Gail Shaw wrote:
> "Orchid XP v7" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
> news:47617e7a$1@news.povray.org...
>> As I understand it, anybody who can guess what your admin password is
>> can have unlimited access to your PC via RPC. Nice...>
> 
> Anyone who's guessed your admin password owns your machine regardless.
> 
> del \\machine\c$\*.* /S

Which, as I understand it, only works because RPC is enabled.

If you can't remotely talk to the machine, you can't do anything to it.

> And that's not even considering them walking up to the machine (if its not a
> server) and loging in. Or if it is a server, usign remote desktop/terminal
> services
> 
> Strong admin password, perhaps?

I was thinking more of the millions of people who have PCs in their 
homes, probably with a blank or default admin password, who have no idea 
that random people on the Internet can use that password to remotely do 
stuff to it.

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