Windows password hack 1

Windows, the most widely used desktop operating system stores its password as a hash in a file. The file is named as SAM. You can find that file at the location C:\windows\system32\config\SAM. SAM file is not accessible by any user even the administrator. If you try to open this file, you will receive an error message as that file is being used by another program like this.

When a user adds his new password or changes his password to a new one, Windows generates the hash of that new password and stores it in the SAM file. When the user, boots the Windows machine, the process winlogon.exe ( you can see this in task manager ) will prompt him for the password. It generates the hash of the entered password and compares it with the saved hash at the SAM file. If only both are same, the user will be allowed to enter inside.

I found many of the people reading this bolg, looking at this blog. actually i gave just a simple introduction here about hacking windows password. the main dish is inside not here. read also other three articles in this series here. you will surely become a devil to microsoft-windows ;-)