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    A fascinating story from a guy who knows where the bodies are buried. This basically works like an oracle. Cred Guard returns an opaque blob to LSA. L
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    • #2291216

      Of course, Cred Guard only works on Enterprise Windows. The rest of us don’t get that protection, yet.

      -- rc primak

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      • #2291795

        Dont know where your information came from, but on my VM Windows 2004 Pro, there is Credential guard. I have no oportunity to test it on Home version now.

        credguard

        Interesting story anyway, thanks a lot for that.

        Cached logon is separate for every domain user I think, cause computer somehow remembers imprint (opaque blob) of his last valid password. Every domain user with his own user folder (usually C:Users … ) can logon with his last used password offline. Even if this password is not valid on the domain anymore.

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      • #2291934

        My bad @rc-primak, I mixed two things together – credential guard and credential vault.

        Dell Latitude 3420, Intel Core i7 @ 2.8 GHz, 16GB RAM, W10 22H2 Enterprise

        HAL3000, AMD Athlon 200GE @ 3,4 GHz, 8GB RAM, Fedora 29

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        • #2292398

          Yeah, the Microsoft bafflegab gets pretty difficult to tease out sometimes.

          -- rc primak

    • #2291746

      I’m rarely so very dense as today.

      I have no idea what “Cred Guard returns an opaque blob to LSA.” means.

      Repeat in school English, please.

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      Both tweaked to look, behave and feel like Windows 95
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    • #2291800

      This is not that serious for a hacker to overcome.  Get admin access to install Security Support Provider and defeat that way, keylogger, I am not impressed with any Windows security.  Android is the biggest target now but Microsoft is still up there, lots of exploits and dirty tricks galore.  Don’t let Bill Gates break his own arm patting himself on the back.

       

      I am more agreeable with the guy who pied him after win98 blue screen crash on demo boot.

      • #2292706

        Bill Gates has not been in charge of Microsoft since 2000.

        Let’s please keep the rants in their own section of these forums.

        -- rc primak

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