Talk about keeping you up at night... Free "Break-in" Utilities

Free Break-in Tools

"Many free (or nearly free) break-in tools are readily available on the Internet. You can easily find these utilities by searching the Internet with the keywords break-in tools.

You should take a quick look at the free break-in utilities for two reasons:
1. The quantity, general availability, and feature set of these tools should give you a wake-up call to physically secure your servers and defend against their potential use in your environment.

2. You might find some of these tools useful and wat to try them in a test environment.
Here's a sampling of free tools that will probably keep you awake at night: ..."

This post references five free utilities (well four with working URL's) that could help you break into Windows PC's (err... um... I mean, recover lost admin passwords... um... yeah).

Advanced Windows Password Recovery, Austrumi, Emergency Boot CD, Offline NT Password & Registry Editor, XP Password Cracker

I've used the Emergency Boot CD a number of times and it has always worked well for me.

I've not seen some of the other ones before... I'll have to check them out next time.