Rebooting the machine will restore the original contents of Windows kernel and its corresponding authentication procedures.” Kon-Boot modifies the system kernel while it boots, changes are made temporary only. “Kon-Boot is an application which will silently bypass the authentication process of Windows based operating systems (both 32-bit and 64-bit). This is the current description on the Kon-Boot site… Anyways, there was a link at the bottom, so I clicked it and went to the Kon-Boot site. The video was short, and when I normally watch YouTube stuff I click the timeline bar and skip all around the video, so that’s what I did here. He was talking about a program called Kon-Boot. I had typed in “Bypass Windows Login” only to discover a video made by a kid who had to bypass his parental controls, I’m assuming. Considering in “real” life that is one resource I will never consult when it comes to computers, so I went to YouTube.
I began to research as if I knew close to nothing as far as technology jargon was concerned. This eliminated any live boot SAM dumps/hash dumps, remote recovery, and command line tools. The catch here is that I wanted to simulate the average individual that doesn’t research technology, but can. My second topic of interest was bypassing the login.
I had but a BIOS password on the box, but unplugging the CMOS cleared that out, which took about two seconds. Then this thief unassumingly has no computer skills yet needs to get into the eMachine. Nothing.Īnyways I had set out to break this thing and I had a scenario in my head where a thief breaks in and decides stealing the eMachine trumps all other electronics. I wondered to myself, why can’t this happen to me? I let my parents use it, I randomly typed into the DOS prompt, I ran Kazaa, Napster, and the dial-up client of AOL. eMachines subsequently withdrew BIOS version 1.09 from its website.” The failure occurred on all eM350 netbooks on which it was loaded.
“In June 2011 eMachines released BIOS update version 1.09 for the netbook model eM350 which after flashing the BIOS caused the machines to permanently stop functioning (i.e., version 1.09 “bricked”/permanently damaged any eM350 it was installed on). Regardless, here’s a quote on eMachines from the king of credibility, Wikipedia… Any other computer I wanted to have normally died within a year. This computer is an eMachines… I use the present tense as to this day it still sucks dust.