Rename the "Guest" account as "administrator"?

Hi, friends.
I heard of a method, renaming the *disabled* "guest" account as a dummy
"administrator", in order to transfer the potiential risks.

Would the strategy work well? Would the diabled account remain "diabled"?

Roger
Tue May 03 05:43:44 CDT 2005

This is sort of a modern-day old wives tale, in that once upon
a time, early-mid NT4 and before, there was something to it.
Now, it is just as effective to disable the built-in Administrator
account. As old habits die hard, I still find myself renaming
the built-in Administrator account and then defining a new
account named Administrators, removing it from all "real"
groups (making a dummy group if needed in a domain) and
then disabling the account. But it is really a lot of effort for
nothing real gained.

If you just use strong passwords/passphrases and follow
sane practices (patching, firewall, minimum services, etc.)
then your time is better spent.

--
Roger Abell
Microsoft MVP (Windows Security)
MCSE (W2k3,W2k,Nt4) MCDBA
"cc" <anonymous@disscussion.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi, friends.
> I heard of a method, renaming the *disabled* "guest" account as a dummy
> "administrator", in order to transfer the potiential risks.
>
> Would the strategy work well? Would the diabled account remain "diabled"?
>
>

S
Tue May 03 05:41:44 CDT 2005

This strategy won't work well: trojans etc. will not enumerate the accounts
by name but by SIDs (see http://support.microsoft.com/?id=243330 for
well-known ones).

--
Svyatoslav Pidgorny, MS MVP - Security, MCSE
-= F1 is the key =-

"cc" <anonymous@disscussion.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi, friends.
> I heard of a method, renaming the *disabled* "guest" account as a dummy
> "administrator", in order to transfer the potiential risks.
>
> Would the strategy work well? Would the diabled account remain "diabled"?
>
>