OK. THIS IS WAY URGENT!! HOW DO I RESET MY ADMINISTRATOR PASSWORD ON MY MACBOOK WITHOUT KNOWING IT??!!?

Question

ok.. HOW DO I RESET MY ADMINISTRATOR PASSWORD WITHOUT KNOWING MY PASSWORD?! i dont even remember putting an administrator password on my mac. but i really need it! i cant download anything!!!



please help me!!! i will vote for a best answer!!!!

Answer 1

You didn't ! This is the work of a malware. Some kind of malware installed itself on your computer. It took advantage of the fact the administrator account was not password-protected. The administrator's privileges were taken away from you by a distant pirate, causing you not to be able to disable the malware. There are 2 solutions:

1- reinstall the os from scratch; make sure in that case you back-up your stuff before;

2- have a qualified technician clean-up your hard drive and restore the administrator's rights. If he is not really very qualified, he might just resort to solution #1 himself.

Just doing an anti-virus scan is not enough. It will clean-up the malware, but it won't restore the administrator's rights.

Answer 2

Ignore the doomsayers, if you don't know your password, you can't install any of the 6 Mac trojans out there.

When you first purchased your MacBook and you first turned it on, as part of your setting it up, your MacBook asked you for a password to use. That is your administrator's password. If you don't remember it, you can try some wild guesses about 5 times. Your MacBook will then tell you the "hint" you entered to help you remember your password. If you still don't remember it, then insert the original MacOs X DVD that came with your MacBook. Do a restart holding down the "c" key. When the MacBook starts up go to your system preferences, accounts, and you will see the name of the admin account and you can change the password there. Write the new one down. You need it to update your software and install new programs.

Answer 3

Step a million a) if the disk is in fat 32 format then boot form ninety 8 Boot the then STEP 2 b) if disk is in Ntfs formast attact the tricky rigidity to a diverse pc with secondar7y and boot the pc from regular working device must be above residing house windows 2000 Step 2 have been given to residing house windows/system32/config Step 3 delete the sam data on the folder boot the pc with the orignal disk.

Answer 4

---are u the only one using ur computer --and ur download site might have put a keylogger on one of ur downloads i'd take it to a tech and see what ur problem

or now i don't know much about apples OSX but do u have a safe mode like windows

if u do than get into that setting with internet connection and down load clam for macintosh and see if u have a virus--it is free antivirus

let me check do see what else is out there u can use

here are 3 things u can use ------ cerberus

-looks for trojans attached to download files

zebra looks for trojans

and clam



and please stop using caps when u ask a question we are not blind--thanks