Some users have recently had their accounts hijacked. It seems that the now defunct EVGA forums might have compromised your password there and seems many are using the same PW here. We would suggest you UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD and TURN ON 2FA for your account here to further secure it. None of the compromised accounts had 2FA turned on.
Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.
Nice answer Kumquat. Public Private key encryption is usually 128 bit which means that in order to break it by a brute force attack it would 2 to the power of 128 possibilities. That number is huge. With current computing power still a thousands of years to bet through every key.
If it is just a disabled computer account you should be able to just delete it out of U&C, and make sure all DNS entries are deleted. The M$ KB 216498 article is really good.
When you attempted to seize the FSMO roles where you using EA credentials? If you had anything less than this you can only retrieve three of the five. It might still be possible with an EA account to seize the other two roles from the DIT.
If the object was not gracefully removed from the enviroment, a metadata cleanup will be needed to remove the object from AD.
Edit: I asked a few people that I work with and they confirmed that a meta cleanup was the only viable answer. If the object is in the enviroment and cant be...
Before I took my break, I was mainly into FPS, but I want a different kind of experience from gaming. FPS have started to get old for me. Maybe after more time away from them it wont be as bad.
The last game I really played before I started my little break from gamming was BF2. I tried to play it last night and just couldnt get back into it. I need something else to play probably not a FPS due to thats what I had been playing a majority of the time. What are some good choices for...