Pureftp manager changed my admin account

I downloaded this piece of software called pureftp manager and install it.
It changed my os x admin user name and password.
The user is now changed to "ftp virtual user" and I don't know the password.
I don't have other admin account.
What can I do?

The pureftp manager was downloaded as an open sourced software and I didn't write to ask the developer.
I ended up reformating my mba 2011.
I knew my user name was changed because before I logged out of the os, I went to user and group in system preference and noticed the user name was changed to FTP Virtual user or something like that, ad when I tried to change the name back, it prompted me to enter the password and I inputted my original password and it didn't work.
I don't know if this was because that my user name was in Chinese and the developer being an western language user, could he have neglected when coding the unicode issue and deleted/changed the user name when it was trying to add a new ftp user. That was a wild guess.
Because most users reported no problem on the forum, I had the problem and happened to use chinese in mac.

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OS: OS X Mountain Lion.
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When I try to change it in the Terminal, it just echoes out "passwd: general failure".

Oh, okay.
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