For your own safety, please read all of this document before using Prophylaxis Plus. (PP)
Prophylaxis Plus is a program that forces the user to enter a password whenever the Mac is turned on. The only way that I have found to bypass PP is to start from a different System file, such as that on a System disk.
To install Prophylaxis Plus, simply double click on the Install application, and follow the prompts. From then on, whenever you start up your Mac, you must enter the password and press return. To change the password, enter your old password without pressing return and click on “Change Password”. Type your new password, and then press return.
If you should happen to forget your password, or if your Mac crashes every time you boot after installation of Prophylaxis Plus, boot your Mac from a System floppy, (e.g. the Disk Tools disk) run the Install application, and click on “Remove”. PP will inform you that it isn’t installed. Click on “Select”, and then open the System file on your hard drive. This will remove PP from that file. If you wish to re-install it, restart your computer from your hard drive and use the Install utility again.
If you have decided that Prophylaxis Plus is not for you, start your Mac from the hard drive that PP is installed on, run the Install application, and click on “Remove”. This will automatically remove all of the resources that were installed by the Installer.
If you like the idea of Prophylaxis Plus, but don’t like the fact that you need a System floppy and the Install application to regain control of your computer if you lost your password, check out Prophylaxis, which is a System extension that does the same thing as this, but can be bypassed by disabling extensions at startup.
Prophylaxis Plus is ShareWare. If you use it, send $5 to:
Trevden Sherzell
130 North Country Road
Shoreham, NY, 11786-1722
Also, feel free to send me suggestions on this program, any other program of mine, or ideas for future programs to one of the addresses at the end of this file. Thanks.
PLEASE! If you find Prophylaxis Plus useful, can’t you spare $5? C’mon. You’re helping a 13-year-old (me) through life! And I have to pay my own America Online bill! :) (By the way, if you’re a kid, (younger than 14 or 15) feel free to use this program without having to pay me. I know your situation! :) The more response I get, the more incentive I’ll have to keep programming. If you have an idea for a nifty program, send me mail!
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/ revden
Mail addresses:
(In order of preference)
America Online: Trevden
Internet: trevden@aol.com
US Mail: 130 North Country Road, Shoreham, NY, 11786-1722
