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- From: stuarta@syd.dms.CSIRO.AU (Stuart Andrews)
- Subject: Re: password software
- Message-ID: <BzLot9.LF0@syd.dms.CSIRO.AU>
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- Organization: CSIRO Division of Mathematics and Statistics, Australia
- References: <767@elli.une.edu.au>
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 08:27:08 GMT
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- In article <767@elli.une.edu.au> ntas@elli.une.edu.au (Northern Tasmania OLAC) writes:
- >
- >In "aus.computers.ibm-pc", psypp@lure wrote:-
- >>Does anyone know if there is any public domain software
- >>that at bootup time will allow you into your PC only with
- >>a password?
- >Unfortunately any computer-literate user knows that by using ^C they can
- >abort
- >autooexec.bat and do what they like. Perhaps somebody has a solution to
- >this
- >problem.
-
- I think I mentioned it before, but I'll again anyhow... there is a program
- called FOXYLOCS written by a guy somebody Fox in Willoughby available on
- various diap-up bulletin boards around the traps. It is on (amongst others)
- Jennifer Allen's "Paragon BBS" in Sydney on (02) 597 7477.
-
- I d/l this program a few weeks back and had a read of the documentation. It
- looked pretty solid. Apparently writes something into the disk that is
- read before boot up. Protects the first bootable partition. It came with
- all kinds of heavy warnings about being careful and making notes of passwords
- etc so I guess he means business. It looked so secure I wasn't game to
- test-install in on my PC! (Besides, I have password on boot in the BIOS).
-
- stuartb
-
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