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From: jfbruno@rodan.acs.syr.edu (John Bruno)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Write protect for hard drive
Keywords: hard drive ibm
Message-ID: <3554@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Date: 29 May 90 20:29:42 GMT
Article-I.D.: rodan.3554
References: <1323@hq.af.mil> <1733@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <1990May29.192755.7817@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Reply-To: jfbruno@rodan.acs.syr.edu (John Bruno)
Organization: Integrated Healthcare Technologies, Inc.
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In article <1990May29.192755.7817@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> georgen@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (G. Ng) writes:
 >In article <1733@krafla.rhi.hi.is> frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason) writes:
 >>Forget about software solutions - they are not 100 % reliable.  There are
 >>many programs out there that claim to be able to write-protect hard disks,
 >>HDSENTRY is an example, but they just don't work.
 >
 >What is it about HDSentry that makes it not 100% reliable?  I've been using
 >it on my PC and it works fine for me.  Do you mean that certain viruses or
 >trojans are able to circumvent HDSentry's protection scheme?  Hmm...
 >-- 
 >George Ng (Univ. of Toronto, Comp Sci)        |"Sure, I would like Canadian
 >HOME: uunet!mnetor!{becker,hybrid}!spocom!gng | winters too - if it weren't
 >WORK: georgen@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca            | for the weather..."  

You can't trust these things because someone can just stick a floppy disk
in drive A: and boot it, thereby overriding your software level protection.

---jb