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Subject: Re: Password program. Where ?
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Date: 31 Oct 90 13:49:48 GMT
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In article <1990Oct31.021421.7987@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>, norlin@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Norman Lin) writes:
>lucas@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Brian Lucas) writes:
>
>>In article <90299.144326JFS10@psuvm.psu.edu> JFS10@psuvm.psu.edu (Jonathan Swaby) writes:
>>>I am in search of a password program for my hard drive. I don't want people
>>>to be able to boot with a floppy and gain access to the drive. I don't want
>>>a program that protect just individual, but one that asks for the password

I have been using a program for 4 years or so called VFeature Deluxe. It is 
a partitioning program that allows you to create your own drive table and 
places it in a file that is located in your config.sys. It allows you to 
place a password on your computer so noone can access it. Since it's drive 
table is in a device file (Fixt_Drv.Sys), if you boot from a floppy, you 
will see nothing or garbage on the hard drive. And since you create your 
own drive table, you will be able to use the entire hard drive. This 
doesn't prevent someone from booting from floppy and formatting C:, but it 
will (90%) prevent them from using the data (I say 90% because if you 
create a normal partition size (32M) I think you can still boot to a floppy 
and access C: however I was unable to load OS/2 which has to boot to 
install so ... 90%).

It's put out by Golden Bow and I'm sorry, but I don't have the phone number 
handy.

Also, I remember seeing a program a few years ago that protected your hard 
drive by modifying the partition table. It put garbage in as the first 
partition and the second partition was the DOS one. If you booted from a 
floppy you were unable to access C: (or D: ... ). It also had a screen 
clear function that I could never get to work. I decided that my 
information wasn't important enough to risk someone modifying my partition 
so I couldn't access it. I don't recall the program name, but maybe this 
triggers someone elses memory ( I think it was PC-Protect or something). I 
think it's on one of my BBS tape backups, but maybe not.

Carl Schelin                        | "I wouldn't hurt a fly,
tcs@router.jhuapl.edu               |  but only because they taste funny."