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From: herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Password program. Where ?
Message-ID: <1724.272e8961@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com>
Date: 31 Oct 90 13:20:48 GMT
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> 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
>>when the machine is powered on.
>>
> 
Golden Bow something company has some software with a name that
starts with V that I hate because it is tolerably effective at
doing what you describe.  

My client had a cad package that was shipped with this protection
and he had me making some change in his config.sys.  When I made
the hard disk unbootable I grabbed the nearest copy of the DOS
distribution and tried to fix things.  The hard disk was two (or
ten) megabytes and there was nothing there!

I expect the thing is penetrable, but the easiest way to penetrate
it is to compromise the password.

Golden Bow advertises here and there.  You should be able to find them.
(They're not in the Byte that came today.)

dan herrick
herrickd@astro.pc.ab.com