Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!linac!midway!valley From: valley@uchicago (Doug Dougherty) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: IBM Protection Software Message-ID: Date: 6 Jan 91 20:43:00 GMT References: <1990Dec21.094412.5704@ericsson.se> <6865@suned1.Nswses.Navy.MIL> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: University of Chicago Lines: 17 lev@suned1.Nswses.Navy.MIL (Lloyd E Vancil) writes: >In article system@syzzle.UUCP (SYSTEM 0PERATOR) writes: >> There is a program out called fastlock (shareware) which replaces the >>boot sector of a hard disk, and even if booted from floppy, the hard >>disk cannot be accessed! I since it changes the boot sector, dos >>gives an error when trying to access the hard disk (I believe it says >>Invalid Boot Sector, or Invalid Media Type) But it does work. >So dick dastardly comes in keyboard in one hand and dos disk in the other, >Boots your machine from his dos disk and types FORMAT C: Actually, D.D. (coincidentally, my initials) would have to use FDISK. But the point is not so much to protect the machine as to protect the data. They can have the machine, but they can only use the hard disk by deleting all of your stuff. Or, to put it another way, at least if you've been violated, you will know that it has occurred.