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From: doron@oboe.cs.cornell.edu (Leor Doron)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: IBM Protection Software
Keywords: MS/DOS security password
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Date: 23 Jan 91 02:01:23 GMT
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In article <1991Jan16.195045.8126@chinet.chi.il.us> ignatz@chinet.chi.il.us (Dave Ihnat) writes:
>If you're looking at security systems, Lattice sells a package called
>Secret Disk.  This works both on stand-alone and networked systems, and
>provides two levels of encryption (proprietary fast, and DES.)  It works
>by allocating a portion of the hard disk (or, if your needs are modest, I
>suppose you could do a floppy; there's no restriction per se) as a hidden
>file.  This file is a virtual disk, complete with FAT and directory, and
>is fully encrypted and password protected.
 ...
>Finally, the last time I checked it was around $80, which isn't unreasonable.
>This may have changed, since that was over a year ago, however.

For not much more than that (~ $100 mail order), the Norton Utilities 5.0
gives you pretty much the same thing, plus a boatload of other useful stuff.
Worth checking out, esp. if you don't already have a similar mega-utils package
(e.g. Mace, PC Tools, etc.).

--Lee

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