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Re: A83: Help



If you people actually did something rather than flood A83 with this absurd thread, then we would all be happier.
Quit acting like children and be mature enough to end this quarrel.

-Harper Maddox
 
jerky@ebicom.net
-----Original Message-----
From: Grant Stockly <gussie@alaska.net>
To: assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org <assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Wednesday, April 15, 1998 6:41 PM
Subject: Re: A83: Help


There are no "Lower-level" bios passwords for IBMs either.  I laugh at any
company that says a home/office computer is secure...

btw, macs have had password protection on hard drives for ages.  And its
better than PCs bios passwords.  When you mount a hard drive, it loads the
driver into memory, and runs it.  You need the password to format, mount,
or do anyting...  Actually, if you have the right tools, and a screwdriver,
you can reformat...

and the program works on SCSI and IDE...

>The closest macs get to a BIOS Password is the new Password Security Control
>Panel that protects entire drives (only on systems with IDE Drives, however)
>and if you forget the password, the only way around it is to reformat the
>drive (and if you wanted the data on the drive then it's pretty useless!)
>There are other utilities that disable the floppy and various things like
>that, but not something as low-level as a BIOS Password.
>
>More later,
>Nick
>
>Trey Jazz wrote:
>
>> i was talking about a bios password (do macs even have those?) , not an av
>> password...but whatever gets the job done i guess
>>
>> >In Mac OS you can easily set it up to have a passowrd at startup.  SAM
>> >scans for unknown viruses and trojan horses.  This program does about the
>> >best job that can be done.  It will verify all operations that are
>> >currently being carried out.  And my OS can protect against trojan
>> >horses.  Not that I'd let one get on my machine, unlike some people...


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