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In article <NJW.93Jan25100419@bambam.cs.city.ac.uk>, njw@cs.city.ac.uk (Nick Williams) writes:
> 
> I had a problem with CCP, tho, which made it fairly useless for me: I
> enabled the "Require Boot Password" thing. Sure enough, it asked for a
> password.  To check this out, I typed in the _incorrect_ password three
> times to see the result.  The machine then booted normally, and the
> boot password was removed permanently.  What?  Well, I dunno, but it
> sure does not add to security.

I'll second this one!

The same happened to me with CCP 1.0, except that I can't remember the
password being removed.  I guess I didn't check.  Anyway, I could type
whatever I want at the password prompt, the PC still booted.  I have not
tried the update version, as the password facility in Stacker 3.0 gives
me the protection I need.

What's worse, I e-mailed mcaffee directly, without getting a hint of a
reply.  Also, Timo Salmi was kind enough to forward my previous post
about this to them...  still no result.

 
> Nick
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Robert Schmidt
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