Re: Hard disk protection software

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From: Jerzy Tarasiuk
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 1995 15:26

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>>>>> "D" == Doug McFarlane <dmacfarl@hawk.depaul.edu> writes:

D> In article <95038.153748U12570@uicvm.uic.edu>,
D> Ed Garay  <U12570@uicvm.uic.edu> wrote:
>> Has anyone heard of applications, commercial or otherwise, to protect
>> DOS/Windows system files, some directories etc. from inadvertent corruption?
>> Something like At Ease, MacGuard or Mac Control for the Macintosh.

D> We used Disk Manager, which will create a "Non-DOS" partition that can
D> be tagged as Read Only.  The Disk Manager software doean't actually
D> call it a Non-DOS partition, but a Read/Write partition.
D> Unfortunately, this has 2 drawbacks.

Unfortunately, it has more drawbacks, and I doubt any protecting
software exists: it protects against malicious attempt to modify
some file or directory, it does NOT protect against destruction
which may be caused by any bug in user's program. The protection
is pure illusion to deceive unexperienced people (but it may help
in case computer is accessed by some malicious students).

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From: jt@fuw.edu.pl (Jerzy Tarasiuk)
Subject: Re: Hard disk protection software
In-Reply-To: dmacfarl@hawk.depaul.edu's message of Wed, 8 Feb 1995 16:50:23 GMT
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