Re: Boot protection

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From: Torbj|rn Lindgren
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 18:43

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>Thus spoke the keyboard of mylai@cs.uh.edu (Ming-Yung Lai):
>> Hi, can someone tell me where to get some MSDOS programs that can prevent
>> someone from booting my PC? (like PASSWORD protection.) Thank you.
>
>I'm shure you will find a program that will ask for a password when your
>PC boot. But all I need to bypass it is a floppy disk to boot from...

It is possible to manipulate the boot-record so that the hard-disk
won't be there if you don't boot from the hard-disk. It is of course
still possible to access the hard-disk but you must know exactly what
to do to be able to break it.

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From: tl@etek.chalmers.se (Torbj|rn Lindgren)
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Date: 28 Oct 92 18:43:35 GMT
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