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dahls@fhydra.dnet.unit.no (Joern Yngve Dahl-Stamnes) writes:

> 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...

You would need much more, depending on the protection used and on what
you want to do. If you want to READ the hard disk, the user just needs
to use an encrypted partition and you are simply out of luck. (Well,
it is still possible to mount a password-stealing attack, involving
viruses, but this is quite difficult.) If you want to DESTROY the
disk, then indeed booting from a diskette is suficient. If you can
boot from a diskette, of course - there are protections (relying on
bugs in DOS) that modify the boot sectors of the hard disk in such a
way, that DOS just hangs when you try to boot from a floppy... Of
course, it can be bypassed, but you'll need to write your own boot
sector and use a special floppy...

Regards,
Vesselin
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