Re: A83: Help

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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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