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Re: A83: Help


What is this you speak of?? I think the Mac's PRAM is superior to the PCs BIOS.
Yes you can get around the Password but at least it will keep people without a
screwdriver out of your system (sometimes...)

I don't have any password protection on my Hard Drive, what protection software
do you use? (of course there is always the
encrypt-the-files--and-put-them-on-a-disk-and-bury-it-somewhere-safe routine!
;-) )

More later,
Nick

Grant Stockly wrote:

> 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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