3rd party apps which secure MS Windows - such a thing?

[Warren Togami]

I've seen Fool Proof and two other products that "secure" Win98 being used
at the University.  However, all they do is hide many of the menu options
and disallow regedit access to the registry, but all of this can be easily
bypassed because Windows 9x has no real security.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jesse Manibusan" <jessmani at yahoo.com>
To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau at list.luau.hi.net>
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 6:13 PM
Subject: [luau] 3rd party apps which secure MS Windows - such a thing?


> Does anyone know if such a thing exists: a third-party
> application which allows stronger  security on an MS
> windows based machine?
>
> I would like to find the same type of appplication for my
> Win98 machine.  Unfortunately, I am stuck with Win98 so
> moving up to Linux is not an option.  I could conceivably
> upgrade to Win2000 permanently but under Win2000, my
> laptop's console port is not recognized.  Haven't been able
> to figure out why.
>
> Third-party vendors for the the PalmOS offer such products
> which are add-ons to the unsecure PalmOS and basically
> handle the authentication tasks of the PalmOS instead of
> allowing the PalmOS to do it directly.
>