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

[Nelson Garcia]

Since we are talking about a laptop, what type of security are you most
concerned with? Intrusion or local users tampering with the computer?

There are some third party products that will provide some security against
tampering. However, as long as you have a FAT filesystem and the Win9x OS
you won't be very secure.  There was a shareware utility that I tried once
called "Robert's Shutdown", it might still be around (use at your own risk).
If you use it together with the policy editor, you could restrict many of
the unsecure features of Win9x. There was a guide on the web for how to do
this.

Hope that helps,
Nelson


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Warren Togami [mailto:warren at togami.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 6:27 PM
> To: Linux & Unix Advocates & Users
> Subject: [luau] Re: 3rd party apps which secure MS Windows - such a
> thing?
>
>
> 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.
> >
>
>
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