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

Marcus Patino manou69 at hotmail.com
Thu Oct 11 02:16:33 PDT 2001


Actually, I used to use poledit in win95 and it could seriously lock down a 
win95 box - never looked for it in 98.  I enjoyed poledit when it was needed 
- locked in all the setting and you couldn't get thru any of the dos 
backdoor tricks either - anyone know if they kept poledit around?

>From: "Warren Togami" <warren at togami.com>
>Reply-To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau at list.luau.hi.net>
>To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau at list.luau.hi.net>
>Subject: [luau] Re: 3rd party apps which secure MS Windows - such a thing?
>Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 18:27:24 -1000
>
>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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