MICROSOFT PRIVATE FOLDER

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i just installed Private folder. It asked me to restart to finish
installation. i'm running XP sp2. Once i restarted, it pops up screen stating
that windows shut down improperly and to choose method to start up (safe
mode, safe mode with command prompt, using last known config, etc...). all
methods just loop the startup process. is there a fix i can burn on cd or put
on floppy to get windows to start up without having to recover whole system
and losing my data? Please advise
 
RUIZ1972 said:
i just installed Private folder. It asked me to restart to finish
installation. i'm running XP sp2. Once i restarted, it pops up screen
stating that windows shut down improperly and to choose method to start up
(safe mode, safe mode with command prompt, using last known config,
etc...). all methods just loop the startup process. is there a fix i can
burn on cd or put on floppy to get windows to start up without having to
recover whole system and losing my data? Please advise
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Ah! The first post about problems with the new Private Folder. I wondered
how long it would take. Is there a phone number on the download page? I
would contact MS on this one. I don't know if even the live-on-the-edge
people I know who like to test stuff have tried Private Folder yet.

Malke
 
Looks like another good example of the need for disk/volume
imaging. I tried it (MPF) and rolled back to a pre MPF image. I'm
suspicious of most Digital Rights Management code - even the self
inflicted kind.

If I didn't keep customer data records, many of my customers might
not be able to login to Windows or connect a wireless access point
without a phone call that begins with "Do you know my..................."
 
It (WPF) was officially pulled, due to customer (IT admin) feedback.
I read a blurb about it on one of the Tech news sites this afternoon.
 
Tom said:
Thanks for the link.
What a joke ;-)

Tom
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http://www.betanews.com/article/Microsoft_Withdraws_Private_Folder_App/1152917352

Yeah, I got the news in a mailing list after I read your posts. There are
plenty of other third-party apps that will do this, but this was aimed
squarely at the very people who would mess it up the most. If someone can
figure out True Crypt or the like, then they are probably able to handle
using encryption and not forgetting their password. But for regular end
users - well, just look at all the posts about losing encrypted files. This
was just going to add to those.

Malke
 
http://www.betanews.com/article/Microsoft_Withdraws_Private_Folder_App/1152917352
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Too funny! The world's largest software company sure does seem to have a
hard time getting things right.

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Is this a modern day equivalent of a Nazi youth rally?:

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Kerry Brown said:
It's still available by a direct link to the download.
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I gather this claims to "hide" the imformation from the hard drive? Does
this employ root kit technology then?
 
The so-called "Private Folder" is a trojan horse from Microsoft attempting
to setup stupid people to put them in harm's way by misleading them into
thinking they have a secure folder. Most people don't read the "fine print"
but the documents that come with the download clearly state if the phoney
secured folder is copied to another disk or media the data can be read by
anybody.

<%= Clinton Gallagher
NET csgallagher AT metromilwaukee.com
URL http://www.metromilwaukee.com/clintongallagher/
 
That is the way most encryption works. If you copy data out of the encrypted
folder/container/media to a non-encypted folder/container/media then it is
saved in a decrypted form. You have to have the appropriate credentials to
copy it. With some encryption schemes you could encrypt the copy of the data
as well. With Private Folder apparantly you can't. It only encypts what is
in the folder. I think the name of the product would be a clue that this is
the way it works. Inside the Private Folder your data is private. Outside
it, it is not.
 
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