Win98se security freeware

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Ray Wesley Kinserlow Jr.

I am trying to keep someone from booting up my home computer. The
resident password/security in Win98se doesn't seem to hack it. The
screensaver password seems to work well. Does anyone know of any
security freeware for a Win98se system?

Ray Wesley Kinserlow Jr.
Lubbock, Texas
rkinserlow at cox dot net
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Ray said:
I am trying to keep someone from booting up my home computer. The
resident password/security in Win98se doesn't seem to hack it. The
screensaver password seems to work well. Does anyone know of any
security freeware for a Win98se system?
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You should enable pw protection in the BIOS.

And put Black Screen in your startup folder

http://www.rjlsoftware.com/software/security/black/default.shtml

Black Screen is very good. Make sure you know how it works before
enabling it. :-)
 
You should enable pw protection in the BIOS.

And put Black Screen in your startup folder

http://www.rjlsoftware.com/software/security/black/default.shtml

Black Screen is very good. Make sure you know how it works before
enabling it. :-)
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Thanks for the reply. The BIOS password which I knew about but had
overlooked is really what I need since no one I know would be capable
of getting around it. It won't allow booting from a floppy or a CD as
well as the hard drive. In fact the only way to get to the data on
the hard drive would be to take the drive out of the machine and put
it another machine which seems like overkill to get at our small
accounts. Perhaps the BIOS chips could popped out and altered but
this is far beyond the ken of the people we know casually or
familiarly. I will look into "Black Screen" though and see what it
has to offer. Thanks.

Ray Wesley Kinserlow Jr.
Lubbock, Texas
rkinserlow at cox dot net
homepage: www.members.cox.net/rkinserlow
webmaster: www.d16acbl.org/U197/index.html
 
Ray Wesley said:
Thanks for the reply. The BIOS password which I knew about but had
overlooked is really what I need since no one I know would be capable
of getting around it. It won't allow booting from a floppy or a CD as
well as the hard drive. In fact the only way to get to the data on
the hard drive would be to take the drive out of the machine and put
it another machine which seems like overkill to get at our small
accounts.
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My god man...

If you're that paranoid about security, why are you still using Windows
98?
 
On that special day, Conor, ([email protected]) said...
If you're that paranoid about security, why are you still using Windows
98?
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Well, the "safest Windows" ever, is by now the mostz attacked by worms,
trojans, adware, spyware and whatnot, while Win98 went down way below
the radar of those malware programmers; no one bothers to "invent"
something for such a minority. Today, surfing with Win98 and a browser
different from IE, is much safer than going on the net with XP
(especially unpatched; you don't even need a browser or mail program, to
be infected within minutes).

I can understand him in some way.


Gabriele "still waiting for a safe XP, before I register with MS" Neukam

(e-mail address removed)
 
Well, the "safest Windows" ever, is by now the mostz attacked by worms,
trojans, adware, spyware and whatnot, while Win98 went down way below
the radar of those malware programmers; no one bothers to "invent"
something for such a minority. Today, surfing with Win98 and a browser
different from IE, is much safer than going on the net with XP
(especially unpatched; you don't even need a browser or mail program, to
be infected within minutes).
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I don't quarrel with what you say about Windows 98 but I think you
grossly overstate the case with regard to Windows XP. My XP system is
vintage 2001. I gave up downloading patches in early 2002. According
to your belief, I should be waging a daily war against malicious
intrusions. The only one I've seen is one that I ran through my own
inattention a couple of years ago.

I wouldn't suggest that it is the "safest Windows ever" but on the
other hand I would say that it's little, if any, worse than the rest.
They've all been built with an atrocious disregard for elementary
security. There are varying degrees of precaution that we've all
learned to apply over the years and that's where such security as we
have comes from. None of us is impregnable to attack; anyone who
believes they are is misguided. Unless you're running a wide open
system (as regrettably many new users do) the risks - XP or otherwise
- are not as great as you suggest, however.
 
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