Re: Alternatives to McAfee PGP?
From: Jeremy Bishop (requiem@org.praetor)Date: 02/11/02
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From: Jeremy Bishop <requiem@org.praetor> Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 12:45:32 -0800
Mike spake thus:
> Hello, all:
>
> I've just spent a day trying - and failing - to recover data off a
> hard drive after installing McAfee PGP 7.0 on a Windows NT 4.0
> workstation used for banking apps. I followed the installation steps,
> rebooted, and that was the end of the game. Couldn't log in (it just
> froze), couldn't do a Windows NT repair, couldn't even boot another PC
> with this hard drive as a slave to try to extract data. Bye-bye
> financial transactions! Kind of ironic given that PGP is supposed to
> protect data.
That's... impressive. You do have backups, right?
(If not, attempt using a program like GetDataBack NTFS. When NTFS
partitions get hosed, that's the easiest way to save your files.)
> At any rate, can anyone recommend a quality PGP implementation that
> will work reliably on Windows NT 4.0 and 2000? I don't want to give
> the McAfee version another opportunity to hose any more hard drives.
I have had no problem with 6.5.8 on NT 4 or 2000.
-- Give a man fire, he'll be warm for a few hours. Set a man on fire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
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