Re: Restricted access

From: B. Goodman (no@spam.org)
Date: 09/26/02 

From: B. Goodman <no@spam.org>
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 09:11:41 -0400

In article <84f401c2652f$39a63f60$2ae2c90a@phx.gbl>, ndeguru@excite.com
says...
> How do i restrict access to my personal files from other
> noisy users. It seems that even if i have a password to
> log on into the computer in question. My son came up and
> put in his own user id and password and gain access to
> folders he was not suposse to look into. I understand any
> body can turn in my computer and either create a profile
> or hit the cancel when the log on into windows pop up,
> they are in?. Now how can that be?. Is there any way i can
> keep that from happening? Others seeing my personal files,
> were should i keep files i don't want them to see?. The
> computer i'm talking about is running windows 98 SE, and i
> have a second computer networking to it. Which by the way
> i have paswords to read and to write from that second
> computer to my main computer. But what they did was they
> shut off and booted my main computer and by pass my login
> either hitting cancel at loging or using his username and
> password from the secondary computer. Can i set up my main
> computer as an administrator computer only? is that
> posible?. Thank you in advance...
>
>
>
Win 95, 98, ME were intended as HOME operating systems and therefore
really don't have what you might call "security features". I think you
would need a third-party program to encrypt files to minimize snooping.
You might consider a USB key chain storage device. I think they can
hold up to 128 MB and you can take them with you when you go.

Anything beyond that would require Windows XP, probably Pro rather than
Home edition. And you'd need to run NTFS. Complexity level would
increase quite a bit, but it could be done.

Just some thoughts. There are probably many other approaches. Be VERY
careful if you DO encrypt your files. And good encryption program can
keep YOU from your own data if you forget your password or fail to back
up your encryption keys.

Good luck.

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