On Monday 03 June 2002 11:39 am, you wrote: > The only way to prevent this is to turn off the booting from CD in bios and
Of course this wouldn't prevent them from booting from a floppy diskette. > password protecting bios, but then, with physical access it is trivial to > kill the bios password (just crack the case and remove the mobo battery for > a minute - bios settings are back to default and accessible without a > password). Or you can use the reset cmos jumper, depending on the mobo. Some of them label it. Or, you can do what I do and use some form of physical security. Myself, I use PerfectSecure(tm) Security System Revision 1.0. It does the trick. At least I haven't had anyone screw with it yet. It's quite effective, actually.
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