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From: jal@ee.rochester.edu (John Lefor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Preventing Floppy Boots
Message-ID: <1989Aug15.183532.27998@ee.rochester.edu>
Date: 15 Aug 89 18:35:32 GMT
Reply-To: jal@ee.rochester.edu
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Organization: University of Rochester Dept. of Electrical Engineering
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A friend of mine wants to write a program that would provide some
small security by either preventing people from booting off a 
floppy drive or by making the information on the hard-drive unusable
if the system is booted off the floppy.

This is for DOS and cannot involve significant hardware (like
burning ROMS, cutting wires, etc).  Any thoughts would be appreciated.



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John Lefor    	University of Rochester		Dept of E. Engineering
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