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Posted by John Doue on May 2, 2005, 10:43 pm
Please log in for more thread options Martin Stausberg wrote:
> mikmas@gmail.com schrieb:
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>> So given that this HD seems like it is pretty much lost, I would like
>> to know if anyone knows how something like this happens? I mean my
>> parents do not mess with BIOS settings, let alone HD passwords. Is
>> there a virus or something like that which can cause this kind of
>> damage? I just don't want something like this to happen again.
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> i have read in recent IT magazines that there is kind a virus going
> around which sets a password on disks where this feature is not locked.
> because this passwords are set by coincidence you can throw away the
> disk. you would spend hundreds of dollars just to recover the files by
> sending it to a specialized data recovery service.
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> on some HD there is a possibility to lock this password feature, so when
> buying a new HD for your parents laptop turn the password feature off.
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> regards
> Martin
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My German is a bit limited but this URL
http://www.heise.de/ct/ftp/projekte/atasecurity/windows.shtml appears to
be very interesting. The first program listed apparently can adjust the
noise from the HD (acoustic management; I would not mess with this, but
....), display its security settings and lock them. The second appears to
be used to autmotically lock the HD security settings at boot up and on
wake-up after standby so that they cannot be changed by a virus.
If anybody has some experience of these programs, I would be glad to
read from them. I am not sure I want to test them without further info.
--
John Doue
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