This is true of the BIOS... if a person can boot off USB,
erase any Deep
Freeze elements from the system, they may actually disable
Deep Freeze.
The answer lies in the BIOS: password protect your BIOS and
assign only C:
as a bootable drive.
On Fri, April 28, 2006 15:44, Andrew Mutch wrote:
- > Robin,
- >
- > I don't think this would address what Bill
suggested. As far as I know,
- > DeepFreeze only protects the computer at the OS
level. That's not
going to
- > stop me if I can get into your computer at boot up
before OS level
- > protections can be enabled.
- >
- > Andrew Mutch
- > Library Systems Technician
- > Waterford Township Public Library
- > Waterford, MI
- >
- >> I submit that the answer is DeepFreeze
(www.faronics.com) which, when
- >> the
- >> PC
- >> is rebooted, will restore it to whatever
condition it was in when frozen
- >> -
- >> NO MATTER WHAT the user did to it in the
meantime.
- >>
- >> -----Original Message-----
- >> From: web4lib-bounces webjunction.org
- >> [mailto:web4lib-bounceswebjunction.org] On Behalf
Of Drew, Bill
- >> Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 2:26 PM
- >> To: Thomas Dowling; web4libwebjunction.org
- >> Subject: RE: [Web4lib] Disable USB drives on
public computers
- >>
- >> Or I might want to reboot your computer from my
USB drive with my own
- >> operating system so I could hack into your
computer.
- >>
- >> Wilfred (Bill) Drew
- >> E-mail: mailto:drewwemorrisville.edu
- >> AOL Instant Messenger:BillDrew4
- >> "They that can give up essential liberty to
obtain a little temporary
- >> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
(Benjamin Franklin)
- >>
- >>
- >>> -----Original Message-----
- >>> From: web4lib-bounceswebjunction.org
- >>> [mailto:web4lib-bounceswebjunction.org] On Behalf
Of Thomas Dowling
- >>> Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 3:23 PM
- >>> To: web4libwebjunction.org
- >>> Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Disable USB drives on
public computers
- >>>
- >>> On 4/28/2006 3:11 PM,
travelinlibrarian.8248287bloglines.com wrote:
- >>>
- >>> > O.k. I'll bite. What do you have on a
public computer that
- >>> you don't want
- >>> > someone copying to a USB drive. Further,
as a patron, I
- >>> want to run my portable
- >>> > Firefox and would be suitably upset if
you didn't let me...
- >>>
- >>> Hear, hear!
- >>> Or maybe I just want to save my search
results without paying
- >>> a dollar a
- >>> page for color printing...
- >>>
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