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Advice Please; How to "Quarantine" Hard Drives
Is it really possible to "Quarantine" three system hard drives from a
single hard drive when that hard drive is used for internet related purposes?(The idea is to keep them from from viruses, hacking, ect.). Thanks a lot. Darren Harris Staten Island, New York. |
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I believe in the past I have seen hard drives with a jumper that write
protects a hard drive (SCSI drives ?) Maybe you could go into the bios at startup and disable the IDE controller the drives are connected to. Or put the drives into an external USB case and leave the drive disconnected when not in use. "Darren Harris" wrote in message om... Is it really possible to "Quarantine" three system hard drives from a single hard drive when that hard drive is used for internet related purposes?(The idea is to keep them from from viruses, hacking, ect.). Thanks a lot. Darren Harris Staten Island, New York. |
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Darren Harris wrote:
Is it really possible to "Quarantine" three system hard drives from a single hard drive when that hard drive is used for internet related purposes?(The idea is to keep them from from viruses, hacking, ect.). Thanks a lot. Darren Harris Staten Island, New York. On Linux, you mean? -- The e-mail address in our reply-to line is reversed in an attempt to minimize spam. Our true address is of the form . |
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I'll be using Windows XP. All four drives will be in a single case.
And I really need to be able to access any of the drives on a dime, but will be spending most of the time using drive "C". Basically, what I'm looking for is something simular in principle to the way the "Recycle Bin" works. Data/apps in there cannot be changed. One would have to restore them first. Since those "brains" over at Microsoft will never come up with a secure OS, you'd think that a simple "Quarantine" function would be incorporated into their products. Thanks a lot. Darren Harris Staten ISland, New York. |
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I'll be using Windows XP. All four drives will be in a single case.
And I really need to be able to access any of the drives on a dime, but will be spending most of the time using drive "C". Basically, what I'm looking for is something simular in principle to the way the "Recycle Bin" works. Data/apps in there cannot be changed. One would have to restore them first. Since those "brains" over at Microsoft will never come up with a secure OS, you'd think that a simple "Quarantine" function would be incorporated into their products. Thanks a lot. Darren Harris Staten ISland, New York. |
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I have not personally done what you are trying to do. That said
simply typed in " password protect hard drive " on Google and got a ton of hits. This one looks promising...... http://www.softstack.com/hidedrv.html Hide and Protect Drives will apparently password protect hard drives, floppy drives...... even CD and DVD drives. ( BTW....It's $29.95 ) Let us know if you find something better. Good luck! ================================================== ================== (Darren Harris) wrote in message . com... Is it really possible to "Quarantine" three system hard drives from a single hard drive when that hard drive is used for internet related purposes?(The idea is to keep them from from viruses, hacking, ect.). Thanks a lot. Darren Harris Staten Island, New York. |
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Darren Harris wrote:
I'll be using Windows XP. All four drives will be in a single case. And I really need to be able to access any of the drives on a dime, but will be spending most of the time using drive "C". Basically, what I'm looking for is something simular in principle to the way the "Recycle Bin" works. Data/apps in there cannot be changed. One would have to restore them first. Since those "brains" over at Microsoft will never come up with a secure OS, you'd think that a simple "Quarantine" function would be incorporated into their products. Such a "quarantine" function would be no more reliable than the security of the OS. While you can't call up a file from the recycle bin and edit it with Word someone who knows what he's about should be able to alter the contents regardless--those files aren't really protected in any special manner. If you're running 2K/XP I believe you can set policies on the drives that deny writing to specific users--I know you can do that if you have a domain going just don't recall if it's possible to do it with workstation working standalone. That's fairly robust. _Safest_ bet is to put the files you want to protect on a server that has no Internet access and then use the security features of the OS on that server to prevent writing. That way security is handled independently of anything that happens on your working machine. You can use Linux or BSD on the server if you can't afford Windows Server or if you feel like doing a little "sweet talking" you can probably get a 5 user copy of Netware for Small Business (or whatever they're calling it this week) out of your local Novell authorized reseller--the 5 user is officially free but available only through resellers. Thanks a lot. Darren Harris Staten ISland, New York. -- --John Reply to jclarke at ae tee tee global dot net (was jclarke at eye bee em dot net) |
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Format the drives as NTFS, set the security permissions "Read" for everybody
and "modify" for Administrators. Then, to copy files there, you'll need to be logged as an administrator. Any account will be able to read those files. To make sure the malware won't be able to install on your computer: never work as an administrator or a member of Administrators group. Make your user account "limited user". Then, even some security hole or your own fault will allow some malware install to run, it won't be able to copy anything to the system folders and register itself in the OS. "Darren Harris" wrote in message om... Is it really possible to "Quarantine" three system hard drives from a single hard drive when that hard drive is used for internet related purposes?(The idea is to keep them from from viruses, hacking, ect.). Thanks a lot. Darren Harris Staten Island, New York. |
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