re: I need to prevent users from making changes, w98 lockdown
Monday, October 1, 2007 at 3:21 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by curt
(2 messages posted)
Thanx for your replies, but *nix is not an option in this case nor is hard core security
an issue. We are trying to teach kids typing and some basic computer skills and need
an MS environment. I just need to stop them from hosing the environment they're supposed
to be learning.
I know it's possible, my previous employer used W98 systems for time clocks and had
it tamper proof.
On Monday, October 1, 2007 at 9:53 am, gewg_ wrote:
>|I need to secure several W98SE PC's from end users
>|deleting/installing software, changing settings and password protect shutdown,
etc.
>| curt
>|
>Anything DOS-based has pretty rotten "security".
>You can *improve* the miserable default-install "security" a bit.
>cache of http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1186790880
>++poledit+NoLogon+System.Policy.Editor
>
>|[...]TweakUI[...]
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>UI == User Interface == eye candy / convenience (NOT security)
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>|[...]do I need some other software?
>|
>An NT-based OS is marginally better--but the "security" of anything Micros~1 produces
>can easily be defeated with a bootable Linux CD / thumbdrive.
>
>If you are looking for REAL security,
>you are going to have to break the M$ mindset and get something UNIX-based.
>(Security-wise, an out-of-the-box Ubuntu Linux install beats anything MSFT ever
devised
>--even after Windoze has been "thoroughly" tweaked.)
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