Re: password protect a folder

From: Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] (MillyS_at_donteventhinkaboutmailingmemvps.org)
Date: 12/20/04 

Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 17:48:37 -0800

I am sorry - but your post makes no sense. If English is a second language,
I apologize for this, but you need to understand and use basic grammar. If
you don't know the meaning of a word or what word to use, get a good
Dictionary/Thesaurus and use it. For example "If the users cannot do
nothing" is a double negative and confuses the rest of your point.

The second paragraph of your post is just as ambiguous.

As for the third paragraph, I have no clue what it is you are talking about.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, Crouchie1998 asked:

| So, if the users cannot do nothing then the basic operating system
| secirity surely is enough because I doubt if all the users a fully
| blown hackers.
|
| Yes, there are many password crackers out there which can be found
| searching New Order (security search engine), but all this is not
| really helping the user
|
| Also, I cannot see where Outlook will come it much use to the user as
| a security option.
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| Oh, and your program for reading .pst files? You still have to open
|| the file first, and if passworded, you must provide the password.
|| There are password crackers out there (one free and programmed by
|| Microsoft but the password cracking is an unintended consequence of
|| the program) but why go through all that trouble? Just hack the
|| d*mn box and own it - use it for what you like.
||
|| The bottom line here is that there are layers of security, like an
|| onion. How many you are willing to go through (and consequently try
|| to crack) is entirely up to you. Most people will find that a
|| couple of simple precautions are all that is necessary unless you
|| are truly paranoid or have such sensitive information on your
|| machine that it should never be internet facing.
||
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
|| the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my
|| personal account will be deleted without reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, Crouchie1998 asked:
||
||| But if all users are using the same user account then encrypting
||| files using the operating system isn't any good. I would suggest PGP
|||
||| With using the 'pst' idea like the Outlook MVP person suggested
||| isn't
||| a good idea when you can download pst viewers like this one:
|||
||| http://www.mailnavigator.com/reading_ms_outlook_pst_files.html
|||
||| Makes your data very insecure, doesn't it?
|||
||| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|||
|||| If you are using NTFS on Windows XP, you can encrypt specific files
|||| and the security is excellent, unless someone is determined to get
|||| into that file.
||||
|||| Perhaps it would be better to back up and ask what type of file are
|||| you trying to protect? If a .pst file, there is a built-in method
|||| to do this. If it is a document, then tell us what program created
|||| the document as all Office programs offer password protection for
|||| specific documents.
||||
|||| If a file system folder, then you are better off asking in a group
|||| that supports your OS.
||||
||||
|||| --
|||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||||
|||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due
|||| to the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my
|||| personal account will be deleted without reading.
||||
|||| After furious head scratching, Crouchie1998 asked:
||||
||||| On the local machine it isn't possible if someone has
||||| administration rights because they could bypass the security.
||||| Although, you can download specific programs that will do the job
||||| for you. How good
||||| they are is anyone's guess.
|||||
||||| If the other users don't have admin rights then they won't be able
||||| to get into another users files anyway if they use Windows
||||| NT/2000, but
||||| its easy to bypass the lapse in security for Windows XP because
||||| Windows XP mainly uses plain text passwords
|||||
|||||
||||| "Me" wrote:
|||||
||||||
|||||| "APT" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
|||||| news:16ee01c4e592$698d2460$a601280a@phx.gbl...
||||||| Hi! Everyone
|||||||
||||||| Is there a way to password protect a folder (not all
||||||| folders) so that files contained therein are only
||||||| accessible to authorized people?
|||||||
||||||| Thanks.
||||||
|||||| Depends on the OS and disk format.
|||||| Try posting to a relevant OS news group.

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