July 10th, 2005, 06:45 PM
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| | Mr. Smartypants
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Good Afternoon gang!
I have a friend that needs to keep her son off the computer while she is at work. He is 12 and is finding websites he shouldn't be looking at if you catch my drift. Well, she is taking the power cable with her and he is still getting on. Can anyone suggest a good USB lock she can use? Oh, it has to work with windows 98se.
Thanks!
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July 10th, 2005, 06:56 PM
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| | Spider pig
Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Lincoln City, OR
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Yeah, JMTek or something like that makes a flash drive with software on it that, when you pull it from the computer, it automatically locks it and even a reboot can't get around it. The flash drive itself is overpriced, but I guess it works well.
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July 10th, 2005, 06:57 PM
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| | LARGE AND IN CHARGE
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A USB lock? Never heard of it.
Why not just set a system startup password in the BIOS and have her be the only person who knows it?
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July 10th, 2005, 07:00 PM
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| | Ultimate Member
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Here is a program that I used to secure a pc. It works great, is very difficult to get around and only costs $10. http://posum.com/worklock.html
At one point I used it to drive a computer science student from Purdue crazy. He knew he could get around it but never did. 
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Last edited by elroy : July 10th, 2005 at 07:02 PM.
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July 10th, 2005, 07:04 PM
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| | Mr. Smartypants
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Originally Posted by brandon184 A USB lock? Never heard of it.
Why not just set a system startup password in the BIOS and have her be the only person who knows it? |
Not a bad idea, I just don't know if you can do that with her eMachine. | |
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July 10th, 2005, 07:05 PM
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| | LARGE AND IN CHARGE
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Originally Posted by Detritus Not a bad idea, I just don't know if you can do that with her eMachine. | I've never encountered a computer that you can't do that with. I'd be very surprised if it's not possible. | |
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July 10th, 2005, 07:14 PM
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| | Mr. Smartypants
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Sounds like I have a project for next week. I will give a few of these a shot. | |
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July 10th, 2005, 07:53 PM
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| | where's fargo?
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Originally Posted by Detritus Not a bad idea, I just don't know if you can do that with her eMachine. | I can do it with our old 500Mhz emachine and my grandpa's 2300+ so I would suspect you can. | |
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July 10th, 2005, 08:22 PM
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| | Let's go, Hokies!
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What about setting up a hard drive password? | |
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July 10th, 2005, 08:26 PM
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| | Mr. Smartypants
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Originally Posted by osprey4 What about setting up a hard drive password? |
How do you do that? Excuse my ignorance, but I have never had to worry about this type of security before. | |
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