Re: Security and dual booting Mac

Hi Bill,

A dual boot machine, IMHO, is not very secure for any important data as
booting into OS 9 will by pass the built-in security of OS X.
I used to use a product called On Guard from Power On Software when I had
OS 9 on some of my machines. It had some bugs in it, but overall I found
it to be effective enough to safely secure my Macs. However, I did not
have OS X running on these machines either. My OS X machines now only have OS X
and Classic is not enabled.

You can check out the On Guard website at:
http://www.poweronsoftware.com/products/onGuard/

Another site that might be helpful is:
http://www.bombich.com/software/shadowclassic.html

This may or may not have the funcionality that you want.

I copied MAGNET users on this as someone else may have other suggestions
and comments.

Hope this helps!

Thanks,

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On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, International & Area Studies Computer Support wrote:

> Hello
> Any thoughts on the security considerations for a dual booting
> Macintosh? A user has a G4 running OS 9 and OS X. I don't know why they
> opted for a dual boot rather than a straight upgrade-I think they were in
> the middle of a project and wanted to be able to go back a step if need
> be. Currently the computer is running smoothly. If I take the data off
> and rebuild it as a single OS computer, the unit has to pay for it; they
> haven't got a lot of $$.
> So, how secure is the dual booting system?
> Thanks
> Bill Gross
>
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