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U1-09: Hard Disk Utilities ABF Communications Ink $20 #1141 Automated Backup Facility monitors the status of your files and backs them up as required. ABF learns as it goes by recording how often you backup each file. It also lets you specify files, such as program files, that do not need backing up. ABF will work with hard disks or floppies. Backit 3.0 Jarrett, Eric $5 #12099 is a daily back-up program for hard disk systems. It copies without reformatting into the same directories on a floppy as on your hard disk. It cancopy on to multiple floppies. BackWorks The DataWorks, Inc. $29-$31 #3882 is a backup and restore utility. BackWorks allows selective directory backups and restores. It works on networks and across hard drives. BackWorks is fast and completely menu driven. Duplicate File Locator W. S. Ataras Engineering $39 #3470 will locate, view, compare and delete duplicate files no matter where the files reside. It will delete duplicate files in various subdirectories, on network drives, or even in archive files of various formats. Requires 340K. Flexibak Plus Nildram Software ASP $44 #3387 is a hard disk backup system which, after doing the first full backup, does incremental backups to the same disks. This makes it easier to do a full restore, since you do not have to use multiple sets of incremental backup disks. Flexibak alerts you to files missing since the last backup, warns you when you have not been backed for a specified number of days, and compresses files. It will handle multiple (up to 20) hard drives. File-Safe Marcor Enterprises $54 #1853 is an automatic backup utility. It allows you to pre-select directories and files to be backed up and the frequency for each. When included in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file, the system automatically scans a master file of backup schedules and presents only those items needing backup. If none are needed it returns to DOS. Those files needing backup are presented in a menu form with easy selection of parameters along with information about previous backups. ------------------------------- 0602 Hard Disk Backup Utilities Small Programs Disk ------------------------------- Archive is a menu-driven backup utility. It lets you scroll through all your subdirectories and their files, marking them for backing up, and then it backs up the ones you have selected. BACopy (BAC) will copy files to a target disk without overwriting files of the same name that have newer file dates. If a disk gets full, it will prompt you for a new disk. BK is a set of files to automate and track the backing up of your hard disk. BackupMaestro 2.07 (BM) PCX/Delphi Technology Corporation $59 makes backing up your hard disk both fast and easy. It supports all disk formats, including backing up to 1.44meg disks in drive B:. BkBat Goodell, Dan $0 is a set of files which automates the use of PK-Zip to do incremental back-ups of your hard disk. (PK-Zip is a popular archiving program on disk #1705.) BKCK 2.2 Crouch, John E. $15 will give information about files on your hard disk that need backing up. It will check specified paths or files or the entire disk or even multiple drives, or only files changed after a certain date. You can specify the size of the backup disk, from 360K to 1.44M. FBR 1.8 Buerg, Vernon D. $0 is a system of three small programs which perform the backing up and restoring of files. They are similar to the DOS BACKUP/RESTORE utilities except that FBR can only process one directory at a time. It does, however, back up all files in a directory, filling as many backup disks as necessary. It also features the ability to compress files. FRestore (FRESTOR) Clark, Stephen P. $0 restores one or more files from a DOS 3.3 BACKUP without having to go through all the diskettes. HardBack (HARDBAC) Haugeland, John $25 is a hard-disk back-up program designed specifically for backing up one hard disk onto another hard disk (or similar device, such as a Bernoulli drive). The idea is that you could have two hard disks and use one to backup the other. The advantages are that this is much faster (as little as 30 seconds), more reliable and probably cheaper than a tape backup and if your primary drive crashes, you can run from the other hard disk. The disadvantages are that you cannot have off-site backup or "grandfather" backups. HardBack works with "logical" drives, so you can back up from one partition to another on the same physical drive. Any number of subdirectories on either the source or the back-up drive, or both, can be explicitly marked by the user to be ignored by HardBack. KCopy Russell, Kent $0 is a flexible file back-up and copying utility. Options include the following: clear the archive attribute; do not overwrite a file of the same name; format each disk before copying to it; copy only file changed during a specified date range; copy only changed files; copy only if the file is newer than a file of the same name on the target disk; prompt before overwriting; prompt for each file before copying; traverse all subdirectories; copy only files that are already on the target disk (ie: update only); copy all files except those specified; delete files on the target disk before copying. KopyNew Siegel, Glen $0 is a backup program that saves you time by only copying the files which have a later time or date than the same filename on the destination disk. We had several utilities that did this same thing, but this was the best of them. Show (SHOW-GR) Roberts, Glenn F. $? will print out the amount of space the a specified set of files would occupy if copied to a specified drive and the amount of free space currently available on the drive. This is useful for determining if a set of files would fit on a floppy disk. (They may not fit because of different minimum space allocations used by, say, a floppy disk as opposed to a hard disk.) What Tape Back-up? 1.4f (WTB) Babudro, Angel $0 is a tracking system for tape backups. It keeps a record of when backups are made, suggests next tape set to use, and operates tape software. (Not on this disk. Ask for disk #18007.) -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #0602 -------------------------------- ------------------------ 1514 Hard Disk Backup #2 Small Programs Disk ------------------------ AutoSave Biologic Corp. $? is not really a backup utility, but we have included it here because it is designed to safeguard your data. AutoSave is a resident utility that automatically saves the data to disk at regular intervals in whatever program you are using. For example, if you are using 1-2-3, it will automatically save your worksheet; if you are using a word processor, it will save your text file. This protects you from losing hours of work to a power outage or computer lockup. BackStat Ross, Ed $? tells you how many bytes worth of files on your hard disk have not been backed up. Put Backstat at the end of your AUTOEXEC.BAT file to remind you on bootup how files need backing up. Bakcheck (BAKCHEC) Thompson, Glen $? is put in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file with a parameter specifying the number of days you want to go between backups. When that time period has elapsed, BAKCHECK automatically executes a batch file that you have set up to perform a system backup (ie: BakCheck is NOT a backup program itself). Actually, BakCheck could be used to execute ANY program on a scheduled basis, since all it does is call your batch file. Backup Percentage 1.1 (BP) Farrell, P. D. $0 tells you how much of your hard disk is backed up and needs backing up. Dirs 1.1 Whiddon, Richard $4-$10 tells you how many diskettes would be required to copy specified files to a diskette. Optionally, DIRS will also create a BAT file to do the copying, optimized to fill up every disk as much as possible; embed Epson-compatible print commands in the BAT file to print a diskette jacket insert with the contents of the diskette; automatically format the target diskettes as they are inserted; and find only files with the ARCHIVE bit set. FBCPRT will print out a FastBack catalog. Hdrstrip Kageyama, Conrad $? utility to strip the BACKUP header off backed-up files so that they can be accessed normally. LCG/Remind 1.7 (LCG-RMD) Levin Consulting Group $13 reminds you when it is time to back-up the files on your hard disk, and helps automate the process. In addition, it can be used to display information, suggest action, or simply run a program on a regular schedule. Wildcards can be used for date file specification. Backing up can be triggered or prevented based on the size of the files needing backup or matching any specified filename pattern. There is a also a percent-full substitution, LAST day of month and specific week of month triggers, and extended example files. It displays an exit code; and has 4DOS compatibility. MarkMove McCauley, M. L. $0 lets you add new files to a disk or directory with other files already in it and when done, move just the new files to the drive or directory of your choice. Although the stated purpose is for downloading files to a crowded directory, MarkMove could be used with any kind of application, such as word processing, for similar purposes. QuickBASIC source code is included. PreBack 1.1 Patriquin, Norm ASP $15 determines the last backup date and will remind you that backup is needed. It is intended to be implemented in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file to be run every time your system is started. In addition, it can optionally show you the files needing backup and allow you to exclude files from the backup process. This saves backup time and disks. (Not on this Disk. Ask for disk #8385.) Pushfile (PUSHFIL) is an interesting utility for archiving files that is different from anything I've seen before, although I understand it has mainframe roots. What it does is let you save succeeding versions of a file without just overwriting it with each new change. For example, if you have a file BOOK.TXT that you are preparing to work on, first do a PUSHFILE BOOK.TXT. The name will be changed to BOOK0.-TX with a version number (starting with 0) inserted at the end of the first part of the file name and a "-" inserted at the start of the extension. If you do serious writing or programming, check this out. RoCalc 1.0 Sink, Robert Jr $? is a hard disk backup accessory. It will calculate time required, number of disks needed and other information for one or more drives. SafeCopy (SAFECPY) Vass, Garry J. $0 is a backup utility that copies files in an unchanged format to floppies using a best-fit algorithm to maximize disk space. The "safe" in Safecopy refers to its option to verify each write up to nine times. DOS 3+, CGA-compatible video required. TCopy Plus 4.0 (TCOPY) PCX $0 is a hard disk backup program for use with SCSI tape drives. (Not on this disk. Ask for disk #8854.) -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #1514 -------------------------------- ------------------------- 1624 Hard Disk Optimizers Small Programs Disk ------------------------- Diskperf is a text file containing charts and a discussion of the effect of various interleave factors on hard disk performance. Disk OrGanizer 3.17 (DOG) Morris, G. Allen III ASP $30 will help you speed up your disk access times by defragmenting files and removing deleted entries from directories. It will also allow you to determine the order of files and subdirectories. It can also free some disk space by truncating subdirectories. A nice side effect of this is that non-fragmented files are much easier to recover with the many unerase programs available. This program will NOT work with DOS 4.01. Interleave Adjustment Utility 1.9E (IAU) Bushong, Dave $10 changes the physical arrangement of data on a hard disk in order for the CPU to be able to access the data in the least amount of time. Sectors on a hard disk are not in numerical order. The reason is that after one sector is read, then as the data is still being passed along, the hard disk head is passing over the next sector (or two or more, depending on how quickly the data from the first sector is passed on). If sectors were in strict order, the disk platter would have to spin all the way around for the head to be over the next sector again. By placing the next logical sector two or three sectors away, by the time the first sector is processed, the head is just coming over the correct sector. This spacing is what is known as the interleave factor and depends on the speed of the computer and the controller card. Other utilities let you adjust the interleave, but make you reformat your hard disk. IAU will adjust it without re-formatting. It tests and adjusts the hard disk interleave without destroying any data, and is compatible with most MFM and RLL drives. Also included is FLOPINFO a program which will display the current drive parameters for your floppy disks, and DISKINFO which will display the current drive parameters for your hard disk. A hard disk PARK utility is also included. Org 3.0 Greve, Michael H. $30 is an excellent multi-function hard disk optimizer. It will defragment a hard disk very quickly, while letting you specify placement for specific files. It will also sort files in any directory and delete temporary files as it goes. It supports all versions of DOS from 2.1 up. Other features include support for extended and expanded memory, a simulation mode to test the program on a machine without any risk of data loss, and a fast mode that unfragments the files without regard to file sequence. Be sure to back up your files and read all instructions carefully before attempting to use any program (such as this one) that works on your hard disk. SafePack 1.5 (SAFEPAC) D J Harvey Software ASP $16 is a disk defragmenter designed to maintain the safety of your data. It would be foolish to use ANY such program without backing up first, but with SafePack, you are less likely to have to resort to your backup. It can be run in an unattended mode. It supports DOS 2.0-5.0 and DR DOS up to 6.0. SST-AH Heyman, Alfred J. $? is a hard disk optimizer. SST ("Seek Stopper") is a program that is designed to reorganize a DOS disk so that it will run more efficiently and thus, faster. Normal daily use of a disk will produce a disk with many fragmented files and subdirectories. SST will let you put them back together. Make sure your files are backed up before using a utility such as this. While it is faster than many other disk optimizers such as DOG (see above), it is also riskier to use. If your computer were to lose power while SST is working, you would have to restore all your data from your backups. (Anyone would be foolish to run such a program without good backups.) In testing, SST worked on some machines that DOG would not work on. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #1624 -------------------------------- ----------------------------- 3705 Hard Disk Setup and Info Small Programs Disk ----------------------------- 3_Drives 1.5 (3DRIVES) PC+ Company $30 is a device driver that allows you to add a third hard disk drive to your system. You can combine MFM, RLL, ESDI and SCSI interface drives with the new low-cost IDE AT Interface drives for a total of three drives. This program is Windows compatible. Requires 286 or better CPU and DOS 5. 3MFM Travers, Bruce $0 is a text file that explains how to run three or more MFM hard disks on an AT type machine. DOS40Dsk Easton, Wyn $0 is a text file by an IBM tech rep which describes how DOS 4 handles the FAT for big disks (eg: greater than 32meg). DskSet Smith, Ronald Q. $10 lets you add a hard disk that doesn't match one of the predefined types in your system's parameter table. Another utility in the set lets you warm boot any partition by type-name or number. DTL Hightower, Michael $? formats and displays the contents of your ROM's disk type table, showing the number of cylinders, heads, and other drive characteristics defined for each drive type known to SETUP. Works on the AT and PS/2s. Extended Drive Description Tables (EDDTV4) Gentry, Don $? is a system to support many more hard drive types than contained in the IBM AT rom set. Currently about 120 different drive types are defined. Find Type 1.10 (FINDTYP) Seagate Technology, Inc. $0 will give the correct setup parameters for installing Seagate hard drives. Hard Disk Drive Data (HDDRVDA) contains information on 153 different disk drives. HDInfo 5 Martin, Ray $15-$20 is a file listing a large number hard disks and their specifications. Some of the drives are not in production anymore, but the information could still be useful. The list includes over 900 different drives types. The listing is greater than 80 characters wide, so before trying to print it, be sure to set your printer to compressed print. HDList 3.0 Total Resource Specialists, ASP $10 displays the information (cylinders, heads, etc) for hard drives supported by the computer's BIOS. Hdtable Penner, Les $? purports to read out the parameter table from the controller board so you can choose the entry that is best for your drive. IDEID 1.1 Micro House $0 displays information on IDE drive's manufacturer, model, serial number, parameters, and specifications. IDE Indentify 1.40 (MH-IDE) Micro House International $0 shows head, cylinder, and sector counts for CMOS setup parameters on all IDE hard drives in your system. Roinfo 1.0 is a guide for the setup and use of hard drives. RoInfo provides total information on two of the largest and most used hard drive brands today - Seagate and Miniscribe. It also gives technical assistance numbers in case you need to contact the companies, minor definitions of all the encoding methods (such as MFM, RLL, etc..) and also provides the DEBUG format address codes for low-level formatting. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #3705 -------------------------------- ------------------------------- 0842 Hard Disk Utilities, Other Small Programs Disk ------------------------------- Coretest 2.92 (CORETST) Core, Inc. $? is a hard disk speed checking program. Diskread (DSKREAD) Brownp, Michael L. $? is a hard disk utility that lets you display the partition table, display specified sectors, copy a sector from one spot to another, even across drives, or even copy one hard drive to another. Disk Size (DSIZ-CJ) Jones, Clive $0 is a 9K TSR that displays your free hard disk space in a small window in the upper right corner of your monitor. EasyDiag (EASYDIA) Western Digital Corporation $0 is a diagnostics utility for WD controllers. HardTrack 1.0 (HARDTRK) 08-93 CD Olsen, Jim $29 keeps track of and reports on new, modified, and missing files on your hard disk or network drive. (Not on this disk. Ask for disk #18104.) Hdsniff 1.0 Green, Roedy $0 sniffs out the parameters that were used to perform the last low-level format a hard disk. Could be very useful if you are not the one who did the low-level format. Install Widing, Phil $0 is a text file with information about how to simplify installation of fixed volumes other than drive C:. Kontrol 1.0 Sawada, Masaaki Dr. $10 loads into memory and watches for up someone trying to run one of up to 25 specified programs. It then kicks into action and performs specified tasks, which can include requesting a password to be entered, logging time and date, changing file attributes (eg: you could unhide sensitive files to work on at this point), copy or deleting files, and changing subdirectory. The password function is not fool-proof by itself, since renaming the program might circumvent it. LL7FMT $0 is a low level format utility from Western Digital for ESDI drives and the WD1007V-MC1 Microchannel controller. Map 1.0 (MAP-CS) Common Systems $5 displays a graphic and numeric chart showing usage of all of your logical drives from C: up. This is not an earth-shattering utility, but with more large drives around these days partitioned into multiple logical drives, Map could prove useful. Packdisk 1.3 SoftPatch $30 is a set of six hard disk utilities: delete a directory with all its files and subdirectories; list all fragmented files; rename a directory; optimize a hard disk by defragmenting files, etc.; transfer a directory with its files and subdirectories into another directory; park the heads. Space gives a quick report of space used and free on multiple drives beginning with drive C: and above, reporting a total at the end. This can be very handy if you have multiple hard disks, one hard disk divided into volumes, multiple RAM disks, etc, and want to know where the most free space is. Unfortunately, the program is overly large, being written in compiled BASIC. Maybe someone will look at the output and do the program in C or assembler. #0842 Head Parking Utilities ---------------------------- DmgPARK 2.31 Goodell, Dan $0 is a tiny TSR that will park your hard disk's heads after a specified period of inactivity. If your system includes two hard disks, each is parked independently. Mondisk 1.0 Sawada, Masaaki Dr. $10 is a PS/2 program to blank the screen on time intervals of 1 - 59 minutes and to park the hard disk on time intervals of 1 - 59. There is also an immediate park feature to park your disk head in case your software caused a lock up and you must reboot your computer. Mspark Sawada, Masaaki Dr. $10 As some of you have found out, the PS/2 machines do not have a parking program with the package. The documentation is not clear about the need for parking them. If you prefer to play it safe, you need this utility. NJpark 1.0 Blaszczak, Mike $5 quickly parks the read-write heads of all hard disk drives attached to the system. We have been using the free public domain program PARKAL (below) on different systems successfully for several years, but if Parkal does not work for you, NJPARK might. Assembler source is included. Parkal 1.0 Gilbrech, Skip $0 attempts to park the heads on any "XT-compatible" fixed disks at the last usable cylinder and sector, where there is unlikely to be any data stored. Timepark (TIMEPRK) is a resident utility which parks the heads on your hard disk after a specified period of inactivity. This is designed primarily for BBS operators or others who leave their systems on for long periods of time. By parking the heads during non-use, the chances of a head crash onto critical data is reduced. TPB 2.0 Somers, George $15 is a timed hard drive head parker and screen blanker. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #0842 -------------------------------- GuardSet 2.0 08-93 CD DePyper, Gerald $30-$64 #12376 allows you to create disk security systems. You can create encryption/ decryption programs to control access to files and directories on your computer's disk. HDTest Fletcher, Peter R. ASP $35 #0698 allows comprehensive Read/Write testing of hard disks on IBM PCs, XTs, ATs, and "true" compatibles. Although many programs, including IBM's diagnostics, allow "surface scanning" and seek testing of hard disks, none that are available to the average user tests whether the whole disk can retain the data that is or will be written to it. HDTest's principal claim to fame is the ability to thoroughly test the surface of a hard disk which contains data while preserving the data (although data loss is unavoidable if a cluster which is in use has become unreadable). HDTest tests the disk much more thoroughly than programs such as DFixer, Mace, and Norton's DT. HDTest writes 20 different test patterns to every cluster on the disk and checks that each pattern can be read back correctly, while preserving the contents of the clusters that already contain data. HDTest may also detect errors which are minor enough to be correctable by the disk controller's own error-correcting code, but which may fortell future problems. HDTest has BIOS-level support for DOS 3.3 extended devices and for large drives under Compaq DOS 3.31 and DOS 4. Mass-Store Copy Informative Technologies $63 #3258 makes it easier to back up large removable media such as optical drives, Bernoulli cartridges, etc. It automatically uses free space on your hard disk to accomplish the copy. It can copy more data at once by compressing data going to the hard disk and then uncompressing when copying it back to the backup media. Files can be selectively copied based on date, archive bit, and other attributes. The program can run mounting and dismounting programs if required by the storage device. MegaBack 2.0 Patri-Soft ASP $44-$64 #4351 is a fast, easy-to-use hard disk backup utility with many sophisticated features. It uses a high compression algorithm and "smart disk storage" to maximize disk space usage, although you can select whether to use low, standard, or high compression or none at all. It will optionally restore files to any location. MegaBack keeps track of your backups so that you can easily locate files. MegaBack makes it easy to select files and directories to be backed up. It supports both floppy disk and devices like Bernoulli drives and other removable disk media. MegaBack can be menu or command line driven. It has the ability to recover from disk errors on backup up media. Point & Shoot Backup/Restore Applied Micro Systems Technology ASP $35 #2547 is a hard disk backup and restoration program. This is a companion program for the Point & Shoot Hard Disk Manager, but can be used by itself. You can specify up to 10 different backup configurations, each with a list of up to 10 directories and/or complete directory branches to backup. Features include files being stored in DOS readable format, optional file compression, optional disk formatting, and support for all floppy disk sizes. Simple Backup and Simple DOS Thrifty Applications ASP $25-$35 #4579 Simple Backup is a full-featured backup and restore utility. It compresses files 40-80 percent. Standard DOS commands are used to restore uncompressed files. Floppies are automatically formatted during backup. Backups can be automated with a script file. Files are split across multiple floppy disks. Multiple drive/directory backups can be done in one key press. Messages are customizable. Simple DOS is a DOS shell. SpeedBak 2.3 MicroTools ASP $15 #4678 is a fast disk defragmenter. A defragmenter takes files whose sectors have been spread around your hard disk and merges them back together to speed up disk access. Requires 512k of RAM. Stowaway 1.91 Patri-Soft ASP $54 #3865 is a hard disk backup utility with integrated catalog program for keeping track of backed-up files. Files to be stowed away can be specified in advance or easily selected from a scrollable list, with the ability to view WordPerfect and ASCII files. Stowaway is easy to run following menu prompts, but can also be run from the command line. Files are compressed when backed up and uncompressed when restored. Disks are automatically formatted as needed. Expiration dates can be assigned to files for automatic deletion. Complete directory trees can be archived, and networks are supported. A facility to view the files which have been archived is also provided. Archive statistics can be displayed including active, deleted, expired files, compression ratio and more. TwinCopy 1.1 KB Software Solutions $22 #27878 is a backup utility that keeps track of which floppy each file is stored on. Twincopy will do incremental and partial backups. When a file has changed, Twincopy prompts you to insert its disk so that it can update the original file. Other features include data compression, splitting of large files over multiple disks, support for all disk sizes, seletive restoring of files, and ease of use. (Available on 3.5" 1.44MB MegaDisk ONLY!) UseManager 1.0 Weinstein, Iram J. ASP $43 #12195 is a file usage tracking system. It records the number of times each file on your hard disk is accessed and when the last access occurred. You can select or print files to be backed up, deleted or archived based on this information. You can also view, edit, copy, or files from a user modifiable menu. ------------------- 1996 PC Security #1 Small Programs Disk ------------------- (IMPORTANT NOTE: With any hard disk security program, carefully read and print the documentation file prior to running the software and document the steps you take and what you type during installation. We often receive calls from users who lock themselves out of their own machines, unfortunately, there is nothing we can do to help by that time.) DeepLock 1.1 (DEEPLCK) Dibble, David M. ASP $0 is a password program and screen blanker that disables Ctrl-Alt-Del and Ctrl-Break and offers a choice of five "look-busy" screens to make the casual intruder think that the computer is working on something. If a key is pressed a message warns that data may be lost and the disk corrupted, etc., to further try to scare the person off. DGLock 2.10 The Brass Cannon Corporation $0 is a password protection program that is simple and easy to use, but that also has some very powerful features. After executing (presumably as the first line in your AUTOEXEC.BAT), it disables Ctrl-Alt-Delete. After a third incorrect password is entered, LOCK will begin logging every password attempt, noting both the time and the password entered. Whenever a wrong password is entered, LOCK will sound a warning buzz; if the attempts continue, the warning sounds will become increasingly unpleasant. Lock-Out 1.0 (LOCKOUT) Scott, Douglas $23 is a security program that will prevent someone from accessing your hard disk even if they boot-up your computer from A:. The program does not change the FAT or perform file encryption but it will change a line your AUTOEXEC.BAT file. LockUp 1.5 MacAskill, Brian $0-$10 keeps the curious out of your system by displaying a phony DOS prompt until you enter a password. Any other input is saved in a log file and given the response: "bad command or file name". MagLoc lets you password-protect all or part of a hard disk. Protection can be against booting the disk or modifying files on it. It also lets you hide files. This is a serious disk security program. There is no documentation file, but there is plenty of context-sensitive, on-line help. Be aware that if you are careless, you can lock up your machine and never get back into it again. When you tell it to lock the drive, it will ask your for a "journal" disk, which must be a floppy. A good idea is to use the diskette with Magloc on it for the "journal disk". To unlock your hard disk again, you MUST have Magloc and the journal disk available. Lose either and you are out of luck. It will NOT work with DOS 4.0+. PassWord (PASWRD) make PC password protectable. Includes asm source code. PassKey Culliso, Rod $? is a menu program with password security for systems that have multiple users and someone to serve as a system administrator. The author says this program has been approved by the auditors of a billion-dollar bank. PC Padlock 2.2 (PADLOCK) 08-93 CD Del Mar Software $30 is a floppy disk locking system. Anyone attempting to access a locked floppy will simply get a General Failure Reading Drive error. To unlock the disk, you run Padlock on the disk again and enter the same password with which it was locked. Other features include protection from disk repair utilities and individual file encryption. Protect (P-TECT) $0 write-protects and unprotects hard disks, keeping anyone from writing data (or viruses) to them. Assm. source is included. PW Scheall, David $5 is a password program. The problem with most password programs is that they don't protect against someone booting the system from a floppy disk, and this one is no exception. Still, the documentation contains some interesting information about CONFIG.SYS and batch files. Secure 1.07 Macdonald, Stuart $20 is a hard-disk/system security system. Unlike most of the simple password programs in the library, Secure prevents unauthorized access to the hard disk if the system is booted from the floppy drive. It also prevents accidental format of the hard disk, and allows you to block writes to the hard disk. SysLock J. C. Kilday Associates $? is used to discourage unauthorized use of IBM PC's and compatibles. When the complete "system" is installed on an IBM XT, positive and absolute protection against unauthorized use of the machine is assured. This protection can be bypassed only by a knowlegeable intruder opening up the XT box. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #1996 -------------------------------- ------------------- 3138 PC Security #2 Small Programs Disk ------------------- Beeper Bly, Dave $1 goes in your AUTOEXEC.BAT and dials your pager (or other phone number) whenever your system is booted to let you know that someone is using your machine. Requires GWBASIC. DOS-Safe 1.0 (DOSSAFE) Wilson, Roy $0 describes how to use DOS commands to improve the security of your computer system. While this file was written with BBS sysops in mind, most of the information in it is useful to anyone concerned about the security of their system. DSecure Vass, Garry $0 writes over all erased areas of a disk so that files cannot be undeleted. When DOS deletes a file, it does not remove the data files, it simply marks the directory entry as deleted. That is why undelete utilities can so easily undelete a file. That is also why you may be giving people personal, confidential information (credit card numbers, love letters, etc) every time you pass out a floppy that you may have used before. Even if someone cannot undelete a file on your disk, they may still read the sectors with a utility like Norton's. Running Dsecure on the disks removes that risk. Hide-It RSE Inc. $20 lets you hide files and use them (after entering a password) without un-hiding them. To anyone not using Hide-It, the files are normally invisible. NoShell 1.0 Dunn, Steve $0 is a TSR that requires all users to enter a password before executing a DOS shell from within any other program. This prevents unauthorized people from getting access to your system by shelling to DOS from within an application. (Presumably, your system would be set up so that when quitting the application, the user would be returned to a password protected DOS menu program.) Password 1.4s (PASSWRD) Monroe, Gerald A. $10 "is a program designed to give your personal computer a high level of security against unauthorized use," says the documentation. This is a nice attempt because it puts the password program in CONFIG.SYS rather than AUTOEXEC.BAT, but the fact remains that, as with most other password programs, anyone with a floppy can bypass this. (For a complete rundown of system security options, including a discussion of the only really secure password program for a hard disk system that we've seen in shareware, see the 08-88 PSL NEWS. The text of the 1988 newsletters is available on disk under "Special Disks" at the beginning of the Library Listing in this issue.) We are adding this anyway because in some situations it may prove effective. (It keeps the honest thieves out, as we say when we lock our car doors in Houston.) It also has a very effective system lock-up for when you have to leave your computer unattended for a while. Password Generator (PASSGEN) Matter, Robert J. $0 generates truly random eight-character passwords for use in security programs, networks, bbs's, etc. PClockII is a set of files for password protecting your hard disk. TimeLock 22.12.90 (TIMELCK) Ricketts, Robert K. $25 is a 2k TSR will lock the PC keyboard after a user-specified period of inactivity. You must enter a password to unlock it. You may set the period of inactivity to be from six seconds to one hour. TShell Bovee, Tim $0 lets you present users with what looks like the DOS prompt, but you have full control over what commands will be accepted and executed. UCPass Ford, G.H. $15 lets you add password protection to most programs. It does not retain the original program file, so be sure to work only from a copy. In our tests, the UCPass worked with LIST, but not with a sorted directory utility that we use. XSnoop McIntosh, Scott $10 is a clever password program that increases its effectiveness by not looking like a password program. Instead, it looks like your DOS prompt, and if someone tries to enter something while you are gone, it will either just ignore it, or at your option, beep and/or display a message like "Memory allocation error." By putting Xsnoop in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file (and turning ECHO off), if someone tries to reboot from the hard disk, Xsnoop will still respond properly only to your password. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #3138 -------------------------------- -------------------- 12348 PC Security #3 Small Programs Disk -------------------- ExecProtect (EXEPRO) Solid Oak Software $34 is a TSR that allows you to password protect EXE or COM files. It features a master password option or you can use different passwords for each program. EXErun 1.0a Sawada, Dr. Masaaki $10-$20 lets you add password protection to any program. It modifies your .EXE programs so that they will not run unless EXERUN.EXE is in memory. When in memory, EXErun will check to see if the file size or date or time was changed, and optionally check to see if BIOS and DOS changed, request password, and check to see if other required programs, such as TSR utilities were already run. Guardian (GUARDRW) Wallingford, Robert $25 lets you add password protection to COM and EXE files. After modifying programs with Guardian, they cannot be run without entering the specified password. JLock Sawada, Dr. Masaaki $10-$20 is a memory-resident utility which lets you control whether specified files may be opened, created, executed, deleted, renamed or allowed to change file mode. (We would like to see COPYING added to the list, but perhaps it is not feasible.) A password can optionally be implemented for additional security. (res:10k) Protect! EXE/COM 2.0 (PROTEXE) 08-93 CD Lilley, Jeremy $25 is an EXE and COM file security program. It encrypts EXE and COM files, yet still leaves them executable. A CRC is calculated every time a protected program is loaded, and no program with a bad CRC will be allowed to run. It requires LZEXE (on disk #2463) or PKLite (#4053) to compress EXE files before protecting them. PC-Sentry (PCSNTRY) Solid Oak Software $89 is a collection of programs that provides security and accountability on PC's and networks. The heart of the system is a (25k) TSR that maintains daily log files of all files opened, deleted, created, copied, directories created and deleted, time changes, commands issued from the DOS prompt, and more. Other utilities include a file encryption utility, a utility that denies access to floppy drives, one to disable local printers, hard disk lock-out, and more. --------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #12348 --------------------------------- Guardian 1.92 Marcor Enterprises $44 #3031 is a security system which protects either a hard disk or a floppy disk against unauthorized use. Individual files may be password or encryption protected. A hard disk or floppy may be locked so that it may not be accessed. The system allows up to six different passwords. MakeLoad 1.13 08-93 CD RamSoft Software $29 #20215/12179 [2 disks] saves hard disk space by storing less frequently used programs on floppies and automatically installing them when needed. It keeps track of the floppies each program is installed on and what directory it belongs in. A program and its files can be unloaded to or loaded from floppies with a keypress. OffLoad FBN Software ASP $53 #7509/3330 [2 disks] will archive files, move files from your hard disk and record their location in a catalog. It will also restore, and decompress the files into their original directory or any directory specified. Secure General Systems $48-$112 #7815/4578 [3 disks] is a system security and menuing program. Features include floppy boot protection, random passwords and random password generation, multi-user support, electronic messaging, user notebook, pop-up calendar, job account and employee department tracking, audit trailing, nine security levels, mouse support and more. Many hard disk security programs can easily be circumvented by booting from a floppy. Secure does not let this happen. In addition, the user can be restricted to the menu system after booting on the hard disk. The menu system then allows you to restrict users' access to subdirectories and programs. Secure is ideal for libraries, schools, and other places where the multiple people are allowed to use the same computer. Requires DOS 3.0+, 640K memory, and a hard disk. PC-Vault 4.5f Johnson Computer Systems, Inc. ASP $35 #1987 asks for a user name and/or password when you boot your computer. The hard disk cannot be accessed without the password even on a floppy boot. A "LunchBreak" feature blanks the screen and locks the keyboard when a hot key is pressed or when the keyboard/mouse have been idle for a user specified time. Up to 12 user passwords can be maintained, and a logoff utility is provided to log you off the computer and allow another user to logon without rebooting. PC-Vault Plus 4.5f Johnson Computer Systems, Inc. ASP $95 #4983 is a hard disk protection program. The user must enter a password and optionally, a user name in order to access the hard disk, even if booting from a floppy. The main difference between the regular PC-Vault and the Plus is the ability to control access to specific directories for individual users. ]]]]]]]]]]