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Re: NT insecurity





On Tue, 19 Nov 1996, [email protected] wrote:

> Justin Robbins wrote:
> >
> > Well, for those uninformed out there who believe that you can
> > penetrate an NT box using NTFSDOS, the problem remains that security
> > in windows NT is a combination between the filesystem NTFS and the
> > actual operating system, NT. NTFSDOS only allows reading the drives,
> > not writing to them. NT also keeps the security registry
>
> I guess Norton Utilities for DOS don't work if you have NTFSDOS loaded,
> then.
>

no... from what I read.... NT's security features only work on NTFS
formated drives... if you where to run it on a drive with a FAT partition
then you wouldn't get to use any of it's security features

cbg