fortres or ikiosk ?

[Chuck Bearden]

These two programs do different things.  IKIOSK will let 
you disble menu options, dialog boxes, and right-clicks in 
selected applications.  Unless you use it to disable all 
Open & Save dialog boxes as well as right-clicks, your hard 
drives will still be vulerable.  IKIOSK alone *might* do 
if you don't want to let people FTP files to floppy for 
personal use *and* if you use some other means (incl. 
registry & MSDOS.SYS changes in Win95) to protect the 
interface.  

And Fortres won't keep users from activating mail and news 
clients in Netscape to send mail.  It won't prevent users 
from changing Netscape's settings to their hearts' content.  

Fortres protects the hard drive and defangs the interface.  
IKIOSK makes individual applications safe.  You have to find 
some way to do both things.  

Hyper Technologies does have plans for some form of HD 
protection to work with IKIOSK, so there will be more 
options.  Also, StopLight ELS has some real virtue as a HD 
protection program.  

Chuck
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--- On Thu, 5 Dec 1996 18:54:10 -0800  Miriam Bobkoff <mbobkoff at rt66.com> 
wrote:

>
>The City's MIS department has changed its mind about how to handle PC 
>security on our soon-to-be public Netscape PCs, and put the decision in
>our laps. They want us to tell them--right away and sight unseen--whether
>we want Fortres 101 or Ikiosk. Vaguely we're inclining towards Fortres,
>but would like to hear briefly from a bunch of libraries, especially
>public libraries, who are using either of these programs: which are you
>using, and are you satisfied with it?
>
>Please reply to me, and I'll tally this straw poll for the list. 
>
>Thank you very much.
>
>Miriam Bobkoff              mbobkoff at rt66.com    
>Santa Fe Public Library         
>     The Library's Page  http://www.ci.santa-fe.nm.us/sfpl/
>  "A fact should be loved for itself alone." Robert A. Heinlein
>

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