Re: Boot floppy

[Juergen Fiedler <juergen () fiedlerfamily net>]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 10:07:09AM -0500, Mifa wrote:
> We have a user who takes a company  computer home with them (no its not a lap top).  We have a good reason to need to 
> look at their files.  However, we want to do so without that employ knowing.  They seem to know something about 
> security becasue auto runs is disabled and the workstation is always locked with a third party software.  INserting a 
> U3 drive will not run a program either.  Are there any programs that will boot from a floppy then copy a program to 
> the c drive then wite an auto start entry into the registry?  This was the only way I can think of to get the user to 
> install a program..
>
> Any other ideas how we maight gain access?  It has to be fast (bathroom breaks ect).  I dont have time to load a live 
> cd. Further, robooting would cause the user to loose work.

Restore a recent backup of his machine to a different host. You do
keep regular backups of all machines, right?

 --j

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