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Solve : is possible to set a password to a registry key?or block acces??

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is possible to set a password to a registry key?or block acces only for that key?do not let that no ONE can edit or deleteIf anyone has access to the C: drive of the system, they have access to the registry.

If your fully patched and running a good antivirus and have a good firewall then you have nothing to worry about.

With NTFS partition and correct security measures you should be all set. If your computer use places you at high risk for infection etc, you should implement a image backup of your system so that when infected or think your infected you can restore back to KNOWN clean state.

Also if you lower your previleges by creating a USER account that does not have Administrator privileges you can limit how easily you could get infected. Most Windows users are running as system admin all teh time and so this puts them at risk of infection etc. On my systems I make a profile / user account that is bare minimum access which blocks scripts from trying to install junk BEHIND the scenes etc.I found this:

HKEY_USERS\Foo\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer  NoViewOnDrive  to disable a drive or NoDrives to hide the drives
what about this?A Linux boot disk or custom BartPE boot disc would defeat this in seconds. That's why I stated.

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If anyone has access to the C: drive of the system, they have access to the registry.

If your trying to keep someone out of your computer who has physical access to it, you will need to block the physical access by making the computer unable to be accessed, or install a removable hard drive bay and remove the drive and put in in a safe when your done using computer so that its useless for others ( OR ) if others need access and you want to only have 1 computer, go the route of removable hard drives and have an Main Drive and a User Drive, and label them with a sharpie marker etc, and plug in the Main Drive when you want to use the 1 and only computer, and remove this drive and insert the User Drive when others need to use the computer but of which you don't want anyone to have access to altering your system, since after all... the your data is on the hard drive or SSD and so, swapping out drives you can have 1 computer that acts like 2 DIFFERENT systems. One for you to have and keep clean and another for the kids to use for example and infect their own data.

I have done this setup for some clients who have kids that like to download everything and anything and their system kept getting infected. $100 for a $50 hard drive and 2 x $25 removable hard drive bays was the fix. They swap in their hard drive in place of their kids when they need to pay bills etc, and they swap the kids drive back in when they are using the 1 and only computer for regular web surfing or their kids are gaming etc.

Its one way to give a single computer 2 completely ISOLATED profiles. Assuming that its a desktop computer that is. Laptops require a BIOS password to lock and this can be dangerous if you forget the password. This BIOS password wouldn't work for if others need to use the system.


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