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I'm working on a business grade application, and I'm in need of a bit of help. I am working on an application that is supposed to remotely protect your system from being stolen by encrypting and locking out your drive to others (not an issue), but I need this to work even if the drive is placed within another computer. Is there anyway I can make a program start when a drive is accessed even if it isn't the primary?
The most secure software I have seen so far is the ones where they load right after the bios screen (probably appended to the bios) and prevent you from even starting anything before startup without entering in your windows username and password. Then upon startup you still have to log on and enter in your windows credientials. Both credientials are kept in synch so if yoiu have a password policy it wont be a problem. The drive is encrypted too so if removed, like when the laptop is stolen, the theif can not boot it up or access the drive.
Let me break out my laptop and see if I can see any info on the manufacturer of it as maybe it will give you some good ideas for protection. Keep inmind that this is not a very easy task and would probably NOT be written in VB6
I know that in VB6 something this low level is going to be, well next to impossible, but as for the incomputer implementation that will be all done in vb6. I'm going to try to tie in many languages in this, C++ is probably going to be my main language for the base, so I can load it on system boot, probably making my own boot loader then having it boot up windows, but still several of these things I am fairly new to.
I can make everything work with windows, in vb6, but I'll assume a very minor part is going to have to be written in C++
Ok here is what I have running and shoiuld give you some ideas ...
Embassy Security Center - Seagate Edition
EMBASSY Securty Center OEM Edition
Trusted Drive Manager
Wave TCG Crypto Service Provider
Manufacturer - Wave
The majority will need to be done in C++, not VB