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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 19, 2008
David Carroll Challener, Raleigh, NC (US);
Justin Tyler Dubs, Durham, NC (US);
James Joseph Thrasher, Efland, NC (US);
Michael Terrell Vanover, North Hills, NC (US);
David Carroll Challener, Raleigh, NC (US);
Justin Tyler Dubs, Durham, NC (US);
James Joseph Thrasher, Efland, NC (US);
Michael Terrell Vanover, North Hills, NC (US);
Lenoro (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Singapore, SG;
Abstract
A system, method, and program product is provided that detects whether a network adapter has been removed from a computer system. If the network adapter, such as a wireless network adapter, has been removed from the computer system, then a tamper evident indicator (e.g., bit) is set in a nonvolatile memory area of the computer system. In addition, a hard drive password is set to a different password according to a hard drive password policy. The hard drive password controls access to files stored on the hard drive. In one embodiment, the power-on password is also changed to a new password so that the user has to enter the new power-on password when initializing the computer system in order to access the files stored on the computer system.