Getting files off a Pointsec protected PC

[t***@yahoo.com]

I have a pc that has Pointsec installed. This pc has recently had a
corrupt registry problem and fails to log in to Windows XP. We need
to get some file off the hard drive BEFORE we turn it over to
corporate IT because they are personal (not illegal) files and our IT
typically formats first and troubleshoots second.

My question is is there a dos level utility that I might be able to
boot from CD, enter my Pointsec password, with USB support so I can
access the files that are on the hard disk?

Thanks!

[Moe Trin]

On Sat, 22 Sep 2007, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.computer.security, in article

Post by t***@yahoo.com
I have a pc that has Pointsec installed. This pc has recently had a
corrupt registry problem and fails to log in to Windows XP.

You are posting from a search engine - did you try searching for the
string 'Pointsec recovery' or similar?

Post by t***@yahoo.com
We need to get some file off the hard drive BEFORE we turn it over to
corporate IT because they are personal (not illegal) files and our IT
typically formats first and troubleshoots second.

Well, maybe you learned from this incident to not put personal shit on
company systems - but if they're simply going to format and reinstall
who cares about your personal file which shouldn't have been there in
the first place. They won't be looking for it.

Post by t***@yahoo.com
My question is is there a dos level utility that I might be able to
boot from CD, enter my Pointsec password, with USB support so I can
access the files that are on the hard disk?

Again - are you to lazy to use the search engine you are posting from?

Old guy

[nemo_outis]

***@painkiller.example.tld (Moe Trin) wrote in news:***@compton.phx.az.us:

...

Post by Moe Trin
Again - are you to lazy to use the search engine you are posting from?
Old guy

Aside from the lad being an idiot in the first place for putting files on
the company computer, and a lazy sod in the second place for not doing
his google homework, there is another solution that will ensure his
private data does not fall into company hands:

Boot from a CD, fill the entire drive with random data overwriting
everything that is currently there, and then call the company IT folks
and plaintively whine, "My computer has gone strange; please come and fix
it." Based on his post here, he should have no trouble feigning
ignorance :-)

He won't get his data back, but it won't fall into company hands.

Regards,

PS If he is industrious, he could make a sector-by-sector image of the
drive first to CD/DVD or such so he had some (very remote) chance of
recovering the data later after he got off his ass and did some googling
about recovery methods for Pointsec.

PPS One wonders why he never invested a few bucks in a USB stick before
getting himself into this predicament. Or...

[t***@yahoo.com]

Post by Moe Trin
On Sat, 22 Sep 2007, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.computer.security, in article

Post by t***@yahoo.com
I have a pc that has Pointsec installed. This pc has recently had a
corrupt registry problem and fails to log in to Windows XP.

You are posting from a search engine - did you try searching for the
string 'Pointsec recovery' or similar?

Post by t***@yahoo.com
We need to get some file off the hard drive BEFORE we turn it over to
corporate IT because they are personal (not illegal) files and our IT
typically formats first and troubleshoots second.

Well, maybe you learned from this incident to not put personal shit on
company systems - but if they're simply going to format and reinstall
who cares about your personal file which shouldn't have been there in
the first place. They won't be looking for it.

Post by t***@yahoo.com
My question is is there a dos level utility that I might be able to
boot from CD, enter my Pointsec password, with USB support so I can
access the files that are on the hard disk?

Again - are you to lazy to use the search engine you are posting from?
Old guy

OF COURSE I searched for the solution via google with similar words
that you indicated. Did you do that and come up with something? If
you did, post it and you might have a point. If not, your accusations
and judgements that I didn't do that first makes YOU the idiot.

Instead of giving me help, you and the other IDIOT just want to give
me unprofessional moral judging instead of tech support.

Nevermind. I'll go to a group who's users' IQs aren't in single
digits.

[nemo_outis]

***@yahoo.com wrote in news:***@w3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com:

...

Post by t***@yahoo.com
Nevermind. I'll go to a group who's users' IQs aren't in single
digits.

Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.

Regards,

[Ari]

Post by nemo_outis
...

Post by t***@yahoo.com
Nevermind. I'll go to a group who's users' IQs aren't in single
digits.

Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.
Regards,

I guess you confirmed who Idiot 2 was, nemo. :) :)

[anders]

Post by Moe Trin
On Sat, 22 Sep 2007, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.computer.security, in

Post by t***@yahoo.com
I have a pc that has Pointsec installed. This pc has recently had a
corrupt registry problem and fails to log in to Windows XP.

You are posting from a search engine - did you try searching for the
string 'Pointsec recovery' or similar?

Post by t***@yahoo.com
We need to get some file off the hard drive BEFORE we turn it over to
corporate IT because they are personal (not illegal) files and our IT
typically formats first and troubleshoots second.

Well, maybe you learned from this incident to not put personal shit on
company systems - but if they're simply going to format and reinstall
who cares about your personal file which shouldn't have been there in
the first place. They won't be looking for it.

Post by t***@yahoo.com
My question is is there a dos level utility that I might be able to
boot from CD, enter my Pointsec password, with USB support so I can
access the files that are on the hard disk?

Again - are you to lazy to use the search engine you are posting from?
Old guy

OF COURSE I searched for the solution via google with similar words that
you indicated. Did you do that and come up with something? If you did,
post it and you might have a point. If not, your accusations and
judgements that I didn't do that first makes YOU the idiot.
Instead of giving me help, you and the other IDIOT just want to give me
unprofessional moral judging instead of tech support.
Nevermind. I'll go to a group who's users' IQs aren't in single digits.

http://www.google.se/search?q=Pointsec
+recovery&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=com.ubuntu:sv-
SE:official&client=firefox-a

149000 results

http://se.altavista.com/web/results?itag=ody&q=Pointsec
+recovery&kgs=0&kls=1

69500 results

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Pointsec+recovery&fr=yfp-
t-501&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&vc=&fp_ip=SE

74700 results

All this on Pointsec recovery, I din't mind to try Pointsec+recovery and
the moore obvious "Pointsec recovery".

Feel free to use the results after you're own head.

((You have to figure out for you self how to get the tag's in to
oneliners.))

/Anders