LAN STATION PERSONAL COMPUTER AND METHOD FOR SECURITY PROTECTION

摘要

PURPOSE: To provide a LAN station personal computer and a security protection method. CONSTITUTION: In a method for protecting a system from an attack on a network to which a LAN station belongs and whose security is protected and in a medialess personal computer system work station (defined as LAN station here), a flag bit showing whether access to the specified security protection mechanism of the system is possible or not during a power on self test is set in a memory in the system, a procedure for obtaining a program for system constitution setting, which is stored in the network, is shown for guiding, a changing and eliminating a password used in the LAN station and password data is prevented from being transmitted on the network.