DriveSentry Unveils Storage 'Firewall'

Program manages whitelist of safe applications, blocks others from writing to hard drive.

A Mountain View, California startup company has developed what it calls a storage "firewall" to prevent computer viruses from wrecking the data on desktop computers.

DriveSentry's software sets up a whitelist of trusted programs that are allowed to write to certain folders or file types. Should another program try to write to the drive, DriveSentry generates a pop-up window and asks the user if this should be allowed.
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