On the screen, a dialog box asked for my user name. After I entered it, the software displayed a crosshair and invited me to place a finger on the BioMouse's red scanner. When I pressed down my left thumb, a clear fingerprint image appeared along the bottom of the screen, so I moved my thumb closer to the center of the sensor window. Almost instantly the security window disappeared, and I was in. That's how you gain access to a system running Microsoft Windows or SunSoft Solaris if it's equipped with the BioMouse fingerprint recognition system.
Most people hate trying to remember passwords.
Too many just select their own or relatives' names and then write them down somewhere. It notes stuck right on the monitor. Security managers have valiantly battled for better password use, to little avail. The BioMouse scanner hardware and software compare a sample fingerprint against prints stored in memory. The process is fast, secure and user-friendly, and the equipment is easy to install and maintain.