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| Thread ID: 32588 | 2003-04-23 06:14:00 | can you have a password on a folder | pdenmead (3654) | Press F1 |
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| 138104 | 2003-04-23 06:14:00 | hi i would like to have a password on a folder and/or files and i was wondering if there was a program or option that could let me do that thanks |
pdenmead (3654) | ||
| 138105 | 2003-04-23 06:17:00 | Steganos Security Suite which came with a PC World CD has a "virtual safe". Look on Download.com - there's plenty there. |
somebody (208) | ||
| 138106 | 2003-04-23 06:29:00 | what OS do you have???? | stu140103 (137) | ||
| 138107 | 2003-04-23 07:45:00 | here's a trick i discovered . Get the folder u want to secure, and hide it in some obsure directory miles down the file tree, where no1 will ever look for it . Then create a shortcut to it . Place the shortcut in a zip file, put a password on the zipfile, and then put the zip file in ur documents or where ever . When u want ur hidden folder, just surf to the zip file, click on the shortcut, enter the password and bobs ur uncle . Not totally secure, but good enough against beginer to moderate users! |
Will Hunt (3655) | ||
| 138108 | 2003-04-24 00:41:00 | I find Webroot's Privacy Master useful - www.webroot.com/wb/products/privacymaster/index.php (only available for Windows AFAIK) It allows you to nominate certain folders or individual files as being in a "secure partition". Whatever is secured is not visible at all to the casual browser, until you click to open the secure partition, and enter the password. Then it makes all the secure files and folders visible. When you specify the password to begin with, it "grades" it weak, moderate, strong...as you type. I mixed UC/LC and numbers, as you should, but Privacy Master still wouldn't give me a "strong" rating till I'd typed about 25 characters. As a further precaution, you can select particularly sensitive files to be encrypted (and automatically decrypted when the secure partition is opened), when allegedly even a forensic scan of the entire disk (which is likely to uncover the secure partition) still cannot make sense of the files. As Webroot says, the first level is designed to keep stuff from the prying eyes of colleagues or kids, and is safe "unless your kids are forensic experts". If they are, you may need the deeper level. But I have found it is unwise to protect too many files (or too-large files)to this deeper level, or Privacy Master takes an AGE to open the secure folders. If I want to encrypt files, I use PCEncrypt separately. There's clearly, too, a strange bug in Privacy Master which means occasionally (three times in the year or so I've been using it) the program simply disappears of your desktop/menu and makes the secure partition inaccessible, until you remove and reinstall the product. When removed, it spits all your secure stuff out into a folder helpfully(?) named "recovered hidden files". It's never (touch wood) lost me a file or folder permanently yet. (When it asks you on setup whether you want Privacy Master to appear in the list of installed Windows programs, it's advisable to say 'yes'; otherwise, if and when it fails, it's impossible to remove it in order to reinstall it! Webroot, though, can supply a program to get you out of this bind). Any comments on the effectiveness of Privacy Master or PCEncrypt? Webroot will allow you a free 30-day trial of Privacy Master, but password length is limited to five or six characters in this mode. But it's enough to be able to tell if it's going to work for you. Argus |
argus (366) | ||
| 138109 | 2003-04-24 01:13:00 | Try FProt from Mikko Technologies... I think if you search google for 'FProt Keykey', as these guys make KeyKey as well. This will completely hide the folder if desired.. an a myriad of other things, until you hit the Hotkey (Default is Ctrl + Alt + K) and un-lock it with a password :-) Look into it, you'll be pleasantly surprised with what it can do! Otherwise, look into Folder Guard, Im not too sure who makes it, but it does a similar job! Cheers Chilling_Silence |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 138110 | 2003-04-24 20:01:00 | Depending on your os you may not need addons | Captive (3159) | ||
| 138111 | 2003-04-25 05:30:00 | Hi there Another method for making stuff unaccessible using a zip file is to put the files you want to secure into a zip folder with a password. Then put the zip folder onto another zip folder with a password. Now no one can even see what the file names are. For added protection you could then encrypt the zip folder, but I don't think it would be necessary. Cheers Craig |
Craigb (688) | ||
| 138112 | 2003-04-25 05:45:00 | Is it possible with no addons progs under WinXP Pro?? | Dak2 (1963) | ||
| 138113 | 2003-04-25 05:53:00 | with xp pro try: start > help and support > type in efs and search for it :-) |
Captive (3159) | ||
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