Monitor Computer’s Activities with Keylogger

For children who are using your computer or laptop, many parents will adopt parental control program such as keylogger to decide which websites or applications children can use on the computer. If you tend to store your important personal files or your working data in your computer, you must want to make sure that people are using your PC appropriately, Anykeylogger provides you with ideal solution, which allows you to control children’s Internet use including the amount of time, websites browsed and applications run in the PC. This program is user friendly, it’s easy to install and use, it does not demand any high level of IT knowledge. This program is invisible in the computer; even more computer-savvy youngsters can’t find it.

Anykeylogger is also very useful in the workplace since it helps administrators to well manage employees’ network use and IT resources. The software can record comprehensive logs which you can know that whether your employees effectively use computer during working time. It will also tell you what websites, applications they have used and who they have talked with during working hours. Administrators can also use the function of computer monitoring to ensure company’s confidential data and information will not be disclosed due to employees’ misconducts of computer.

This program is an easy and user-friendly solution coupled with a simple yet highly effective interface. After installing the software, it’s running hidden in the background occupying minimal system resources. It secretly runs and cannot be detected by antivirus programs as well as person who is monitored, the admin of this program can set login password for it to prevent unauthorized accessing it, giving the logs recorded by this program completed protection. With the protection of password, settings of the programs installed in employees’ computers cannot be changed and admin don’t need worry the software will be turned off. Of course, the monitoring actions to employees should be known by employees, it should be noticed in the company management regulations and every employee who is fresh in the company should learn about this fact.

Anykeylogger is a perfect solution for anyone who needs to monitor and manipulate the use of your computer; no matter it is going to be used for monitoring children in the family as parental control tool or for monitoring employees in the workplace as company network management tool. With its help, you can easily master first hand materials of what the computer is doing no matter you are a parent or an administrator.

How to Protect Folder in Windows 7 freely?

Some people want to know whether there’s a way to password protect folders in Windows 7. Of course, you can find many means to password protect a folder with or without software. Regardless of secure level, you can use the Windows built-in function to complete the protection. If you have more requirements about secure level, you can turn to third party software. Now let’s learn how to password protect folder in Windows 7 with different solutions.

Part one: Password Protect Folder in Windows 7 without software

1.       Set multiple user accounts

The most basic means is to set multiple user accounts and set a password for admin account, so that you can prevent specific users from accessing the folders.

a.       Click on “Start”-> “Control Panel”.

b.       Click on “Add or remove user accounts” under “User Accounts and Family Safety”.

c.       Click on “Create a new account”, and then input account name and choose “Standard user”.

d.       Login with admin account and right-click on the target folder, select Properties in the menu.

e.       Navigate to Security tab and then click on “Edit”.

f.        Choose user account in the popup window and assign permissions to finish the settings.

This solution is not that useful when you login with admin account and leave away from the PC for a moment. Other people can get the opportunity to access the folder stored in your PC without any obstacles.

2.       Create a quick batch script

You can also use protect and hide folders by creating a quick batch script.

a.       You need to create a new folder to contain the files to be protected, and then create a text file in the folder.

b.       Copy the following code into the text file:

cls

@ECHO OFF

title Folder Private

if EXIST "HTG Locker" goto UNLOCK

if NOT EXIST Private goto MDLOCKER

:CONFIRM

echo Are you sure you want to lock the folder(Y/N)

set/p "cho=>"

if %cho%==Y goto LOCK

if %cho%==y goto LOCK

if %cho%==n goto END

if %cho%==N goto END

echo Invalid choice.

goto CONFIRM

:LOCK

ren Private "HTG Locker"

attrib +h +s "HTG Locker"

echo Folder locked

goto End

:UNLOCK

echo Enter password to unlock folder

set/p "pass=>"

if NOT %pass%== PASSWORD_GOES_HERE goto FAIL

attrib -h -s "HTG Locker"

ren "HTG Locker" Private

echo Folder Unlocked successfully

goto End

:FAIL

echo Invalid password

goto end

:MDLOCKER

md Private

echo Private created successfully

goto End

:End

c.       Change the PASSWORD_GOES_HERE text to your password, and then save the file as locker.bat.

d.       After that, you can get a locker in the folder, double click the locker, a folder named private will be generated in the folder. Add files to be protected into the private folder and run the locker.

e.       Input “Y” and press enter in the popup window to lock the folder.

As you can see, this solution is complicated to lock file. You need to store the code in advance, and find it out every time when you want to lock a folder.

What’s more, if you want to password protect Microsoft documents, you can use the built in protection function of Word or Excel.

Part 2: Password Protect Folder in Windows 7 with Software

Some people who have requirements of secure level had better use third party software, for such kind of software generally adopts the strongest 256-bit on- the- fly AES encryption technology to lock files and protect file content.

1.       With 7-zip

7-zip is a third party compressing program. For ZIP and GZIP formats, it provides a compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than the ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip, in addition, it adopts strong AES-256 encryption in 7z and ZIP formats.

a.       Download and install the program in your PC.

b.       Select the folder that you want to password protect. Right-click and select 7-Zip from the menu. From the second menu, select “Add to archive”.

c.       Add password and confirm it on the right side of 7-size window. Select your encryption form and click “Ok”.

This solution seems easy to encrypt; it allows you to password protect files in bulk. But it takes much time to decompressing folders if you compress large files in the zip file.

2.       With Kakasoft Folder Protector

Kakasoft Folder Protector is designed for file password protection. It’s very easy to use, and you even don’t need to install the program. It can protect folder in several steps and takes several seconds with normal secure level.

a.       Download the program and copy the client into the target folder.

b.       Double click the client, input and confirm your password, click on “Protect” to finish the encryption.

As for sensitive and confidential file, you can use the high or higher secure level of this program to lock. In addition, this program allows user to view files in the protected mode, the protection will be automatically restored when you stop view the files, which saves much time for user. Apart from protecting folder in PC, it can also be used to protect folders on hard drives as well as USB flash drives, external hard drives, thumb drives, memory sticks, memory cards, jump drives and pen drives etc.

Conclusion:

For people who want to protect personal folder in PC, choosing an effective and suitable way is important. If you don’t want to spend any money, you can choose to use the built in protection solution provided by Windows OS; if you want to protect folder in high secure mode, you’d better use third party software to do this.

More details: http://www.kakasoft.com/folder-protect/password-protect-folder-on-windows-7.html

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	This type of keylogger is easy to install and use. Its rich functions leave me a good impression.It's not only a keylogger that can be used to record computer activities, but also a parental control tool that can be used to control and manage chidlren's Internet use.And I like its main interface,straightforward and user-friendly.	It flexibly allows you to configure multiple alerts on harmful or offensive keystrokes sent or received on target computer. You can set alarms, and get notified instantly with real-time alerts if a pre-defined event happens on their PC.But it lacks some features if you want to take it as a parental control tool.	This keylogger is very very simple. If you just want to record keystrokes and screenshots, you can choose it.	It can run on both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows 7, Vista and XP. Unfortunately, the rest of the operating systems are not supported.Its main interface is nice and functions can basically meet users' need of a keylogger.Its price is the highest among all the six keyloggers.It will be better if it can record both side of chats	It has comprehensive functions as a keylogger program, and it works well in recording keystrokes and capturing screenshots, etc.But its delivery feature sometimes fails to work, and for me its price is a little bit high.	It can do most things of that is supposed to be done by a keylogger, while it fails to log email.Other functions works well.
Summary:If you just need a keylogger that can be used to record strokes and screenshots, you can use Revealer Keylogger or Ardamax Keylogger.If you need a keylogger to help you do more things, such as parental control, you'd better choose the other keyloggers, for they have more functions.Judging from price,function, and performance,I think Anykeylogger and Refog Keylogger are better choices.

How to completely protect your USB?

As more and more individuals and enterprises are emphasizing on the importance of data security. Password protection technology has become a hot topic nowadays. Today, I'm going to show my own opinions about a variety of data protection methods based on my experience.

Part one: Protect your USB from being accessed

There's a kind of products that aims at protecting external hard drives, such as USB flash drive, pen drive, memory card, thumb drive etc.This kind of encryption products is designed for password protecting files stored in flash drives. USB encryption products can be divided into encryption hardware, encryption software and encryption method built in Windows OSes.

1.      Secure data with USB encryption hardware.

The first one is just a kind of special USB flash drives with built-in fingerprint processing technology, some USB encryption hard drive allows owner to set several admin fingerprints and user fingerprints. In addition to the fingerprints identification, the USB encryption hardware provides second layer of protection---you can set password for the USB. However, the price of this kind of hardware is a little bit high. Maybe you will say that it's worthwhile for data security, while what if you need many these USB flash drives? That would be a significant amount of expense.

2.      Protect USB with bitlocker

Bitlocker drive belongs to the second classification; it is free to encrypt external hard drives in some Windows OSes. Bitlocker is able to protect hard drives from physical access to the drive. That's to say, if someone take your hard drive from you and connect it to another PC trying to access the data in it, the Bitlocker will make the drive unreadable. This function adopts 128 bit or 256 bit encryption technology, which is strong enough to protect the data stored in computer and USBs. What's more, it's completely free. However, it has many shortcomings, for example: it can only be used to lock the entire hard drive; and time needed for encryption is depends on the memory space, it's generally very slow. And there's another problem, Bitlocker drive isn't supported by all Windows operating systems, Windows 7 Professional, Windows Vista Business Edition and the Home Editions do not include BitLocker.

3.  Protect USB by TrueCrypt

Regarding to USB encryption software, there’re many such kind of programs on the Internet. TrueCrypt is freeware and you can follow the tutorial on the site to learn how to use it. As its description on the site, there're only four requirements for you to complete the USB encryption: a computer with a USB port, a computer with a Windows operating system, a user account with 'administrator' rights, a USB stick. However, I have to say that the process of whole encryption with this program is too complex. Nowadays, people are all searching for tools that are effective and easy to install and use. I just try to lock my flash drive with it once and then have no interest to use it again. Concerning this point, Kakasoft USB security is better than it. It's easy to install and easy to use, you can complete encryption in several steps. This software is able to lock individual files in USB, while it can't prevent others storing files in the USB flash drive.

4.  Protect USB by hiding in partition

And there's another way that can be found on the Internet---creating a hidden partition on USB flash drive to hide all files. Actually, this method is useful for people to backup files so as to avoid unintentionally formatting data. If you want to password protect files stored in the USB flash drives, you need to use another encryption program to set a password for it.

Part two: Protect individual file or folder in USB

1.       Manually protect each file

Sometimes we often need to share our files in USB with others. However, we may store some files that we don’t want others to view them. In this situation, what should we do? In fact, some files have built-in password protection function, for example, word, power point, excel, etc. which allow you to save them with a password.  Of course, the secure level of this kind of built-in protection is not that high; some programs even don't have this function, such as picture, software and so on.

2.       Protect folder on USB by Kakasoft folder protector

Regarding to the problem above, I choose to adopt folder protector software to protect individual files in PC or USB flash drives. In order to protect different forms of documents in one time, I put them in one folder and encrypt the folder with this software. However this software can only be used in Windows operating systems.

Conclusion:

There are always many topics about data security, and there are always many solutions to data leakage. Data security is not only a problem of enterprise; it's also a problem of our individuals. How to find out an effective data encryption program that is suitable for us? In my opinion, try and test are necessary; besides, searching relevant knowledge on forums and collecting others advices will also help you a lot.

Resource: 

http://www.wikihow.com/Completely-Protect-Your-USB