24. How to protect your files and folders from hackers with Folder Lock?
Folder Lock is the perfect choice to protect your PC and important files from hackers and other outside intrusions. It is a file encryption software that takes only seconds to encrypt your data, even if it is in GBs. It applies 256-bit AES encryption algorithm.
With Folder Lock you have so many options on what you want to password protect like you can protect all your files including Word documents, Excel sheets, Presentations, MP3s, Videos, Pics, Books or Application files downloaded from KaZaa, Limwire, BearShare, Morpheus, iMesh or other P2P programs.
Folder Lock comes with more than twenty privacy protecting feature and one of them is its strong password locking protection that ensures maximum security of your files and folders. No matter how hard a hacker or a trojan horse software tries to get into the locked folders and files, its not possible to break the password locking protection of Folder Lock.
Folder Lock does not allow hackers and outside intruders to access your protected files and folders, even if they format your hard disk using special Trojan horse tools. Furthermore, Folder Lock with its Virtual Keyboard prevents all possible key-logging tools that might be running on your computer for monitoring your keystrokes. Since no keystrokes will be pressed, you can be sure that the password you enter through Virtual Keyboard is safe from key-logging attempts. To access Virtual Keyboard, click the arrow button on the left side of Folder Lock.
Latest version of Folder Lock comes with an exceptionally useful feature 'Hack Attempt Monitoring' that keeps a very close eye on any intrusion, attack or hacking attempt made on Locker. The program also prevents dictionary attacks and brute force cracking by delaying animation duration for a few seconds once a password is entered and 'OK' button is clicked. This will prevent hackers who may try many different combinations of passwords to get through your files. Folder Lock also protects files from hacker tools when you connect to the internet.
Although 'Hack Attempt Monitoring' feature is active by default, but you can deactivate this option if you do not want the program to create a log of fake login attempts.
This program also produces a load beep when an incorrect password is entered to alert the administrator of possible hack attempt. Furthermore, Folder Lock doesn't save the password in the registry or the disk, preventing hackers and crackers.
To activate/deactivate 'Hack Attempt Monitoring', follow these instructions:
- • Run the software and enter password to open or create a locker.
- • Click ‘Options’ and then 'Hack Attempt Monitoring'.
- • Check/uncheck ‘Monitoring (On/Off)’ either to activate or deactivate the feature.
- • Folder Lock will lock or shutdown your computer if a hacker makes more than five fake login attempts. You can choose either ‘Lock PC’ or ‘Shut Down PC’ and then click ‘Done’.
Folder Lock monitors and keeps a log of all the incorrect passwords ever been used to hack into your files. This information is useful for you, so that you know who's trying to breach your privacy.
Folder Lock is an ultimate solution for both online and offline threats and does its job pretty well by securing files better than any other program of its type, using both DOS and Windows based locking techniques.
