Well, since you folks are so great at this AntiVirus stuff, and you haven’t banned me yet from posting, here’s a question that has nothing to do with Avast, but might has something to do with the great personnal who are here:
What, if any, do you folks use if you wanted to lock or hide certain folders on your drives?
Thanks.
Michael
If we’re talking about Win NT/2000/XP, using (=setting appropriate) Windows access rights should be enough for “locking”.
Ok. If you folks knew I am still running Win95, you probably wouldn’t even answer 
I searched your site last evening. WOW! You folks have done a great job at helping others with your lists of progs and tweaks for a person’s system.
I promise to do more searching of your forums before posting questions (didn’t even know I HAD a port 135 and certainly didn’t know it was open! Thanks!
Thanks again for all the work you folks have done for “us.”
Michael
We haven’t done anything yet but keep looking and welcome, sorry I can’t help with win 95 lost that years ago 8)
Edit there actually is a possibility, if your drive is partitioned you could put your private data on another partion and using tweakui from MS hide that partition from view. You will need to unhide when you want to access it though, but I believe it will be transparent to programmes for saves.
If you can tell us why you want/need to do this (perhaps we can suggest something) ?
Or are you simply trying to exclude some files or folders from being scanned ?
A google search for ‘windows 95 protect hide folders’ without the quotes returns many hits, this is just two of them:
http://www.fspro.net/hf/ this one is free.
http://www.everstrike.com/secure-password.htm this is not free.
If you have a little patience, take a look here: http://grc.com/port_135.htm
Welcome to avast forum 8)
Hey David,
No reason in particular. Had a nice piece of software back in 1999 named iProtect 1.5. International Software Solutions, based in Northern Ireland. They are closed now and any of their shareware products couldn’t be purchased anyway. It was just a nice little program and alerted you when you happened to click on a protected file on your drive. At least you could still SEE the folder “locked” in an Explorer view.
Sometimes we have people around here who are actually more curious than nosey and we used to lock the folders of certain drives when the beer caps started coming off. We are a very open family here, but not THAT open! It’s really no big deal anymore. I just put a note on the puter saying, “We are watching you! Touch it and Die!”
Don’t want anything hidden from any scans. Been so long since I’ve had to BE concerned about scanning that I’m kinda excited about scanning (Do you think I need therapy?)
(Do you think I need therapy?)lol We all need some kind of therapy MichaelJ07 don't ask me what kind? ;)
errors fixed after therapy
No therapy required, just a healthy dose of avast, welcome to the forums.