Protect your USB stick free!

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Hi malware fighters,

75% of USB sticks have sensitive data on it that are unprotected. Remora is a nice free program to protect and encrypt private data on a USB disk to hide them against third party preying eyes:
http://www.richskills.com/products/6/freeversion.asp

polonus

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Polonus, I get a blank page clicking on the link… :cry:
Is it only me?

Did you use any other encrypting tool?
I’m using TrueCrypt and it seems very good, but, as always, just opening my mind to new applications 8)

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Hi Tech,

Hope this one works:
http://www.sofotex.com/Remora-USB-Disk-Guard-download_L31631.html

pol

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Thanks for the tip, polonus :wink:

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polonus
Any reason why this program calls home during the install?
Cancelling the install required intervention by taskmanager.
Doing it through the program wouldn’t work.

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May i ask why not use better following free ones to encrypt data (not just on USB sticks) anywhere

TrueCrypt http://www.truecrypt.org/
open source project

BestCrypt http://www.jetico.com/bcrypt7.htm
from author of free Jetico Personal Firewall

both of them are long time tested, reliable and well done …

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Free, reliable, stable, very tested, good cryptography 8)

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This may sound silly but of the 3 applications which is the easiest to use and understand. I was reading the info at bestcrypt and got confused, and didn’t like the idea of Remora calling home, so now I am inclined to get TrueCrypt as I use a USB stick all the time for backup.

Ro Ro

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Hi roro
If your the only one on your computer, you really don’t need any of these programs.
Encryption is great if you work or use your computer in an insecure environment where others may have access to your information.
I personally don’t need any of these programs and feel that all they do is add additional steps to get to my information.
If I needed the added security, I would also choose TrueCrypt over bestcrypt.

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well BC can do some stuff TC can’t do … also BC is older and more mature than TC … yet both are good …
of course opensource TC got it’s shine over BC in price as some features of BC exist only in paid version …

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Roro, if you need help on TrueCrypt, just post :wink:

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THANK YOU ALL!
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I did have trouble downloading the file with Freshdownload on Firefox, but when I used Gigaget with IE, it worked perfectly. I don’t know what the trouble was with Freshdownload.
I wouldn’t need encryption on my home machine, but I do use USB storage when we go to Europe in the Winter, and if I did lose one of my USB devices, I wouldn’t want my financial info etc to be in other peoples hands, so Truecrypt should work for me there. I guess I would use the Traveller mode. I will read the user manual and definitely post if I need help.

Ro Ro 8)

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You’ll have to download and install TrueCrypt in the ‘new’ computer or use a floppy to have TrueCrypt installation and uncrypt the USB drive.

We’re waiting :slight_smile: