HOW TO LOCK AND SECURE YOUR PC WITH A FLASH DRIVE.

HOW TO LOCK AND SECURE YOUR PC WITH A FLASH DRIVE.

Wow can you believe it, you can finally secure your pc from intruders , i mean 100% secured.

As we all know there are so many ways of protecting your system from intruders, some people make use of the normal window password which can be easily cracked, while others make use of administrative passwords.Manufaturers of computers even went as far as providing various types of security means ranging from eye scanners, face regconition,finger prints readers e.t.c. These are good ways to protect your system from intruders, but is your system 100% secured? I think you should answer that question.

Today am going to teach you how to totally secure your system from intruders.

STEPS ON HOW TO PROTECT YOUR PC WITH A USB FLASH DRIVE

1. Download predator 32 bit
64 bits
and install it.
2. After installation , double click on the desktop icon a dialog would pop up asking you to enter a password and to prepare a flash drive

3. Insert your flash drive and Type the password of your choice in the "New Password" field. You will use it to unlock your session if you lose your USB key.
You must enter at least 6 characters, letters, figures or signs. The password is case sensitive (uppercase and lowercase letters are different). Do nottype characters that require the AltGrkey because this key is disabled in the Password Dialog.

4.Check that the drive letter displayed under "USB key drive" actually matches your flash drive or choose thecorrect letter from the dropdown list.

5.Click the "Create key" button.

6Finally, click "Ok"
Predator will exit after this setup procedure:



Finally, click the Predator icon installedon the desktop to restart the program. When you restart Predator, initialization takes a few seconds, then a green ball icon should flash in the system tray:

Bravo fella.

MERITS OF USING PREDATOR

1. Protect several computers with a single flash drive.

2.Protect a computer with several flash drives
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3. PREDATOR can send alert messages by Email.

4 PREDATOR can take a picture of the person who tries to use your computer and attach it to an emailor upload it to a remote server.

5.PREDATOR records all security-relatedevents in a log file: start, alarms, stop.By reading this log, you will know if intruders have tried to use your computer while you have been away.

6.PREDATOR can replicate this log on your Twitter account, allowing you to remotely monitor all access-control activity on your PC.

7.PREDATOR frequently changes the security codes recorded on your USB drive. If an intruder manages to copy your stick, this copy will not work because the codes on your own stick will have changed in the meantime.

8.PREDATOR disables the Windows task manager when you unplug the USB drive. Nobody can stop it with Ctrl-Alt-Del.

9.PREDATOR disables the CD Autorun feature in Windows, to prevent intruders from running malware on specially crafted CDs.

10.PREDATOR lets you regain control of your computer if you lose your stick: when you start the software for the first time, you set a password that willunlock your session if your USB drive is not available.

11.PREDATOR can sound an audible alarm if somebody enters an invalid password.


12.And finally,PREDATOR can protect several PCs with the same USB flash drive, e.g. your home and office computers.

DEMERITS OF USING PREDATOR

1. If you miss place your flash drive you won't be able to open your system.

ADVICE

1. Make use of two to three flash drives . Just so if one gets missing you could make use of the other two.

2. You can also learn how to encrypt your flash drive HERE... Just so if an intruder happens to make use of your flash drive to open your system. He/she has to first unlock your flash drive .


Source: http://www.predator-usb.com/predator/en/index.php

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