Thursday, August 19, 2010

Protect USB Stick With Password

USB Disk or USB stick or flash disk is very handy data storage, almost all people it for sharing data with friends. By frequently change hands for data exchange, it has high risk of data lost or contaminated by virus that can infecting your computer. How to avoid it?

In this post, we review a tool called Rohos Mini Drive which enable you to encript your flash drive with a password! The application is portable freeware that no need for installation.

How it work?

Rohos Mini Drive Creates hidden and encrypted partition on the USB flash drive memory. If you have many private files on the USB drive and want to keep them in secret, you can protect them by a password and strong encryption with Rohos Mini Drive. Portable version allows to work with encrypted USB drive partition on any PC.

Fitures :

  • Creates a encrypted partition or container on USB flash drive or portable HDD.
  • Encrypted partition is protected by a password.
  • Encryption is automatic and on-the-fly. AES 256 bit key length. Using NIST compliant encryption standards.
  • Portable Rohos Disk Browser allows to use encrypted partition on any PC without Admin rights, without install.
  • File Virtualization - prevents secret data leak outside encrypted disk on TEMP folders, Registry, Recent documents list, etc.
  • Secured virtual keyboard - protect encrypted disk password from a keylogger.
  • Free Edition limit - 2 GB encryption size only.
How To install it?

Rohos Mini Drive is portable and don't require administrative rights to apply it at flash disk, first step for making a encryption to your flash disk , You need to install this the application at your PC. This will require administrative rights.

* * Download Rohos Mini Drive

* * Click twice file exe which you downloaded.

* * Choose wanted language. Available of English, Prancis, Jerman, Dutch, Italian and Portugis.

* * Follow wizard according to the installation instruction.




Want to know more about rohos click here to visit the official site!!
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How To Install Windows 7 From FlashDisk Drive

The First job we have to do is creating Bootable USB Drive or Falshdisk using Koala that you can download here. This software enable us to make bootable USB thumb drive installer for Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows Server System 2008!

A bootable USB very important for installing Windows at a system without optical drive like netbook. Netbooks have small measure, cost-effective and light, hardly suited for usage of computer in general and access the application of being based on web. Netbook optimization for computer base on low weight and low cost, and the market share increased for consumer in developing countries. But without existence of optical drive at netbooks, hence activity of OS installation like Windows very difficult. Koala provide solution for this problems, You can make bootable USB thumb drive installer for Windows Windows 7 and Windows Vista.

Koala make bootable USB from CD Windows is not ISO. So to create abootable USB thumb drive, You require computer implementing Windows ( Windows XP or newer), DVD for OS Windows you want make a USB bootable installer ( Windows 7, Vista Windows Server System 2008) , NET framework. 2.0 or higher level and USB flashdisk with 4 GB of capacity.

Bellow is the steps of creating bootable USB drive :
  1. Download then istall koala on your system
  2. Insert your Windows 7 DVD into your DVD room.
  3. Insert flashdisk with  4GB capacity.
  4. Run Koala.
  5. Click Scan on Source for doing scan source ( optical drive) of OS which you want to make bootable USB.
  6. Click Scan on Destination for doing scan USB drive.
  7. Then, click Start to strart process.
If still confuse take a look at the screenshoot bellow!


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How To Make A Good Safe Password

In creating a password for an account, we may not promiscuously creating it if we don't want our password  to be hacked by hacker. Especially password concerning monetary transaction. A fatal Mistake in creating password is by using our name, our house number, cell/phone number, or even place & date of our birth. By using those kind of combination would facilitate hacker to hacked our password.
Following is tips make safe password from hacker attack.

 Firstly, always apply character in maximum. Usually in creating password is determined amount of minimum characters and amount of maximal characters which we can apply. Apply character maximally. Because progressively long character which we applied hence password progressively difficult to be guessed by others ( hacker).

 Second, avoid to apply our person data. Try to avoid to apply personal data, like our name, name of child or name of our couple, name of town and others. If was definites party (sides hitting personal data in detail hence them to easily guess our password by using the data.

 Third, apply block letters and lower case combination. In making password, we usually apply lower case. Would be better peaceful and if we applied block letters and lower case combination, thereby will complicate hacker for tracing it.

 Fourth, apply number and letter combination. We also can apply number and letter combination in a password which we create. With the combination will complicate irresponsible party to know our password.

 Fifth, apply tool for random password. If wish, we can apply free third party tool and also paying for making password peaceful from other party attack.

 Sixth, don't write down password at place of anything as well as ascertaining we don't advise password to whom even also included our family.

 Seventh
, change password periodical. By changing password routinely expected to progressively complicate other party for guessing password our.




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