Beer Good

I occasionally work from home, and have sensitive data on my home PC, how can I protect it? I'm talking about pdf's etc, not excel which i know you can protect.

Can you protect at the folder level?

Thanks,
Steve

what would scooby do

Your **** collection should be held on a separate PC than the one you use for work

Beer Good

You're not helping.

Edited to say: what **** I have isn't worth protecting!!

Soulgirl

Yay... here you go!

http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article...,110663,00.asp

Soulgirl

I'm glad you asked that question, because I have been wondering the same myself for ages so I'm pleased I found out...

Keef69

Is it not just easier to have seperate user log-in's. That's how I got round it, kids log on to their settings and can't access my files, I hope!


Still, glad you found it too, might just do that from now on, just in case!

Nick

Make sure that you don't give the kids admin rights, otherwise they can browse to your folders.

grpbrallyfan

iTrader: (1)

If you have separate logons, you can have restricted access so that only your logon (not even any other admins) can access your documents, unless you put them in shared, i think it might be when you add a password that it does this.

James

Kevin Greeley

In Win2k and XP you can encrypt all your files under one logon id and nobody, not even another administrator will be able to read/view them (unless they can crack 56 bit encryption which can be done but takes a very long time).

James Neill

iTrader: (1)

I use the following app. It basically creates a virtual disk that's encrypted. Works indpendently of Windows - which I gives me a little more confidence.

http://www.dekart.com/products/file_...te_disk_light/

mike1210

easier still give them user access. disable simple file sharing and deny access to the group users. Job done, no password though. Edited to add, that only works with pro XP though

Soulgirl

Also.... this works well for protecting folders from change or deletion (XP by default will have assigned simple sharing - you will need to uncheck that in the Folder Options first)

1. Folder -> Properties
2. Security Tab
3. Advanced
4. Permissions tab
5. Uncheck "Inherit from parent..."
6. Click "Add..."
7. Enter user names etc...
8. In the "Permission Entry for "
8.1 Check everything except "Full control", "Delete Subfolders/Files" & "Delete" in the "ALLOW" column
8.2 Check "Delete Subfolders/Files" & "Delete" in the "DENY" column.
9. Apply the settings to "This folder/subfolders/files"