Comments on: How to encrypt your USB flash drive

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 15:12:00 +0000

I use netwrix usb blocker. It does the trick without the encryption and it’s free. Works for me

By: John

John — Mon, 17 May 2010 01:21:54 +0000

Here is a youtube video we made about this:

How to encrypt a USB flash drive:

youtube.com/watch?v=BvR7nnG8iiY&fmt=22

Enjoy!

By: C Fas

C Fas — Tue, 04 May 2010 00:23:59 +0000

Thanks so much for all the encryption information, now that hackers have encrypted several usb drives and my entire hard drive. Thanks so much! Now can you tell average folk how to get the hackers out!

By: Lin

Lin — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:38:43 +0000

I use wondershare usb drive encryption for my protable storage media. it is easy to use and powerful. It’s not free, but really good if you want something that actually works.

disk-utilities.com/usb-encryption/index.html

By: Jenny

Jenny — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 03:32:42 +0000

Thanks for tips, it is useful. And i find the following simple and powerful usb encryption software which allows you to encrypt your usb drive in several simple steps. And it is portable.

By: Error 0

Error 0 — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:31:54 +0000

This is great IF you ONLY use the drive on the computer you encrypted it on. Remember that anyone with access to your user account can get at the files, and that it will be useless on other computers.

I recommend Truecrypt.

By: Sam

Sam — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:30:58 +0000

GiliSoft USB Stick Encryption helps you password protect USB drives, Thumb drives, Memory sticks, Pen drives, Jump drives and Flash drives.

USB flash drives are the most popular way to move data from one PC to another. They are small in size but can carry gigabytes of data. They are easy to use, convenient, affordable, but at the same time they pose a security risk and can be easily lost, stolen or misplaced. A secure USB drive with password protection is a must these days as the data that it contains may cost you millions of dollars if stolen or lost.

With GiliSoft USB Stick Encryption your USB flash drives and all other external storage devices can be very easily password protected. To protect your USB drives ,you can use GiliSoft USB Stick Encryption to install this encryption software onto your USB flash drive.After installing the software, the device will be password protected and encrypted by 256-bit AES. To access your data again, You can plug-in your USB drive into the computer and run the program “agent.exe” on your USB drive. To unprotect your secure USB drives, click ‘Uninstall’ and enter correct user name and password to uninstall this encryption software from the drive. Another great feature of GiliSoft USB Stick Encryption is that it divides USB drive into two areas: public area and secure area. You can store normal files in public area, and store sensitive data in secure area. On the contrary, all the files located in the secure area will be encrypted and absolutely private.

By: George

George — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:29:50 +0000

I am looking for the posting on how to export ESF certificates from one computer to another.

By: Fiona

Fiona — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:43:22 +0000

“Next week, I’ll talk about how you can export the EFS certificate from one computer to another, so that you can view the files on more than one PC. Enjoy!” I can’t find this posting. Or is it still coming?

Same query – January 2010

By: mike

mike — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:21:00 +0000

The best software to encrypt your USB stick is TrueCrypt. It’s super secure and easy to setup.

By: Yvonne

Yvonne — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 03:13:45 +0000

The thing with Bitlocker is it doesn’t work with older Windows computers, so if you carry your USB flash drive around eventually you will not be able to use it on an older PC.

I currently use WinEncrypt (http://www.winencrypt.com) CryptArchiver, it works on all Windows versions, and is portable so it’s fully installed on the drive itself. I believe you can use different types of encryption, and it adds an encrypted vault in ‘My Computer’.

Best part is it’s simpler and faster than TC, my Granny uses it regularly.. in fact she introduced me to it – now how often can I say that?

By: bobby.tables

bobby.tables — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 07:03:22 +0000

I use TrueCrypt for encrypting my USB drives. It’s free, it’s for multiple OS and it’s Open Source so there are no back doors etc. There is also a portable version so you can put it on the drive as well to be able to open the encrypted files later even if TrueCrypt is not installed.

By: John Glenn

John Glenn — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:23:52 +0000

You could also use Truecrypt in portable mode (http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/truecrypt-portable)

By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:30:42 +0000

I thinks this method is quite easy for securing a flash drive, but if you want something more secure, then you should pay for it.

softry.com/reviews/securityaprivacy/152-encrypt-your-usb-drives.html

By: paone

paone — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:26:41 +0000

thanx……..how to partition a USB flash drive???