Protect Your PC From USB Threats

Not every body can keep their PC's clean all the time, some have a certain passion for attracting viruses. The major culprit here is the USB drives. The innocent looking USB (armed with viruses obviously) can take down most PC's with ease and can also steal all your private data. But with a few precautions you can protect your system from 99% of all USB attacks.

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Lock Your Windows PC With A Transparent Lock

You can always lock your Windows PC, without turning it off, by using the keyboard shortcut Win Key + L. But if you have programs running which you want others to see you can use a tiny application called ClearLock. This application unlike the regular Lock function in the operating system aims at disabling input to your computer while acting as a transparent layer.

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Turn your Keyboard into a network indicator

A small icon at the windows taskbar indicates the network activity of your computer. They blink every time data is sent from or to your PC. A similar method is there to indicate the network activity by using your keyboard using a small program so that you dont need to watch your monitor to see whether there is an active connection or not.

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Use lock and key to hide your private data

This is a very cool trick to hide your private folder from others which I read in TechnoGeekz. This trick changes the folder you want to hide to system icons and when you click on them you are taken to the corresponding system tab or folder.

To do this open notepad or any other text editing tool and type in the following:

ren XXX XXX.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}

where XXX is the name of the folder you want to hide.

Now save this file as lock.bat in the same drive where the folder is. That is if you are hiding the folder "C:\My Folder\XXX" then save lock.bat in "C:\My Folder".

Create another text file and type in it:

ren XXX.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D} XXX

Now save this text file as key.bat

Now you can see 2 batch files loc and key. Double click on lock.bat and the folder XXX will change to control panel and you cannot view its contents. Double click on key.bat and you will get back your original folder.

You can also turn the XXX to any icon as you like. Just change the text in blue to any of the following to get the corresponding icon.

{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}  -  Explorer
{0DF44EAA-FF21-4412-828E-260A8728E7F1}   -   Start menu properties
{6DFD7C5C-2451-11d3-A299-00C04F8EF6AF}  -   Folder Options
{7007ACC7-3202-11D1-AAD2-00805FC1270E}  -  Network Connections
{D20EA4E1-3957-11d2-A40B-0C5020524152}   -   Fonts Folder
{D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}   -   Shedule tasks
{E211B736-43FD-11D1-9EFB-0000F8757FCD}   -   Scanners & camera
{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}    -    Recycle bin
{2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D}  -   Printers Folder

This is a very cool way to hide all your personal data from others. Hide the loc and key to make sure no one finds your data.

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