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The traditional way of locking Windows when you move out of your desktop or laptop involves entering the password when you are back. If you are looking for a better solution to this, then Predator is a perfect choice. Predator locks your PC when you are away, even if your Windows session is still opened and it uses a regular USB flash drive as an access control device. Once you have configured the application, you can easily lock and unlock the Windows using the USB drive.

You can create a password and this password will be used in case you lose the USB drive. The application provides option to set the screen darkness, multiple monitors, hide desktop icons and also to minimize all windows before locking.

This utility will not alter the files inside your USB Drive. You will be able to use your USB drive normally. The application sits in system tray and does the monitoring. You can also set the interval for monitoring. The application checks for your connected USB drive during the interval set and once USB is missing it automatically locks your PC.

Predator is really an innovative program to lock your PC and its worth a try.

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Panda Security has released a new security software program that increases the security of USB flash drives. The portable software program called USB Vaccine offers the means to immunize both the computer system and USB flash drives.

Computer vaccination referring to disabling autorun completely from removable media like USB flash drives or optical drives like CDs or DVD drives. To enable the security of the computer system from programs that are auto-executed if USB flash drives or CDs or DVDs are plugged into the computer drives.

A click on Vaccinate computer button will straightaway disable autorun on the computer system. The USB drive vaccination choice on the other hand will disable autorun from selected USB flash drives. The drives have to be plugged to the computer system before the computer can be protected. Every connected USB flash drive will be enrolled in a pulldown menu. A click on Vaccinate USB button will forbid autorun.inf from being executed from that USB flash drive.

It should be noted that it is not possible to undo the autorun protection of a selected USB flash drive in the computer system using the protection software. Another restriction is that it will only work on USB flash drives that have been formatted with the FAT or FAT32 filing system.

Panda Research USB Vaccine increases the security of a computer system in regards to USB flash drives and other media with autorun capabilities. The security software has been tested under Windows Vista, Windows XP and even Windows 2000.

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The AUTORUN.INF is a configuration file from removable drives that decides which actions to perform when a new external storage device, such as a DVD or USB drive is plugged in to the PC. Unfortunately, malwares like Heap41a take full advantage of this feature in order to spread themselves. This is achieved by copying a malicious executable onto the removable drives and infecting the autorun.inf file, instructing its own malicious file to run silently in the background.

Panda USB and AutoRun Vaccine is a freeware developed by Panda Security to stop the spreading of viruses via removable drives.

As the name suggests, USB Vaccine “vaccinates” PC by disabling Autorun.inf completely so that there is no program could run from any removable drives. In other word, disabling the autorun feature will effectively raise security level of your computer.

For the time being, Panda USB and Autorun Vaccine works only on FAT and FAT 32 USB drives.

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