Securing home PC

[Ruprect]

Hi all,

I should, being a techie, know better, but at the moment I don't have my home pc drives encrypted, and should the PC be nicked there would be a lot of interesting stuff for any would be identity thief.

What do you all use to secure your home drives? Does it give you much aggravation opening/locking all the time? Is it integrated with you windows login?

Ta.

[_V_]

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/223316/

Hopefully this helps.

[Ruprect]

Nice one ta

[Bob Dalek]

Hi all,

I should, being a techie, know better, but at the moment I don't have my home pc drives encrypted, and should the PC be nicked there would be a lot of interesting stuff for any would be identity thief.

What do you all use to secure your home drives? Does it give you much aggravation opening/locking all the time? Is it integrated with you windows login?

Ta.

TrueCrypt

[minestrone]

Hi all,

I should, being a techie, know better, but at the moment I don't have my home pc drives encrypted, and should the PC be nicked there would be a lot of interesting stuff for any would be identity thief.

What do you all use to secure your home drives? Does it give you much aggravation opening/locking all the time? Is it integrated with you windows login?

Ta.

Don't use the swirly face thing.

[voodooflux]

TrueCrypt

WHS - big fan of TrueCrypt for securing external drives and USB keys.

[minestrone]

WHS - big fan of TrueCrypt for securing external drives and USB keys.

Is it directory based or drive based?

By that I have left a readme.txt on my USB drive that i hope someone would notice if it was lost and would not want to encrypt that. Also can the client run off the USB without install to the PC?

[voodooflux]

Is it directory based or drive based?

By that I have left a readme.txt on my USB drive that i hope someone would notice if it was lost and would not want to encrypt that. Also can the client run off the USB without install to the PC?

You can either encrypt a entire volume or partition, or create a virtual file-based encrypted disk which you can then mount.

With regard to encrypting a USB stick, the following is from the FAQ:

Q: How can I use TrueCrypt on a USB flash drive?

A: You have two options:

Encrypt the entire USB flash drive. However, you will not be able run TrueCrypt from the USB flash drive.
Note: Windows does not support multiple partitions on USB flash drives.


Create a TrueCrypt file container on the USB flash drive (for information on how to do so, see the chapter Beginner's Tutorial, in the TrueCrypt User Guide). If you leave enough space on the USB flash drive (choose an appropriate size for the TrueCrypt container), you will also be able to store TrueCrypt on the USB flash drive (along with the container – not in the container) and you will be able to run TrueCrypt from the USB flash drive (see also the chapter Traveler Mode in the TrueCrypt User Guide).

[HeliCraig]

TrueCrypt

WHS+

VDF is quite correct, you can either encrypt the whole disk or put "file" on the disk which is infact an encrypted TrueCrypt volume. I use it this way, and also have the "Reward If Found.txt" file on the root.

Its fairly unintrusive - you do have to enter the volumes password on boot up though!

[minestrone]

Cheers, I will give TrueCrypt a we run around tomorrow, on client time obviously.