Securing home PC

[pmeswani]

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.

I'm an advocate of PGP (the non-freeware version), as this gives full disk encryption and email identity validation as well as email encryption. PGP can also, if memory serves, do partial disk / folder encryption. One of my decent investments. All I need to do now is to encrypt my main hard drive on my laptop and buy another license for my other computer.

[Dante]

For whole disk encryption i'd look at Becrypt - for anything external i'd use truecrypt.