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Ghacks Christmas Giveaway: USB Safely Remove
Day 15 of the Ghacks Christmas Giveaway. We got 10 more software products for you for which we will hand out licenses. Today's software program is special as it is the first one that can will be handed...
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Increase USB Security With USB Cop
The Autorun feature is a big security risk on the Windows operating system. It is a risk even if you are the only person accessing the computer. Remember the Sony rootkit incident a while ago? Guess...
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USB Flashdrive Benchmark
Check Flash is a small portable software program for Microsoft Windows operating systems that can be used to benchmark usb flashdrives. The application will automatically recognize connected removable...
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USB Flash Drive Write Protection
System administrators might want to limit the use of external USB flash drives by making them read only. This can actually be useful in several situations like preventing users from copying local data...
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USB 3.0: What You Need To Know About SuperSpeed USB
USB 1.0 and USB 2.0 are serial bus standards that connect devices to computer systems. Most users probably know USB from devices like external hard drives, keyboards, mice but also mobile devices which...
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USB Flash Drives Cleaner
USB Driver Fresher has been designed to clean USB flash drives automatically when they are plugged into the computer system the software program is running on. The program uses rules to automatically...
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How To Protect USB Sticks And The Data On Them
Carrying an USB-stick around with you can be beneficial in numerous situations. USB devices are for instance ideal to copy data without having to carry a larger device like a notebook or netbook...
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USB Waechter, Only Allow Whitelisted USB Devices PC Access
One of the major causes for PC infections with worms, viruses and trojans are USB devices that are connected to the computer. Vulnerabilities in the past have shown that it is sometimes enough to...
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Playboy Release USB Hard Disk Crammed with Back-Issues
It's not the first time we've seen external hard disks sold complete with libraries of goodies on board but this one is a little different. Reg Hardware has reportedthat US soft-porn giant Playboy is...
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Find Out How Much Power USB Devices Need
Each USB port can provide power to connected devices. This is not always necessary, especially if those devices have their own external power supply. But some devices need the power provided by the USB...
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How To Enable Write Protection Of USB Devices Under Windows
You have probably seen the following scenario in multiple thriller and spy movies; A spy connects an USB stick to a computer to copy data from the computer to the device. Movies do not necessarily...
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USB Dummy Protect, Create Fake Files To Block Viruses
Question: How can you protect USB devices like sticks or drives from being infected with computer viruses? Some users are lucky enough to have USB devices that have write protection switches, just like...
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Apple to pioneer USB Drive Software
I'vee been waiting patiently for this moment for years and it comes as no surprise to me that it's Apple leading innovation in the software sales market. The company launched their new OS X Lion...
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Free USB Guard, Never Forget Your USB Flash Drive Again
It is pretty easy to forget to remove an USB Flash drive or stick from a computer system on shutdown. Some devices are that small that it is easy to overlook them when shutting down a computer. While...
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USB Manager, Manage USB Device Types
USB is currently the most popular way of connecting external devices to the computer. The majority of external storage devices, printers, scanners, audio devices with built in sound chips and other...
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Log USB Drive Connections In Windows With USBLogView
Can you find out if someone else has been on your PC, has connected an external USB drive to it, and copied data from it to the drive? Tools like USBDeview tell you which USB devices have been...
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BitDefender USB Immunizer 3.0 Update Released
USB Immunizer was launched by BitDefender exactly a year ago as a free complimentary security tool to protect the system against attacks using Windows' autorun functionality. The tool therefor is...
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Manage USB access rights with USB Disk Manager
When you connect a removable USB drive to a Windows PC, you will notice that it works in many regards like any other hard drive or storage device on the PC from that moment on. You can copy files on...
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Blink(1), The Super Status Light on Kickstarter
I really love to spend time on Kickstarter to look at new cool projects that I may be interested in. Just a few days ago we have seen the incredible rise of the Android-based gaming console OUYA to...
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Control USB Device rights with Phrozen Safe USB
Attacks against computer systems can originate from a variety of locations, be it via email, network attacks, websites or malicious files that make their way on the computer via USB devices. While...
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Credit card sized USB drive
Now this one is a neat little gadget. This credit card sized USB drive has a capacity of up to 8 GB, uses USB 2.0 and runs driver free on Windows XP+2000 and Mac OS X. The card measures 6mm in height...
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How to disable USB Drives
If you are not using external USB devices at all, or if company policy forbids their usage, you may want to disable them on the computer systems in the network. What you may not want to do however is...
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How to dump all USB files without the user knowing
USBdumper runs silently as a background process once started and copies the complete contents of every connected usb device to the system without the knowledge of the user. It creates a directory with...
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Find out which devices have been connected to your pc
Normally you do not see which devices have been connected to your computer in the past. It can be interesting to say the least to find out if someone else connected a device to your computer in your...
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Check which usb devices have been connected to your computer
I published a guide about three months ago which highlighted how a small tweak in the Windows Registry allowed you to display previously connected usb devices in the device manager.While this method is...
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Use PStart to access your portable devices
PStart is a nice handy application that makes it easy to start applications or open folders on your portable devices. It is an application launcher that runs straight from any portable device you move...
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Secure USB Device called Flash Padlock
I barely finished the article about the first USB devices with an build in Iris scanner when the next developer announced a system to secure data on USB devices called Flash Padlock. It is basically a...
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USB Flash Drive with Capacity Meter
A lot of computer users think that usb flash drives are all the same. They look boring and can only be used to plug them into a usb port. The Lexar usb flash drive Jumpdrive Mercury adds one useful...
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Assign USB Drives to a Folder
Working with several portable USB devices on one computer can be quite complicated when you consider that Windows is assigning the next free drive letter to a device that gets connected. This can lead...
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Backup and Restore USB Images
USB Image Tool is a lightweight portable software that can create backups of USB devices. It detects pretty much every USB device that I'm connecting to an USB port including my Apple iPod Nano. It did...
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