Lock your PC more easily
- Published: 27/01/2010 at 12:00 AM
- Newspaper section: Database
Predator is a unique solution to the question pretty well everyone is asking: How do you keep Miss Snoop from down the hall off your computer when you have to leave the machine for a few minutes?
French computer consultant Richard Goutorbe of Montpellier has come up with an intriguing answer.
You do it by removing your regular, ordinary USB drive, which has put a lock on the PC you are using - a very strong lock, which can only be reopened by inserting the USB drive once again.
Predator disables Ctrl-Alt-Del, disables the mouse and disables the keyboard. You can't get into the machine and you can't simply reboot it.
When Miss Snoop or anyone of her type tries to spy on your computer while you are away, for all intents and purposes she can't. If she tries, Predator reports the attempted break-in in a log file, which you can have tweeted via Twitter instantly.
Of course, no software can entirely lock a computer, but any attempt to tamper with the computer off and back on will trigger an actual alarm, so everyone else in the office knows what Miss Snoop is, well, failing to do.
When you first run this program, you will give it a password and a second "pass phrase". These create back doors which can be used on the main, locked PC in case something goes wrong with your PC. The alarm will go off if any colleague including a spouse enters the wrong password three times.
There is a full explanation of Predator in English, and a download link here: tinyurl.com/lptfbz.
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- Writer: Wanda Sloan
- Position: Reporter
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