Dekart Private Disk 2.10

There are a lot of solution to hide your documents or whatever files from your computer. Some of them will be saved as encrypted files, some of them will be hidden. Dekart Private Disk comes with a new solution. It will encrypt your files on a local or a removable disk which can be virtual or not.

This method will prevent your informations from malware, viruses or to be accessed by other programs. It can encrypt the informations on local and USB drives, CD's, DVD's. This enables the files to be portable and you can work with them on any other computer without installing the software locally.

First of all, the application will create a virtual disk where you will copy the needed files. After this you can set the firewall, enable or disable the autorun function. Every drive will be password protected. You can create several encrypted drives of various sizes.

If you wish to use an USB drive you should first install the Dekart on this drive and then create the image with all the files. Just right click the application and choose 'install to removable disk'.

With the backup mechanism you can recover a previous removable disk, if of course you have made a backup for it. This is very useful because of the corrupted files that can appear after encryption or because of the hardware problems of your USB drive.

Pluses: can be installed on USB drive, CD's and DVD's; firewall; autorun; you can set which application should start after disconnecting the removable disk; backup utility; 256-bit AES encryption algorithm.

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In conclusion: The power of this application comes from its portability.

version reviewed: 2.10