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Monday, November 18, 2002
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Hide sensitive files
Raman Mohan

DO you need an e-mail client that works better than the conventional programs like Outlook Express? Now there are several such freeware available on the Net. These are often faster, have more features and are easy to configure for use by different members of the family using the same computer without compromising on privacy. This fortnight we feature one such mail checker. The other featured freeware is also a privacy enhancement tool to encrypt your personal and sensitive data.

1st Mail Checker V2.0

Do you like to have a quick review of POP3 accounts or to interact with your accounts from different places? Or perhaps to be the first to know of your new e-mail? If yes, then 1st Mail Checker is just the right tool to help you. It’s designed to be fast, reliable and easy to use POP3 e-mail checker and what’s more – you can read and send e-mail, save and send attachments. It can be configured in many different ways – exactly as you want. Also, its configurable font feature makes the 1st Mail Checker usable for those with eyesight disabilities. It also offers: unlimited number of accounts, secure user profiles, customizable mail filtering rules, ability to remember retrieved headers and load them on 1st MC startup, different checking interval for each account or one global interval, ability to quickly view, reply, print, save or delete messages in a convenient way, deletion of messages safely from server without downloading them, partial support for HTML messages and remove HTML feature, browser function that allows to view full-html messages directly in your browser, notification of new messages immediately in different ways. 1st Mail Checker offers a convenient and secure way to protect your sensitive mail accounts information from others. If you want to be sure of the security and that nobody spies on you, you need to enable user profiles, which encrypts all sensitive information to avoid possible security problems and make spying much more difficult. If you start 1st Mail Checker without profile support, you cannot create accounts for multiple users and basically everybody who has access to your computer and Windows user account, can read your mail. You can change this setting later, but the writers of the freeware strongly suggest you to enable profiles. You can download this program from www.lockbyte.com

KPKFile

This is a program that provides security for your sensitive files by encrypting and hiding them. It also offers the option of burying the files within another binary file, such as a Microsoft Word document or a bitmap image. Moreover, KPKFile creates a special folder on your disk drive that’s impossible to access without the proper password. Besides, the program manages an encrypted database of passwords and related data. KPKFile has imposed a new standard in professional encryption software. It is snap to use, has a very strong encryption method and is free. No Operating System or other secret folder software has the safety of Private Folder, because KPKFile doesn’t change system files to create folder but it always encodes data and cleans up disk drive. It has a common interface which provides access to three separate functions - Password Memo database, File encryption and wiping utility and, Private Folder utility. Password Memo is a useful encrypted database that allows you to manage your passwords in and out of KPKFile interface. You can store up to 64 passwords, related data (Accounts, UserNames), and descriptions allowing you to seek data within database. You can copy passwords to KPKFile memory. Moreover, you can easily copy data to clipboard and paste them into any application by right-clicking your mouse. This option lets you manage all encrypted data by very complex safe passwords, while you have to remember only one password: the Password Memo password. The encryption utility asks for a password, then lets you select one or more files to add to a single encrypted file. Download available from www.geocities.com/john52612000