How to protect your information from your laptop if it was steal?

There are some software to protect my laptop/notebook files in case somebody will steal it ?

I want to retrieve the information or at least to delete it.

If anybody know something about this type of protection please say.

ThanksHow to protect your information from your laptop if it was steal?You need "Lojack for Laptops"How to protect your information from your laptop if it was steal?get a external hard drive than u have no worries ----i never store anything on mine ----freeagent go by seagate ---a 350 is 80 bucks and can be secured ( is built in software ) about the size of a blackberry or get lojack about 50 bucks a year but that just finds ur pc not protect anything on itHow to protect your information from your laptop if it was steal?For the best security I recommend TrueCrypt.



TrueCrypt

http://sourceforge.net/projects/truecryp鈥?/a>

http://download.cnet.com/TrueCrypt/3000-鈥?/a>

On-the-fly encryption software which can create a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mount it as a real disk. It can also encrypt a hard disk partition or storage device, such as USB flash drive. Moreover, TrueCrypt supports plausible deniability.



TrueCrypt uses encryption algorithms AES-256, Blowfish (448-bit key), CAST5, Serpent, Triple DES, and Twofish. It is based on Encryption for the Masses (E4M) 2.02a, conceived in 1997.



TrueCrypt Video Tutorial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nemmSS5mq鈥?/a>



Full Disk Encryption with TrueCrypt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ttbtGTlO鈥?/a>



Truecrypt - Simple demonstration

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh-nRyV44鈥?/a>How to protect your information from your laptop if it was steal?
If you want a free and extremely effective way of protecting your data, such set a "power-on" password on your laptop.



Most laptops give you an option to set a password when the computer stops that will it impossible for anyone to access your computer. Now, I'm not talking about a Windows password when you login, I mean a password for the actual computer.



When you start your computer, the first screen you see is the "boot screen" for the brief couple of seconds it's on, it should tell you to push a certain key on your keyboard to access settings or to access the "BIOS". Simply push that key to access your BIOS and somehwere in there will be the option to set one of two things, or two:



1) Power-on password: This will set a password for just your computer. If someone steals your laptop, unless they know the password, this will make it impossible for them to start the computer.

2) Hard drive password: This is what you want to set. This puts a password on your hard drive so that if someone steals it, even if they take your hard drive out and put it in a different computer, they will still need a password to get access to the hard drive. With this set, there is no way they can access your hard drive.



NOTE: If you forget the password for either of these settings then you wont' be able to use your hard drive or laptop again, so please keep this in mind.



For better instructions on how to set these passwords (because every computer is different) look up your computer's model number on the manufacturer's website (ie Dell, HP, Sony, etc) and look through your computers Manual for details on how to set a password.



NOTE: Setting these two passwords doesn't have anything to do with recovering your information should someone steal your computer, but it will prevent them from getting access to it. Setting a power-on password will actually render your laptop useless to anyone who steals it, so they won't be able to do anything with it.



I'd recommend buying an external hard drive or USB stick and make regular backups of your files on there so that if your computer is stolen then your files are not gone either.

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