PGP, pretty good privacy is a good freeware utillity, try here http://www.pgpi.org/ for some free versions. It can encrypt files but i'm not sure about folders it can also sign and encrypt e-mails or news group postings. In short you have 2 keys, a public and a private. You encrypt files using the public key then you use the private key (_ONLY_ you have the private key) to decrypt the data, when decrypting with the private key you are also asked for your password. Also if you have admin rights to your PC then you can change the security on the folder to only allow your user account access to the folder or files that you have encrypted.
On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 00:59, Tony - CIA;CISA;CDP;CPA;MBA wrote: > Hi, > > I have some highly confidential data that I frequently access on in a folder > that is on my desktop computer (ie win2k). I want to make sure no one but > me will able to see this data. Does anyone know of any freeware\shareware > that will 1) en-crypt the data in the folder and/or 2) require a password > to open up the folder? I need to make sure a person like our lan admin or > desk top support person can not figure out a way to get to the data. > > Tony CIA,CISA,CDP,MBA > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus > >
