gHacks technology news » device lock http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:55:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Lock your Devices with Device Lock http://www.ghacks.net/2006/08/25/lock-your-devices-with-device-lock/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/08/25/lock-your-devices-with-device-lock/#comments Fri, 25 Aug 2006 06:17:06 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2006/08/25/lock-your-devices-with-device-lock/ Device Lock allows you to close open USB and firewire ports as well as other device ports that make it possible to run external devices on your computer. With all the live cds and programs that run from USB such connections to the pc have become a greater security risk than ever before. System administrators as well as security concerned end users should disable every means of accessing the pc or running software from devices that could access it.

Device Lock is a great utility that allows system administrators to lock out practically every device that is able to run software or connect to the pc on a per user base. It is even possible to define special times that enable the devices and times were the same devices are locked out. Special USB devices can be enabled and all others locked out. The program is highly configurable and integrated into the windows group policy editor.

You need Windows XP professional for this then obviously because XP home does not have the group policy editor. The tool is having a list of administrators that are able to change the policys, all others are not able to change the policy although they might be administrators as well.

Device Lock creates extensive log files which might come in handy if you suspect a user was fiddling around with the settings or tried to connect a device to the computer.

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