Hi Agu,
The activation error is caused by a temporary service error, and it's OK now, please try it again. We're so sorry for that.
For 1-year license, it means when the license is expired, the software will switch off and the protected files will become unprotected. Renew the license or not is not important. The software will not harm you when the license expires. So please feel free to download and install this GOTD.

Hello Tim,
Now everything works and is ok.Can you describe us,how its happened?It never happened to me.
Checked and it really works.

Tim, That right there is a backdoor vulnerability.

nomadss1, can you describe, how this backdoor vulnerability works?

Agu, There' s no backdoor. Just need internet access to active the product.

Ootje,

"BUTI started another Windows on that machine and could access all files and folders.
Maybe the program only protect folders and files in the same Windows
Ootje"

Think you nailed it. Appears that iBoysoft File Protector is designed to let you access files, but is supposed to prevent unauthorized apps &/or processes from writing or deleting them. Lots of security software, e.g. Bitdefender, has the same sort of thing, intended to prevent ransomware from deleting your files after they make encrypted copies.

That sort of protection has its place -- if you're able to access a file to read or work on it, whether you're using file encryption or not, other software &/or processes can access it too, including malware. But as you've noted, the software has to be running to provide any protection -- if you want to better protect a file or files from deletion, store it somewhere where no app or process can access it, e.g. back it up & disconnect the drive with that backup, which is recommended to protect from disk wipers & ransomware.

The hard part is that if a file is something you're working on, those backups are going to only reflect changes made up until the time the backup was made. Trying to protect it in between backups may be worth a shot, even if it's not bulletproof.

Hi TK,
If someone has ring-0 level privilege, there's no one can stop them to do what they want to do unless the files stored as encrypted data. But I think encrypt data is a so weight and DANGER operation, and it will cause data loss forever sometimes. Not everyone like that and not everything need that. Sometime just a lite thing such as this software is enough for us.

Ootje,

Wonder what would happen if you drop in a Linux disc and tried to access the "protected folders". If anyone has such a disk, and is using this "free" trial, you should try that and let others know if the program is still effective under that widely used OS.

As this is NOT actually free, I won't bother using this software, I don't subscribe to the extended trial period offering, as they do not honor the spirit of this site. Others have tried to make the point that some software are actually attached to services, and it is the service that you are paying for. This is just software with a timer built in, there is no reason for it to even have that timer, other than the company does not really want you to own the program.

Maybe GAOTD is having a hard time finding vendors that are willing to give us free software, I don't know. But this is becoming the norm on this site, which is sad. My friends and I used to really enjoy getting these programs, then debating their quality/usability. Those days have all but ended.

Anthony, "if you drop in a Linux disc"
There was no need for that. I do have many Live-CD's with Linux and also Live Windows.
Bur when I can access that "protected" folders in another Windows on the same PC, then it is clear to me, that that folder is not really protected.
I am sure, that a live Linux also can access that folder.

MikeR,

Yours of course is a much better example, but even on the screen grabs shown here, they have "Deny wrie [write] access>"

That put me off enough not to go any further -- but thanks for confirming my suspicions.....

Developers who cannot/do not have decent English for their English programmes are never going to impress others that what they are offering will WORK.

Yes, it is a pity, but that is the sad fact -- I am lucky that English is such an international language, but because it is, if you're going to develop programmes that MIGHT be pretty good, you ALSO HAVE TO pay attention to the English! Otherwise people are going to make judgments about your programmes, simply based on that.
In other words, you do yourselves down in the public's eye -- so, for heaven's sake devote SOME resources to getting the ENGLISH right too!

Or be rejected often, just for that single fact.

Sorry, but it's true.

Tranmontane: I take your point, though have to say that in my industry (advertising) the foremost caveats we bear in mind are if a consumer thinks you'll tell 'em anything to sell 'em anything, you won't sell anything at all and: the product *is* the promotion.

The producer who understands the latter has little need of verbiage, whether eloquent or mistranslated -- hence why "It does what it says on the tin" remains the classic advertising tagline.

Unfortunately, this developer's strategy of so obviously saying anything to sell anything means potential users are so alienated that its product isn't even tried.