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iBoysoft File Protector 2.0 Giveaway
$29.95
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Giveaway of the day — iBoysoft File Protector 2.0

Reliable and easy-to-use file/folder password protection tool!
$29.95 EXPIRED
User rating: 52 15 comments

iBoysoft File Protector 2.0 was available as a giveaway on October 6, 2017!

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The most complete Windows shell manager!

iBoysoft File Protector protects the private information and secures sensitive data from leaks, theft, loss or virus attack. It safeguards privacy by preventing other people from viewing, altering or deleting data without permission, and also protects important files/folders from virus attack.

Key Features:

  • Only one password to protect files/folders;
  • Protects files/folders from virus/ransomware;
  • Three protection methods: access restriction to read, write or delete files;
  • Allows specific application to access files under protection.

Please note: the program includes a 1 year license!

System Requirements:

Windows 7/ 8/ 10 and Windows Server 2008 R2/2012/2016

Publisher:

iBoysoft

Homepage:

https://www.iboysoft.com/file-protector/

File Size:

7.59 MB

Price:

$29.95

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#6

It gives me Activation error-key is registered.But not in my machine or what .And what this means-1 year licence,does it means that after one year i would pay to geting my files back . Or what about trial.
Does it seems that there is something wrong in protection system or about my computer,because i switched off especially that Avast Antivirus does not doing wrong something.
Now it tells that activation error-key is registered.I will try with some unimportant files that program.

Reply   |   Comment by Agu  –  9 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+2)

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.

Reply   |   Comment by Agu  –  9 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (-3)

Tim, That right there is a backdoor vulnerability.

Reply   |   Comment by nomadss1  –  9 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)

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

Reply   |   Comment by Agu  –  9 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+1)
#5

I use Wise Folder Hider Pro which is a frequent giveaway here. It not only password protects but makes the folder invisible. How does this compare?

Reply   |   Comment by mark  –  9 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+10)
#4

No choice about a folder:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/olbo7alvwfk87jn/Setup.png
At first it did not work:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/sh81mqb6hap282i/EersteStart.png
Later after a new installation it did work and asked for a password, 123456:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xrphoy8ib44uzav/StartProgramma.png
At Settting change the password:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/szv93zjtajk3gvp/Settings.png
I did protect a folder:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/8k7wlr7vzzxwelv/ProtectedFolder.png
and: https://www.dropbox.com/s/v105g2u5rhxu4ms/ProtectedFolder-2.png
And I assigned two program's to access a file in that folder:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/5ygiotxsqaapb6p/LijstApplicaties.png
I could not copy a file in that folder:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/28hs3wuyprzb800/FoutMeldingKopieren.png
With the explorer it seems to work, no entry:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/fufizd22u80s2jn/VerkennerMap.png
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

Reply   |   Comment by Ootje  –  9 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+44)

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.

Reply   |   Comment by Anthony  –  9 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+5)

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.

Reply   |   Comment by Ootje  –  9 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#3

From this the developer's support page at:

https://www.iboysoft.com/file-protector/online-help.html

"iBoysoft is committed to research in the fileld of data security.after years of development,iBoysoft has helped millionsofusers successfully ibn the field of data security. Relying on many years of practical utillization,iBoysoft has become one of the pioneers in these area."

A spectacularly illiterate yet long-established pioneering specialist in data security that no-one has heard of without a registered office or identifiable address but with millions of customers of whom I'm unaware of a single one means I'd have to be a boy who really was soft in the head to allow 'File Protector' anywhere near my computer.

Whether free today or or not, this ludicrous example of rentalware hasn't a chance in the face of innately superior always-free protection from credible resources like Axcrypt, Veracrypt, or the excellent SafeHouse:

http://www.safehousesoftware.com/SafeHouseExplorer.aspx

as well as umpteen other freewares of lesser capability.

Thanks, GOTD, but no thanks.

Reply   |   Comment by MikeR  –  9 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+52)

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.

Reply   |   Comment by Tranmontane  –  9 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+13)

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.

Reply   |   Comment by MikeR  –  9 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+16)
#2

Similar Alternatives: Easy File Locker, which it's free

Reply   |   Comment by Syafiq  –  9 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+30)
#1

Why just a 1 year licence? Just use Two Bright Sparks 'Encrypt on Click' which is totally free

Reply   |   Comment by Paul  –  9 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+38)
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