That type of password creation process creates the same password for everyone, hidden inside the program, and leaves the user with the illusion of protection - how is that secure?

Cyril King, you can't know if a proprietary piece of software contains any backdoors or not, if you don't have straight access to the source, not some source in some state, the exact same source that's been used to compile all this. I would never state such a thing, if i can't be 100% sure.

Cyril King, can PowerCryptor hide/encrypt entire folders or dod files need to encrypted individually?

Cyril King, your operating system contains numerous undisclosed vulnerabilities for NSA backdoors already so even if a 3rd party program was secure, if you supply the passphrase or key then the built in backdoors of the operating system are backdoors to your accessable encrypted files.

Cyril King: You're not comparing like with like. The iObit software promises to make sensitive files "invisible". PowerCryptor . . . doesn't. I've tried Power Cryptor before and still can't see that what it offers is in any way superior to Safehouse Explorer freeware (which has always offered 'invisibility'.)

_kui, probably nobody can be 100% sure about any algorithm, my point was, perhaps not made clear, that PowerCryptor has a choice of using any of several algorithms ...AES 256 bits, blowfish, Triple Des, DES, RC2, ARC4... more than any other at the price and so, better value for money...also, the coding was made in Russia by only ONE person, and he states 'no backdoor', therefore very much less likely to have hidden NSA backdoor... IMO.

MikeR, Are you sure the 'invisible' files don't become 'visible' in DOS mode? I have no idea since I don't use that particular software for encryption. Interested to know if it does.

TK, ...then don't supply the the password or key. The entire file is encrypted and so is the option of encrypting the file's name if you so wish...ex: of free password generator ...lo6mb4uh9glvt8lrauez to be kept in the cloud...or wherever :)

Cyril King, if you don't supply the pasphrase or key you won't have access to the encrypted data yourself... but the moment You have access to the encrypted data then potentially so does anyone with inside knowledge of the OS backdoor vulnerabilities and opertunity to exploit them so it does not matter if the 3rd party encryption/decryption tool is clean of backdoors or not.

Cyril King, so you trust the word of an assumed lone developer in Russia a Nation state that is known to use criminal hacker teams for political and financial gain with support of the Russian legal and political system... over an established law enforcement agency like the NSA. Even though you choose to use an OS with built in undisclosed backdoor vulnerabilities crafted for said agency and only publicly patched if and when those vulnerabilities are found to be discovered by 3rd parties threatening to make them known publically or have already made them known publically.

TK, My car, made in S.Korea...7 year full guarantee, my ex: bike made in Japan, My i5 CPU in Taiwan, my guitar in USA, my T shirt and water pump in China, my antivirus in Russia, my encryption software in Russia, my malware byte software in UK...I don't trust anybody, except my own instinct and it ain't let me down...law enforcement is very young and rookie like..Forget politics...look for the best value for money when buying :)

Arnold Knack, just uninstall it and the files and folders should be revealed. as they are not encrypted just hidden by a kernel driver.

Classic security through smoke and mirrors.