Just a heads up for you all, Vovsoft has done some previous giveaways here and their software is known to be a bit amateur-ish.

- One of the biggest mistakes is storing passwords as plaintext in the registry.
- A shady thing, as mentioned by KK (#2) here is that they apparently collect personally identifiable information.

Source: https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/daily-journal-4-2/ (comment #12 by TK)

Comments on older version of this software:
https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/hide-files-4-4/ (see comment #5 by starvinmarvin about why this isn't a great idea in general)

That's not to discourage anyone or to say they haven't improved their software, but just a warning so someone doesn't lose access to their important documents.

Mark  –  4 years ago  –  Комментарий оказался полезным? да | нет (+29)

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It doesnt look like this software encrypts anything, it just hides it, is that correct?

JB  –  4 years ago  –  Комментарий оказался полезным? да | нет (+23)

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For strong security, the software must be:

1-Portable and never installed on any specific drive
2-No password stored on your C: drive and the password must be encrypted on a USB drive as key file
3-The vault created must be encrypted by default on an external drive
4-The individual files must be encrypted and decrypted only when correct password is typed.

This software has none of the above.

Mike2  –  4 years ago  –  Комментарий оказался полезным? да | нет (+22)

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Can this be directly installed to an external HDD and run from that same HDD?
Also, does Vovsoft collect information on files included in folders that it PW-protects? I'd like to protect tax information and other banking info, but I'm a bit concerned by the ToS.

KK  –  4 years ago  –  Комментарий оказался полезным? да | нет (+20)

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One of the features of the licensed version is 'Recover forgotten password'

So that makes me wonder that if there is a back door then what is preventing the program from using it in the background to pass data on?

Too much of a potential security worry to try.

And without a standalone version, it would make data recovery more difficult in the event of a system crash where you would need to boot from an external source to access drives and partitions.

If I recall correctly, windows can already hide files and folders on NTFS partitions.

PhilS  –  4 years ago  –  Комментарий оказался полезным? да | нет (+15)

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