I've heard of Shareware, I've heard of Freeware?
But Postcardware?........
Did you know you could password protect EXE files?
Yes it’s possible with a program called Empathy! Pretty neat eh?
But Postcardware?........
Did you know you could password protect EXE files?
Yes it’s possible with a program called Empathy! Pretty neat eh?
So why would you ever want to password protect a program?
Well, for lots of reasons! For example, maybe you have TurboTax installed on your computer, which does not have any built-in security, and you have other people who might use that computer. You certainly don’t want someone to be able to open TurboTax and see all of your financial information right!?
Currently, the only way to prevent someone from accessing that program would be to create another user account and secure your account with a password. However, there are always times when you just happen to forget to log off your account and someone comes along and sits down to use the computer.
Empathy is a cool program that allows you to password protect Windows programs and EXE files. It can modify any EXE file so that it will require the user to enter a password before it can be run. This is fabulous for someone like me.
Now I can password protect my FTP program, my financial programs, my chat applications, etc to add additional security on top of passwords and prevent other people from accessing my data and sensitive software.
The other cool thing about the program is that if you copy or move the EXE file to another location or even to another computer, the password will still be required, even if the operating system is different! Now that’s pretty cool!
This is also a great utility for portable apps that you might have on your USB drive. Sometimes you end up having to let someone borrow your USB stick, which means your data could be accessed, even if you have passwords setup. Using Empathy, you can password protect your portable apss also in case you have to lend out or you end up losing your USB stick.
The only strange thing about the program is that when you download the program from his website, the unregistered version only allows you to use one letter to password protect a file.
In order to register the software, you have to send a postcard to the developer with your email address and a picture of your Town, City! That is the first time I have ever heard of anything like that before, but apparently once he gets the postcard, he will email you the registration code that will allow longer passwords! Enjoy!
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