Automatically Lock Your PC with your Bluetooth Device When You Leave Your Workstation
Posted By Keith Dsouza On May 18, 2008 @ 6:31 pm In Software | 8 Comments
There are various ways of locking up your PC, but many a times you tend to forget to lock your PC while moving away from your workstation.
This can have various ramifications since anyone can come and snoop on your unlocked PC, the best way to lock your PC is to tell it to automatically lock down when you leave your workstation.
Bluetooth PC Proximity Locker [1] is a software that will allow you to lock your PC when you move away from it with your blue tooth device.
The software will only work when your Bluetooth device you have set up as default device is not in range of the PC.
The most common blue tooth device you may have is the cell phone and the most common reason you may leave your workstation is because you may received a call on it, so setting up your cellphone as your default device you can ensure that your PC is locked automatically every time you take a break for a call.
And the cellphone is a thing which you will always take with you just in case you may receive a call from someone, so taking it out of range from the PC will automatically lock it.
Well first of this software is absolutely free to use, the only problem with using this is that you PC must be Bluetooth enabled.
This is a unique way of securing your PC and I myself tend to forget to lock my Workstation when I go to attend a phone call. Since my laptop comes with a inbuilt Bluetooth and so does my phone I would definitely use this to setup auto locking for my laptop :).
What do you do to secure your workstation? Do let me know through your comments.
Download: Bluetooth PC Proximity Locker [2]
Requirements: Bluetooth enabled PC and device | Dot Net Framework [3]
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[1] Bluetooth PC Proximity Locker: http://www.enterpriseinformationtechnology.com/proximlock
[2] Bluetooth PC Proximity Locker: http://www.enterpriseinformationtechnology.com/ProximLock.Setup.msi
[3] Dot Net Framework: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0856EACB-4362-4B0D-8EDD-AAB15C5E04F5&displaylang=en
[4] Bluetooth: http://technorati.com/tags/Bluetooth
[5] Bluetooth PC Proximity Locker: http://technorati.com/tags/Bluetooth%20PC%20Proximity%20Locker
[6] Lock PC: http://technorati.com/tags/Lock%20PC
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