Quick Start Guide
Welcome to
SecurFlash
™
,
Version 8.2
software from encryptX Corporation (
www.encryptX.com
) . The
SecurFlash software encrypts and hides sensitive information on removable drives such as USB flash drives,
removable hard drives, and also works to encrypt and hide files on your local PC hard drive. Encryption is
designed to prevent unauthorized access to confidential data, such as files for corporate projects, personal
finances, entertainment (e.g. video and audio files) or can be used as a repository to store all your other
usernames and passwords in a central and hidden location. When you encrypt files through the SecurFlash
application, they are also hidden on the drive from the PC Operating System so that they can only be seen and
opened by first running the SecurFlash application and providing the password.
Supported Operating Systems.
The software is supported on Microsoft Windows 2000, XP Home, XP Pro,
and Vista. The software is not supported on Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Linux, or any of the
Macintosh operating systems. You can encrypt and hide any type of file supported by the Microsoft Windows
Operating System through the SecurFlash software.
Important Product Use Concepts
1.
Use of the SecurFlash software is not mandatory to the use of the drive
. If you do not want to encrypt
and hide files on the drive that the software is installed on you can simply drag and drop or save files to the
drive within your application or copy files using Windows Explorer.
2.
If you forget both your password and recovery hint you will not be able to access the encrypted and
hidden files on the drive unless you have upgraded
. You will need to remember either your password
or your recovery hint question to be able to access your encrypted and hidden files. If you are concerned
about forgetting your password and recovery hint, you should consider upgrading to the “Corporate
Version” of the SecurFlash software by running the selecting the
Tools > Upgrade
menu selection from
within the SecurFlash application. You do not have to reinstall or download new software. You will have to
pay a small fee to upgrade – which is explained in the “Learn more about Corporate Features” dialog box
when you select
Tools > Upgrade
from within the SecurFlash application. The Corporate Version of the
software integrates with a web accessible server application that provides Administrator password recovery
for users that forget their password and recovery hint, provides audit tracking of encrypted file system
content, provides dynamic revocation of authorized password access to encrypted file system content if the
drive is lost/stolen and the password is compromised, and provides optional enforcement of strong
passwords and periodic password changes.
3. It
is very important to understand that when you encrypt files using the SecurFlash software they
are stored in a hidden and encrypted file system on the drive.
The encrypted files and folders that you
have protected through the SecurFlash software are not visible to applications or the Microsoft Windows
Operating System. You cannot launch these files directly from the drive from within the Operating System
or from within other applications, such as Microsoft Office. The only way to access these files is to run the
EncryptX SecurFlash application by double clicking the
Run SecurFlash.exe
from the drive where it is
installed and providing the correct password. Only then will you be able to see the hidden and encrypted
files and folders that you have previously stored in the encrypted file system on your drive. You can then
open the files and modify them within your applications by double clicking the files that are shown to you in
the SecurFlash encrypted and hidden file system.
4. You can open and edit your files from within the SecurFlash software and any changes will be
automatically saved.
Any edits you make to files that you have previously encrypted and are opening
from within the SecurFlash application will be automatically saved back in to the hidden and encrypted file
system on the drive, when you SAVE or EXIT your application. If you perform a SAVE AS, the SecurFlash
application assumes you want to save your changes outside of the encrypted file system on the drive.
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