Preventing deletion of Private Disk.

[Dave S]

How do I keep people from finding or deleting a private disk made with Client Security Solution? When the disk is mounted it can't be deleted, but it can be read by anyone. When it's unmounted, it can't be read without a password, but it can be deleted by going to the edit menu in Utimaco. In fact, since unmounting doesn't hide the .vol file, it can be deleted like any other Windows file.

[yossarian]

I highly recommend you separate out users on windows, and log onto non administrator accounts for day to day business. There will be a lot of privilege separation protections windows puts in then to make this type of thing harder for other users.

For example, I use my user account and have my safeguard disk prompt for mounting after login. Then, when I log out it unmounts for me and other people can login without being able to touch my files(in general).

The other option is disable simple file sharing on windows, so that when you look at the "properties" of a file, you get a Security tab. Then go to the tab, and alter the permissions, so that delete permissions are not allowed for whatever user concerned(advanced button). Just be weary.. if you use an administrator account normally and your other users do too, then that setting is probably easily circumvented.

In short, consider separating administratioon from regular use accounts.

And with regards to deleting it off the utlimaco menu, that doesn't seem to delete the .vol file automatically. From my experience it just takes it off the menu with the volume container still on disk. But in case it doesn't you should create a new volume to that, instead of using your existing ones.