These days USB devices or pen drives like they are commonly called, have become an essential tool in our daily buisness, be it in college or at work. Thinking of losing a pendrive that has some important data or your work material can give you a nightmare. Today I’m sharing with you a software that can help in tracing your pendrive, if it ever gets lost.
USB Lost and Found is a free tool to keep your USB drive away from unauthorized users from using/keeping your USB drive. It works on Windows 2000/XP/Server/Vista.
USB Lost and Found has two methods of telling unauthorized users to return it. The first method is the Message method. If you lose your pendrive and someone else tries to use it they get a message box on their computer screens that tells them to return it, along with your contact information, and denies access to the USB drive.
The second method, which only comes with the Pro version, is called Lock Down. Lock Down immediately locks the user’s computer when the USB drive is accessed, covering the whole screen and denying access. When the computer is in lockdown mode, hotkeys such as Alt+F4 and Ctrl+Shift+Esc don’t work. Only Ctrl+Alt+Del would work and you can shutdown/restart/logoff your computer.
When you’ve installed the lockdown protection on your USB flash drive, you can continue accessing your USB flash drive with any of the following methods below.If you want the Lock Down feature, you’ll have to purchase the PRO version of USB Lost and Found. In my opinion, the lock down feature might work well for a naive user but not on more experienced users. If the computer has autorun turned off or security products such as USB Firewall or iKill installed, USB Lost and Found will not work. Some antivirus may even warn and stop the autorun.inf from your USB flash drive.
So the best thing one can do is use the free version and add our own custom message like,”This USB drive is lost! Please contact: +91XXXXXXXXXX so that I may get my USB drive back! Thank you so much!”. You can also give your Email ID instead of your phone number and hope that there are kind and honest people in this world that would return your USB flash drive to the respective owner.
Click Here To Download USB Lost and Found.
