Scraplock

Scraplock is a complex yet easy to handle piece of software developed to provide you with an easy means of protecting sensitive files from your PC by turning your USB stick into a lock for your documents, rendering them inaccessible when the memory device is not connected to the computer.

In terms of appearance, the program is very basic and unimpressive, yet its minimalistic GUI makes it simple to understand and work with, but not without having to go through the documentation material.

The interface of Scraplock is made up of a small, non-adjustable window, where all of the configuration steps can be found and customized.

After having installed the utility on your system and launched it, you can connect your USB stick to the computer. You can provide a secret encryption key, which can only contain numbers, then indicate the targeted file formats. The utility supports a wide range of extensions, including TXT, PDF, DOC, XLS, even multimedia files, such as AVI, MP3, MKV and others.

Next, you need to download and install a tool from the link indicated in Scraplock’s documentation, FreeFileViewer.exe, press the ‘Application’ button, locate the executable of this program on your PC and load it, then press on ‘Protect App’.

You can then choose the folder whose contents you wish to secure, pressing the ‘Protect Files’ to convert them to encrypted format. The final step consists of running the ‘Install Trial’ option from the ‘Tools’ menu, which will render your files usable for 10 days.

The protected files can be found in the same directory, in the ‘Scraplock’ folder, but they can only be accessed with FreeFileViewer.exe when the USB stick is connected to the computer.

To conclude, Scraplock is a fairly advanced application aimed to offer you a reliable method of protecting your most important files and binding them to a USB stick, thus ensuring that they can only be decrypted and accessed with that specific device.