Antonio Velázquez asks:
I left my USB at a friend’s house, and I believe he saw some personal files I had in it.
I’m a fool ’cause they weren’t password protected, I know. but right now I want software or something that can tell me the “history” of my USB. I mean, the latest opened or copied documents.
Is there anything like that?
This question has been resolved. You may still add an answer if you think you can add something to the discussion though.
Hide 9 Comments
Truecrypt is your best bet. It’s free and works very well. Also simple to use.
Thanks to you all! apparently, my friend didn’t check anything
Just have a look at when the files where last accessed by right clicking on the files you want to see if they are accessed and select properties. It will show the last access date (when the file was last opened), Last modified date (when the file was last saved). If these dates are different to what you think they should be, someone has probably read them.
Depending on how many files you have on the USB, what you can do is right-click on the files and click properties. There it should give you information about the file such as when it was created, last modified, and last accessed. That way you can see if the files were opened while the USB was in the possession of your friend.
This works if you only have a few files to go through. If there are a lot of files, I’m sure there are programs out there that can give this kind of information in a larger setting.
This would work using the detail view in windows explorer (if your using that Operating System)
but ive found using properties then the last accessed entries is the present rather than the previous time it was opened, helpful…not lol
You can right click the files and select properties. It should tell you in the window the last time it has been modified which updates if someone opens to read.
not what i was looking for, but it seems a good tool to password protect my files… and yes, it seems to work on USB
Hello, if it was to find USB history in your computer, you could use USBDeview by nirsoft. It probably will not tell you what files were opened, by it would tell you the last time/date it was plug in:
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usb_devices_view.html
Also, you could find the history in registry under USB and USBStor entries. Only problem is, you would have to access registry in your friend’s computer. To see the history you could navigate to next two entries in registry. It would only tell you the last time it was accessed and also when was accessed the first time:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetEnumUSB
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetEnumUSBSTOR
thanks for your answer, perhaps i’ll need to check my friend’s computer :S bloody hell