With Bluetooth Proximity Lock Utility you can lock your PC when you are away from your desk. The monitoring is done by establishing the Bluetooth connection between your PC and a personal device chosen by the user, such as a smartphone.
Leave your PC on your desk for a coffee break, away from their desk in a hurry, follow colleagues leaving your notebook unattended, these are times when potentially your data and your computer are vulnerable and accessible. But ignoring the most dramatic scenes worthy of any film of espionage, ‘s just say that in those moments , ” our affairs “could be seen by those who really do not want . Bluetooth Proximity Lock Utility – now only BtProx – is a utility that in these situations is just right, say it now: the BtProx is an interesting approach and concept, and many other things could be improved.
Before finding the best, go step by step and explain how it works BtProx. The developers of this utility are thought to confirm the presence of the owner before the PC would need to check a condition simple and ingenious: the presence nearby of a particular device with a Bluetooth connection and previously recorded would be a sufficient guarantee. Or better yet: if a particular Bluetooth device connected to the PC becomes a certain point is reached no more likely that the user has left the station, and then it would be appropriate to secure the system. To do this we think BtProx and to return to reuse the PC will need to replace username and password.
The installation file is available at this address (200 KB) and to use the tool, simply run the binary file you just downloaded then choosing the installation path. To function properly BtProx must be present on your PC. NET 3.5. The user must then provide a minimum configuration and before you start this phase you should check that the device be used as a verification system is properly connected to the PC in Bluetooth.
From the control panel will then be BtProx verification device of choice among all those connected to the PC and the establishment of a minimum beyond which BtProx should intervene, and the definition of this timeout is useful to avoid the intervention of the utility in the case of rapid and momentary interruptions of the Bluetooth connection. Having reached this point by pressing Start BtProx begins its work by offering this special protection.
Noteworthy options include the ability to run a particular script when BtProx locks the PC: This option is convenient and useful if it remains accessible only to those who have a minimum of confidence with scripts and command line. The same possibility is available when the system is unlocked.
The lock operation by BtProx is indicated by a small red icon in the systray and a much more efficient countdown with sound alarm. BtProx worth testing though it seems still rather young: the first practical tests we have seen some error too many signaling messages to the user during blocking. In addition, the first installation was not working properly BtProx giving an error when the utility would lock the system. Assigning manually the executable administrator privileges at run we solved the problem.
BtProx is a GPL project and more information on this software is available here. The functionality performed by this application is also available through specific utility distributed by some notebook manufacturers.
