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Universal Shield for Windows

  • Trial version
  • In English
  • V4.2
  • 2.9
  • (17)
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Hide, encrypt and protect files and folders with important data

Universal Shield is a good, trial version Windows program, that belongs to the category Security software with subcategory Blockers & Access Control (more specifically Visibility).

More about Universal Shield

It's available for users with the operating system Windows 2000 and former versions, and it is only available in English. Its current version is 4.2 and it has been updated on 2/06/2008.Since the program joined our selection of programs and apps in 2003, it has already achieved 21,736 downloads, and last week it achieved 3 downloads.About the download, Universal Shield is a slick program that takes up less space than most programs in the category Security software. It's very heavily used in some countries such as India, Azerbaijan, and Netherlands.

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App specs

  • License

    Trial version

  • Version

    4.2

  • Latest update

  • Platform

    Windows

  • OS

    Windows XP

  • Language

    English

  • Downloads

    3.5K

    Last month's downloads

    • 2

  • Size

    1.96 MB

  • Developer

    • Everstrike

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Universal Shield for PC

  • Trial version
  • In English
  • V4.2
  • 2.9
  • (17)

User reviews about Universal Shield

by Anonymous

Universal Shield 4.x Has Two Critical Security Bugs. Universal Shield 4.x has two critical security bugs:1. Clear User's Password.2. Unlock all your protection (for a legal registration version) even if password is set.How to do:1. Clear User's Password(1) Delete the registry key:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMControlSet001ServicesUS30SysUSPassword(2) Now your password is reset, and you can access Universal Shield without password.(3) This bug is fixed in last release of version 4.2 (i.e. it works in version <=4.1 or some releases of version 4.2)2. Unlock all your protection (for a legal rregistration version) even if password is set(1) Delete the registry key:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREEverStrike SoftwareUS42Key(2) Run Universal Shield and click "Unlock".(If your Universal Shield is in stealth mode, press Win+R keys and type "C:Program FilesUniversal Shield 4.2USPro.exe" to launch.)(3) Now all your protection has been unlocked, Universal Shield exists in name only.(4) This bug has NOT been fixed in last release of version 4.2 (2008/9/4).(5) This bug works for a legal registration version.

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