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How to Password Protect Microsoft Word 2010 Document

Different Microsoft Word users have different requirements for their Word documents. Some of them use the Word document to only write down their feelings, some of them use the Word document to assign task, and some of them use it to check out the spelling mistake. For some reasons, they even need to create a password to protect their Word document.



But what if they have no idea about how to password protect Word document by themselves? It doesnt matter. In this article I will take the Word 2010 as an example and you will learn about this.

How to password protect Word 2010 document is a question that we have to figure out. If we know how to do that, then other version of Microsoft Word will be simple enough to encrypt. Now lets see how to password protect a document in Word 2010 as below:

Step 1: Just like other Microsoft Office document, you have to open your Word 2010 document in order to encrypt it. Therefore, if you dont open your Word 2010 document, just double click it.



Step 2: After opening this document, you can see the File menu on the top left corner of the Word document. Just click it and then the Info option will turn out. Move the mouse to it and then the Permissions option will appear. Under this option, there is another option named Encrypt with Password.



Step 3: Click the Encrypt with Password and then it will pop up a window to ask for typing a password. Just type whatever password you would like to and then click the OK button.



Step 4: After step three, you have finished the process to password protect Word 2010 document. The next time when you open this document, you will have to import the password in order to decrypt this Word 2010 document.



Isnt it easy for Word 2010 document encryption? It is the same as the other version of Word. Have you got it? By the way, if you lost this Word password, you can use a Word password recovery tool to retrieve lost password in Word document.

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How to protect your computer from malware infested thumbdrive

I have seen virus infected thumbdrives especially on computers that is poorly administrated (i.e. Users given administrative privilege) and especially when the users have no clue of the dangers of internet and downloads suspicious files with executable extensions.
Combine this with not-so-frequently updated anti-virus software it is a foregone conclusion malware infection will occur.

This will lead to frequent system crashes and poor Windows Experience and end of the day people usually point fingers at Microsoft etc and not themselves as the cause of malware infection.

As the system gets laden with more and more viruses system crashes and lag occur as the malware attempts to make unauthorised connection to the internet depending on what it was originally designed for.
Most virus do not attempt to disable the computer for obvious reasons.
They want to stay undetected so they can steal data from the infected host or simply use the host as part of a bot network, however things get ugly when more different viruses comes into play.

A virus will compete with other programs including other Virus for system resources if the computer do not have sufficient resource to feed them lag occurs if other viruses attempt to interfere with system files hijacked by other viruses a clash will resulting in system crash and Blue Screen Of Death.

Malware spread via a number of medium Internet as well as Removable Drives.
As the topic is fairly big I shall only focus on how to prevent Virus on thumbdrive from entering your host system.

First of all when I insert a thumbdrive a good anti-virus will attempt to scan it, if the Virus signature match it database it wil immediately isolate the file to prevent it from running as shown below.

The good news is even if you dont have anti-virus you can prevent them from running and see if the thumbdrive is infected .

Lets take a look at the infected thumbdrive.
Go to Folder Options and make the following changes to enable you to see all the files present on a thumbdrive.
Select "Show Hidden Files and Folders"
Uncheck "Hide Extension For Known File Types"
Uncheck "Hide Protected System Files and Folders"
If you have a Linux/BSD/Solaris System Partition you can boot in it and attempt to take a look into your Windows Partition, all the System Files in the C: will show up (including both important Windows System Files and Malware).


Malware usually obscure themselves as system files so you will not be able to spot them if you do not set the setting shown above.
Take note REAL system files will also reveal themselves so DO NOT delete files if you are not sure they are Windows System Files or not.
Deleting Windows System Files can cause System to be UNBOOTABLE.

Soon you can see other virus showing up.( Note:SPENSER.EXE is no longer on the drive as the Anti-Virus removed it)


A strangely named file can be seen above probably another virus which attempted to copy itself to the thumbdrive but SPENSER.EXE beat it to hijacking of the autorun.inf so it doesnt do anything.

As I have said Viruses hijack system files for them to perform misdeeds on thumbdrive they usually hijack autorun.inf.
Note: autorun.inf is originally a system file to enable users to autolaunch installation programs upon insertion of removable drive.

Lets take a look at the infected thumbdrives autorun.inf (Right Click Open with Notepad).

If you remembered earlier the system anti-virus detected SPENSER.EXE
Look at how SPENSER.EXE hijacked the autorun.inf in order to auto launch itself upon insertion of the thumbdrive.

So how can you prevent this?
It is simple. Simply disable autorun in Xp or autoplay in Vista.
If autoplay/autorun is disabled the system will ignore the autorun.inf hence preventing the virus from runnning effectively and if you remember Virus hide themselves as System Files so you will never launch it accidentally.
However this is only for generic virus.
Some Virus are powerpoint or word macros programmed so disable Macro in Office Software will do the trick.

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