IT Works News
October 7, 2008
Release of PC Lock® v. 1.0.9

Changes:

[+] Optimized message exchange module to improve application speed and reliability

 
June 8, 2008
Interview of W. Banks with Toronto Sun

...He bought his daughter laptop for Christmas and she chose Internet over family...

 

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System Gate
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What is PC Lock®?

PC Lock® allows you to remotely control the PC access time of any computer that you allow your employees or contractors access to, anywhere in the World. You can Lock, Restart, turn the power off on any PC.

For example, your company has flexibility to allow your employees to work from home. You gave laptops to a group of people and want to make sure that they don't use these laptops for their own needs. By minimizing use of Computers and Laptops when it is not for your business, you will extend your hardware lifetime and also minimize the chance of your system being destroyed by Viruses, SPY or Adware. So, you can create a schedule for each of your employees, say to allow PC use from 9 to 5 PM Monday to Friday and have the other time your laptops or PCs turned OFF.

Example 2: Your Company does some research, so you hired temporary staff to collect some data for you. After they finished the work, they have to return laptops to you. Some of your contracted employees didn't bring the laptops in time, so you can send a command with PC Lock® to these laptops to lock them, making this laptops and its data useless until it unlocked again. So, you make these employees to contact you as soon as possible.

Example 3: You are leasing company and collecting money for sold laptops on a monthly basis. At some point you stopped receiving money from one of your customers, so, you can send a command with PC Lock® to lock this person's computer until he contacts you and the payments will be made in full.

How does PC Lock® remotely control PC time?

The Administrator registers the Admin's account on the secure server and, then registers all PCs that company employees or contractors will take out of the office.

From this point PC Lock® Admin and Client modules establishing secure encrypted communication between Office and employees' PCs.

Administrator, schedules On/OFF PC time for each PC that will be given to a company employees (users).

When the time is to shutdown or lock a remote PC, PC Lock® timer turns off or locks user's PC automatically and sends a command to a server confirming that user's PC is locked as scheduled.

Administrator can remotely change time schedule for any PC registered with him through the Admin's module of PC Lock®.

If someone tries to block PC Lock® from talking to the server, after certain unsuccessful attemptions to establish  contact with the server, the client's module of Ez PC Lock® will lock user's PC, making the user to contact the server though his PC or to contact company administrator.

Windows Vista Compatible