Mipko%20Personal%20Monitor%20%D0%B4%D0%BB%D1%8F%20Mac_scr_monitor-filter.png' alt='Netwrix Usb Blocker' title='Netwrix Usb Blocker' />Use auditing to track who deleted your files. I had a reader write me a few days ago Im in a school environment and a student has deleted some files and I would like to know how I can do this in Win. Netwrix Usb Blocker' title='Netwrix Usb Blocker' />Please advice and more power to you. Auto Captcha Work Software. This can be accomplished through auditing. Lets start out by identifying what folder we want to watch and be careful where you turn on auditingturn it on too many folders with too many options and you can have huge performance issues. We find the folder we want, and right click on it and go to properties. This will bring up the properties page for the folder. Move over to the security tab, and click on the advanced button The advanced page will appear. Click on the Auditing tab, and click the add button A user dialog will come up. I chose to put the Everyone group here. This allows me to audit for any possible user account that may be deleting files. If you think you know who it might beyou could put those users here instead. The smaller window of users being audited means better performance. Theoretically, I think the following should allow for select users to have access to USB storage while blocking others. Though it may not start the USBStor service. FYI, I finally found a solution Netwrix has a free USB blocking software http that integrates with Active. Kilauea Mount Etna Mount Yasur Mount Nyiragongo and Nyamuragira Piton de la Fournaise Erta Ale. No more missed important software updates UpdateStar 11 lets you stay up to date and secure with the software on your computer. USB Block is a USB Blocking software to prevent unauthorized USB and External drives from accessing your PC. Prevent data leaks protect your business files. Once you click OK, a selection box will be displayed. Again chose only the options you need. Each additional option will reduce performance. Here I just pick the options to audit deleting files and folders. Click OK through all of the windows you have open. If a user deletes a file or folder Windows will write an event to the security log. Now. We have our auditing turned on, and you get to work one morning and find that files are missing. Simply open the event viewer and move over to the security log. Look for the event ID 5. Double click on the event, and you will need to sit there and read it for a little bit to determine who did what. Here is an excerpt from mine I copied the text from event viewer to notepad for easier readingWe can see from this log entry that the user Administrator deleted the file setuperr. Free Utilities software, free Utilities freeware. Copyrights 2011 by OnlyFreewares. SecurityXploded is an Infosec Research Organization offering 200 FREE SecurityPassword Recovery Tools, latest Research Articles and FREE Training on Reversing. Now when someone deletes a file, you will have no problem determining who did it. If you have a windows administration question, or an idea for a utility please send me an email at supportintelliadmin. I cant promise that I will answer every email, but I try to read them all. One more thingSubscribe to my newsletter and get 1. Click Here to get your free tools.