86Security score
- Windows SecurityOn
- FirewallOn
- Drive encryptionOff
- Free space41 GB
- Temporary files3.2 GB
- Startup apps9
Clean temporary filesOpen Windows Security
Why habits beat heroics
Most privacy advice is either too technical or too alarming to stick. The truth is more ordinary: the people who rarely get into trouble are not experts, they simply have a few dull routines that they repeat without thinking. Each habit below takes seconds once it is a habit. For each one we also say, honestly, where MoLock helps and where it does not need to.
At your desk
1. Lock the screen every time you step away
The most common privacy incident is not a hacker. It is a colleague, a relative or a stranger in a café glancing at an unlocked screen: a chat, an inbox, an open bank tab. Press Win + L whenever you stand up — it takes less than a second and should become as automatic as taking your phone with you.
How MoLock helps: you will not always remember, so MoLock can lock on its own after a period of inactivity, on a schedule, or when your paired phone moves out of Bluetooth range. If someone approaches the locked PC, their photo reaches your Telegram.
2. Use strong, unique passwords — and a password manager
Reusing one password across sites means that a leak at the least careful of them unlocks all the others. Use a different password for every account, and let a password manager remember them. For the passwords you must type yourself (your Windows sign-in, your MoLock lock password), choose a long phrase of several unrelated words rather than a short jumble of symbols.
How MoLock helps: signing in to your MoLock Account needs both your password and a one-time code from the official Telegram bot, so a guessed or leaked password alone is not enough.
Keep Windows healthy
3. Install updates, and keep Windows Security switched on
Updates close holes that attackers already know about; postponing them for weeks leaves those holes open. Let Windows install updates, restart when it asks, and make sure Windows Security (the built-in antivirus) and the firewall are on. On laptops, also check whether drive encryption is available and enabled — it protects your files if the laptop is stolen while switched off.
4. Review the apps that start with your PC
Every app that launches at startup slows the PC down a little and runs quietly in the background, often with more access than it needs. Once a month, open Task Manager → Startup apps and switch off anything you do not recognise or do not need running all day.
86Security score
- Windows SecurityOn
- FirewallOn
- Drive encryptionOff
- Free space41 GB
- Temporary files3.2 GB
- Startup apps9
Clean temporary filesOpen Windows Security
How MoLock helps: the new PC health & security score looks at Windows Security, the firewall, drive encryption, pending updates, free disk space, temporary files and the number of startup apps, and turns them into a score out of 100 with a fix tip for each weak spot. One button cleans temporary files; another opens Windows Security for you. If you linked the PC to your account, you can see the same card from your phone.
Before you share anything
5. Remove the location from photos
Photos taken on a phone usually carry hidden details, often including the exact place they were taken. Share a picture of your new sofa on a public group and you may be sharing your home address with it. Many apps strip this information, many do not, and you rarely know which is which.
How MoLock helps: right-click any photo and choose Remove location; MoLock saves a clean copy. While you are there, compress it so it is not twenty times bigger than it needs to be.
6. Blur before you send a screenshot
Screenshots are the easiest way to explain a problem, and the easiest way to leak an email address, an order number, a face in a video call or the tabs you had open. Crop tightly and blur anything that is not the point of the picture.
How MoLock helps: the PrintScreen key now opens MoLock's capture tool, where blurring a region is one drag. See screen recording and GIFs without extra apps.
7. Don't leave secrets on the clipboard
Whatever you copied last waits there until something replaces it — and gets pasted into the wrong window more often than anyone admits. After pasting a password or an account number, copy a harmless word to push it out.
How MoLock helps: the new clipboard history never stores text that looks like a password or a card number, nor anything a password manager marks as private. Read the clipboard, reimagined.
8. Share files with links that expire
A file attached to an email or uploaded to a public link lives forever: in sent folders, in backups, in the hands of whoever the link was forwarded to. For anything personal, prefer a link that expires, is limited to a few downloads, and can carry a password.
Share linkend-to-end encrypted
molock.pages.dev/s/7Hq2Xk#k=Vb3pQe…9sLw
Reaches the service: the file number only
The key: stays in the link, never sent
Expires in 7 daysPassword3 downloadsDelete after first download
How MoLock helps: right-click a file and choose Share link. The file is encrypted on your PC with a fresh key that travels only inside the link itself. You choose how long it lives (from one hour to 30 days), an optional password, a maximum number of downloads, or deletion after the first download.
Privacy is rarely lost in one dramatic moment. It leaks out through small gaps.
Plan for the bad day
9. Back up what matters — and lock away what is sensitive
A failed disk, a spilled coffee or a stolen laptop should be an inconvenience, not a catastrophe. Keep a copy of your important files somewhere else: an external drive at home, or a backup service you trust. Separately, keep the truly sensitive files (ID scans, contracts, medical papers) in an encrypted place rather than an ordinary folder.
How MoLock helps: MoLock Vault is an encrypted drive in This PC that locks itself whenever MoLock locks. It is not a backup — keep one as well. And if the laptop goes missing, Lost mode locks it, shows your contact details on screen and helps you find it.
10. Actually read your sign-in alerts
Most services email you when someone signs in from a new device. Most people ignore those emails. Take five seconds to read each one: if it was not you, change the password immediately and sign out every other session.
A ten-minute start
You do not need to adopt all ten today. If you have ten minutes, do this:
- Lock Press Win + L now, just to feel how quick it is, and turn on auto-lock.
- Check Open Windows Security and confirm the antivirus and firewall are on; install pending updates tonight.
- Trim Switch off two startup apps you do not need.
- Move Put your ID scans and contracts in an encrypted place, and make one backup copy of your most important folder.
- See all the new helpers on the Tools page and the MoLock Account page.
- More situations and fixes in our privacy guide.
- Get MoLock: free download.