Originally Posted by stephen122333:
“Don't quote me but I think you can do an encrypted back up, where you need a password to be able to use the backup. I can only assume this would protect the data stored on the PC, and stop it from being viewable.”
It would indeed! You need to supply the password to restore from an encrypted backup as well.
Encrypted backups have the advantage that they contain iDevice passwords - so these won't need to be reentered after the restore