consists of five walls a front wall 13 side walls 12 and 14 a rear wall 15 and a top wall 16 instead of having a sixth side or bottom wall there is a bottom opening 25 side walls 12 and 14 have openings 21 and 23 respectively openings 21 and 23 allow the respective ends of the securing connector e g chain or cable etc to be inserted into and removed from the lock guard 11 so the ends can be secured to the shackle of the padlock fig3 in this particular embodiment of the present invention top wall 16 has an elongated slot 24 for temporary reception of the shackle of the padlock when the padlock is being installed in the lock guard 11 slot 24 allows the lock guard 11 to be used with padlocks having elongated shackles without increasing the size of the lock guard 11 fig2 is a perspective view of the lock guard 11 shown in fig1 with portions of sides 14 and 16 removed and all of side 15 removed to show the inside of lock guard 11 the four side walls 12 13 14 and 15 along with top wall 16 form a cavity 26 that is accessible through bottom opening 25 inside cavity 26 is a retainer tab 41 located immediately below openings 21 and 23 in side walls 12 and 14 retainer tab 41 has.