East-Tec Eraser 2008 protects your privacy, identity and confidential information and removes all evidence of your computer and online activity. Eraser exceeds U.S. Department of Defense standards for the permanent erasure of digital information when erasing your Internet history, Web pages, pictures, unwanted cookies, chatroom conversations, confidential documents you want to get rid of or files deleted in the past. Key Features and Benefits:
* Destroy all evidence of your online activities: Clean Web Sites, pictures, movies, video clips, sounds, e-mail messages, chat room conversation history, AutoComplete, etc. * Destroy sensitive data from your computer: Clean traces of the documents and pictures you’ve recently accessed, and make sure that the files you are deleting are really gone * Remove cookies placed on your computer by Web sites. Keep only the cookies you approve * Supports the most popular Web Browsers: Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, America Online, MSN Explorer, Opera, Netscape Navigator, etc. * Supports all types of popular programs such as Messenger, Email, News, Player and P2P Programs * Very secure erasing: meets and exceeds the U.S. Department of Defense standards for the permanent erasure of digital information
In my opinion, the only way to safely remove personal information and documents from a computer will require a boat and proximity to an ocean or the great lakes. Working for a Federal law enforcement agency and with their experts in sector technology has taught me that there is always a way to recover data once it is placed on your hard drive. Perhaps this program would give someone piece of mind and prevent an amateur from recovering the data, but not an expert in recovery. I also read a posting on another site concerning this particular program and it indicated that one person experienced unrequested deletion of some information, but it came back whey they did a system restore. Thanks for taking the time to post OP; however, I have decided to pass on this one for my computers.
I downloaded this, and the frickin' thing went all HAL 9000 Space Odyssey on me and started automatically trying to delete EVERYTHING. I'm not a novice computer user. I had to over ride it and uninstall it piece by piece because it actually hid itself in my C drive just like a trojan virus would. XP uninstaller wouldn't remove it; I had to manually clean each scrap of it from my computer.
Also, despite the miserable experience listed above, it said I only had a 3 day license when I received the alleged '1 year' key from 'Giveaway of the Day.'
m123456890
Senior Member
posted: Aug. 28, 2008 @ 9:57a
Mr. & Mrs. Smith?
mastavic said: My girlfriend and I both got a copy. Thanks.
BTW, I also heard CCleaner does the same thing, and that many people who used this had everything that was supposedly deleted permanently come back with a system restore (as someone previously mentioned).
maodu
Member
posted: Aug. 28, 2008 @ 11:23a
for 15 days trial.
Can somebody tell me why I can't read all the messages next to the topic. If you can kindly send me by personal message. Thanks!
JesseLivermore said: Okay, opinions, comments and feedback welcome.
I downloaded this, and the frickin' thing went all HAL 9000 Space Odyssey on me and started automatically trying to delete EVERYTHING. I'm not a novice computer user. I had to over ride it and uninstall it piece by piece because it actually hid itself in my C drive just like a trojan virus would. XP uninstaller wouldn't remove it; I had to manually clean each scrap of it from my computer.
Also, despite the miserable experience listed above, it said I only had a 3 day license when I received the alleged '1 year' key from 'Giveaway of the Day.'
Based on that, I decided to skip downloading it and save myself the unnecessary headaches.
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