East-Tec Eraser 2008 8.9.2.100

Publisher's Description:

East-Tec Eraser will protect your data and privacy and remove all evidence of your computer and online activity. It goes beyond U.S. Department of Defense standards for the permanent erasure of digital information and easily removes every trace of sensitive data from your computer. Completely destroy information stored without your knowledge or approval: Internet history, Web pages and pictures from sites visited on the Internet, unwanted cookies, chatroom conversations, deleted e-mail messages, temporary files, the Windows swap file, the Recycle Bin and previously deleted files that may be recovered by anyone that has access to your computer or by hackers, private investigators and law enforcement agencies.

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Latest User Reviews:

Reviewer:	pjb	Mar 26, 2008
Version:	8.9.0.103
Continues to improve with each build. They added some new system alert thing, which could be ok for some users, however not everyones cup of tea! At least there is a easy way to disable that feature should you decide not to use it. I would have preferred an option to choose weather to install that component or not during the initial install.
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Reviewer:	pjb	Dec 17, 2006
Version:	8.0
I am currently using build 8.0.0.240, and have found it works really well. Apart from some cosmetic changes to the UI it seems the same as Cyberscrub - However East-Tec Eraser seems more up-to-date with the programmes that are out there, the updates are more readily accessible, and according to other reviews I have read their support seems better.
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Reviewer:	TC17	Nov 11, 2005
Version:	7.0
There may be other programs that do wiping. But this is the only one that I have seen that has many different wipe methods not found in other products. Such as Russian GOST P50739-95, German VSItR, U.S. NAVSO P-5239-26, B. Schneier's algorithm, and others. Also its the only one I know of that scrambles the file names & properties if you configure it to, which is just as important. Along with erasing the extra "slack" space. The negative to this program is its cost, and its upgrade cost. Another negative I should mention is that its now using the stupid online activation cr*p. I've had to email them a couple of times to re-activate my copy because of reinstalling windows too many times. Its dang annoying and I hate it, but until another program comes with the same features, I have no choice.
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Reviewer:	Nogard	Nov 10, 2005
Version:	7.0
Nice program. But there are free things out there does the same thing. Plus the version number is wrong. The website is saying it's 2006 not 2005.
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Reviewer:	Antibuddha	Feb 3, 2005
Version:	6.0
I really like this powerful program. Aside from being a workhorse that allows the user to define wiping parameters as high as any personal use program that I've seen, it also provides the user a slider to assign the level of system resources to commit to the wiping operation. I've found that by going offline and shutting down all other active programs and running at the highest level, the engine can complete its operation in much faster time than any other wiper I've sampled. The typical browser, cache, history, etc, cleaning module is smooth and quick and easily customized.
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