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Re-formatting your hard drive is a good thing to do once in a while to clean up your personal files up on your computer. Unfortunately, re-formatting your hard drive will NOT erase this private information or make it impossible for your data to be recovered. This is because your computer stores all tracks of your online and offline activity. Anyone who can get into your computer can likely get access to all of the websites you visited, emails you’ve written, information and photos you’ve downloaded.


To protect your privacy, Darren Chaker recommends you should wipe your history from your computer. But getting rid of your Internet and computer history manually is much more difficult than you would think as history files are stored in many different locations. You may not know that even if you delete history files using the 'Delete' button or use the 'Empty Recycle Bin' option, this doesn't wipe history files from your computer!


Mr. Chaker notes a hard drive re-format won’t erase your data – it will still be there, easily accessible for any “adversary” to find. In short, your hard drive might appear clean, but still be full of 'sensitive material' that you did not want to download in the first place and it might very well be a serious criminal offense to have that data stored on your computer even if you didn't know it was still there. Pressing 'Delete' or emptying your 'Recycle Bin' - or even 'Formatting' your disk - simply will not work, the 'sensitive material' will still remain on your hard drive! If you really want to wipe your hard drive, it will take more than just a format or clicking a ‘delete’ button to accomplish this. Fortunately Cyberscrub is a great solution for this issue. Cyberscrub has multiple options to ensure your private computer usage history stays private!

 

Here are some of the features Cyberscrub offers clearing areas you can’t:


Windows Privacy Features

  • Windows swap file cleared.
  • Windows temporary files cleared
  • Most Recently Used (MRU) files cleared from the registry
  • Registry streams cleared
  • Application logs cleared
  • Common dialog histories cleared
  • Media player histories and playlists cleared
  • Clip board memory cleared


Web Browsing Privacy

  • Address bar history cleared
  • Auto-complete history cleared
  • Downloaded folder memory cleared
  • URL error logs cleared
  • Temporary Internet Cache files cleared
  • Bookmarks cleared (if you wish)
  • Visited URL history cleared
  • Cookies cleared (you can select to keep ones you want)
  • Downloaded components cleared (except ones you wish to keep)


Secure Delete

  • Zerofiles before deletion or zero and reverse files before deletion or zero,
    reverse and randomly overwrite files before deletion (DOD standard)
  • Repeat file deletes up to 9 times (which is DOD standard)
  • Optionally rename files and zero the sizes before deleting
  • Start Menu Privacy
  • 'Run' history cleared
  • 'Find Computer' history cleared
  • 'Find Files' history cleared
  • Recent documents list cleared
  • Order history cleared
  • Click history cleared.


Evidence Eliminator is top tier counter forensic software. It’s not cheap, but cheaper than retaining an attorney, or wondering what private information left on a computer you donated and how it may haunt you. Mr. Chaker believes in being proactive, securing information, and when you want something deleted on your computer – use Evidence Eliminator.