User manual ACRONIS PRIVACY EXPERT SUITE 7.0

[. . . ] Acronis Privacy Expert Suite 7. 0 User's Guide www. acronis. com Copyright © SWsoft, 2000-2003. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. OS/2 is a registered trademark of IBM Corporation. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group. [. . . ] The swap file clean-up is performed when the system shuts down. This file will be wiped after any reboot under Windows NT/2000/XP. 2. 15 Renaming clean-up variants Enabling/disabling separate component clean-up and selecting clean-up settings, you set up and customize your PC clean-up variant(s) as needed. That said, you will want to rename the variant(s) to better represent PC clean-up contents. If you want to rename a PC (or separate component) clean-up variant, you can do so by following one of these methods: · clicking on Rename on the sidebar 25 Chapter 2 Working with Acronis Privacy Expert Suite · · selecting Clean-up Rename from the main menu selecting Rename from the context menu of a PC (component) clean-up variant As a result of any of these actions, you will see the Rename Item window enabling you to enter a new name for a PC or component clean-up variant. 2. 16 Using the Log The Log keeps track of all actions performed by Acronis Privacy Expert Suite. It can provide you with complete actions history and reasons for any problems that have taken place. Log settings enables you to keep track with different degree of detail. You can select one of the following variants: · · · Everything Important information ­ error and spyware messages Nothing Log settings 26 Acronis Privacy Expert Suite Chapter 3. Complex PC clean-up Using variants of complex PC clean-up described below, you can clean a large number of various Windows components that regain evidence of your PC activity, and also remove various spyware that perform unauthorized actions on your PC. Vice versa, if you need to clean up only a specific Windows component, for example, last visited Internet pages, you should use one of the Acronis Privacy Expert Suite sections described below (see Chapter 4 «Separate PC components clean-up»). Separate component clean-up is faster than any variant of complex PC clean-up. 3. 1 Entire PC clean-up If you need to clean a PC of any evidence of your activity, select the Entire PC clean-up. Executing it, you'll be able to clean all Windows components accessible by Acronis Privacy Expert Suite: · · · · · · · · · · · · · · clean the Windows registry of user activity evidence delete temporary files from standard Windows folders delete any file types from user folders on any disks connected to the PC clean the Windows Recycle Bin clean hard disk free space clean the last visited pages and last used documents list delete evidence of searching for files on connected networkedcomputers, for information on the Internet clean the Internet cache delete cookies delete downloaded components clean up the Browsed URLs and History, stored in the browser address line remove e-mail (from MS Outlook and MS Outlook Express) and clean up Contacts and address book delete Web forms autocomplete and passwords for Web sites that require authorization remove spyware threats that perform secretly disks, for Entire PC clean-up is executed by a mouse-click on its name in the right part of the main window (for other execution methods see the sections 2. 5, 2. 13). For detailed descriptions of what Acronis Privacy Expert Suite performs in specific cases (how and what files, folders, system or registry sections it cleans from what data see the sections 2. 5, 2. 13). 27 3. 2 System clean-up If you need to wipe the evidence of your PC activity from its system sections, use the System clean-up. Executing it allows you to: · · · · · · · clean the Windows registry from user activity traces; delete temporary files from standard Windows folders; delete any file types from user folders on any disks connected to a PC; clean the Windows Recycle Bin; clean hard disk free space; clean the last used documents list; delete the evidence of searching for files on connected disks, for networked computers, for information on the Internet. System clean-up can be executed by mouse-clicking the clean-up variant in the right part of the main window (for other execution methods see the sections 2. 5, 2. 13). For detailed descriptions of what Acronis Privacy Expert Suite performs in specific cases, see Chapter 4 «Separate PC components clean-up». 3. 3 Internet clean-up If you need to wipe evidence of your Internet activity, use Internet clean-up. This variant allows you: · · · · · · Clean up the Internet cache delete cookies delete downloaded components clean the Internet history and last visited pages list remove e-mail (from MS Outlook and MS Outlook Express) and clean up contacts and address book delete Web forms autocomplete and passwords for Web sites that require authorization Internet clean-up can be executed by mouse-clicking its name in the right part of the main window (for other execution methods, see the sections 2. 5, 2. 13). For detailed descriptions of what Acronis Privacy Expert Suite performs in specific cases, see Chapter 4 «Separate PC components clean-up. 3. 4 Complete spyware clean-up If you need to clean your PC of various spyware that performs unauthorized actions, select Spyware clean-up. It will allow you to: · · · remove spyware and threats that operate secretly restore Web presets that have been changed without your notice. clean up the Trusted sites list of any unwanted addresses. 28 Acronis Privacy Expert Suite Chapter 4. Separate PC components cleanup In the One Click clean-up section, you were able to execute variants of complex PC clean-up (manually or scheduled), to clean a number of system components. These variants will suit most user needs. However, if you need to quickly clean up separate system components, use System clean-up, Internet components clean-up, and Spyware clean-up sections. [. . . ] It only requires specialized software and inexpensive hardware to read data «deleted» this way by analyzing magnetization of hard disk sectors, residual magnetization of track sides and/or by using current magnetic microscopes. Writing to magnetic media leads to subtle effects summarized as follows: every track of a disk stores an image of every record ever written to it, but the effect of such records (magnetic layer) becomes more subtle as time passes. A. 1 Information wiping methods functioning principles Physically, the complete wiping of information from a hard disk involves the switching of every elementary magnetic area of the recording material as many times as possible by writing specially selected sequences of logical 1 and 0 (also known as samples). Using logical data encoding methods in current hard disks, you can select samples of symbol (or elementary data bit) sequences to be written to sectors in order to repeatedly and effectively wipe confidential information. Methods offered by national standards provide (single or triple) recording of random symbols to disk sectors that are straightforward and arbitrary decisions, in general, but still acceptable in simple situations. [. . . ]