User manual ACRONIS PRIVACY EXPERT SUITE 8.0

[. . . ] User's Guide Acronis Privacy Expert Suite 8. 0 Compute with confidence www. acronis. com Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2005. 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. [. . . ] You will see what spyware applications are found and which files and registry keys are related to them: 22 Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2005 Spyware removal and Spyware Shield Spyware scanning results Information about particular spyware applications will be available in the lefthand part of the wizard window after you select spyware from the list with a mouse. All spyware found will be automatically checked for removal. If you, want to leave some spyware applications or their components, uncheck them in the resulting list. (Some common applications are sometimes identified as spyware. This option gives you the ability to keep those programs and/or settings. ) After you finish forming the list of spyware to be removed, click Next. In the next window, you will see the final script of spyware removal operations. Spyware removal operations final script To execute the script, click Proceed. Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2005 23 Spyware removal and Spyware Shield After spyware clean-up is finished, you will see a summary that will state the amount of spyware applications removed. 3. 1. 2 Setting up the Spyware Removal Wizard To set up the Spyware Removal Wizard, select Configure Spyware Removal Options in the Spyware Removal window. Selecting scanning mode There are two modes of searching for spyware: Smart scanning mode ­ used by default. In this case, the suite searches for spyware only in the most likely locations, including system, user profile and temporary files folders, as well as in the system registry. Deep scanning mode ­ an extended algorithm for spyware scanning. In this case, all folders on all PC hard drives are searched. This variant could take much more time depending on the capacity of your hard disks. Spyware scanning modes Setting up Smart scanning mode Having selected Smart scanning mode, you can manually edit the spyware to be removed by the Spyware Removal Wizard: 24 Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2005 Spyware removal and Spyware Shield Spyware category selection Setting up Deep scanning mode If you selected Deep scanning mode, you can manually select disks and folders in which to search for spyware: Disk and folders selection Saving settings All Spyware Removal Wizard settings will be active until you change them. Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2005 25 Spyware removal and Spyware Shield 3. 2 Spyware protection Acronis Privacy Expert Suite not only enables you to remove spyware, but also prevent it from getting on your PC in the first place. This is provided by Spyware Shield -- a special tool that monitors your system for suspicious applications and components. 3. 2. 1 Enabling Spyware Shield You can enable Spyware Shield during Acronis Privacy Expert Suite installation (for more details see Chapter 1 «Installing Acronis Privacy Expert Suite»). If you haven't done this already, you can enable it any time you want. To enable Spyware Shield, select Run spyware shield now in the Spyware Shield category: Spyware shield window After Spyware Shield is enabled, you will see its icon in the Task Bar Notification Area. 3. 2. 2 Setting up Spyware Shield You can change settings of Spyware Shield using its setup wizard. General options In the Spyware Shield General options window, you can specify types of spyware to protect your PC from: Known threats only ­ Spyware Shield will only prevent spyware which is described in its database. 26 Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2005 Spyware removal and Spyware Shield All suspicious activities ­ Spyware Shield will warn you about all suspicious programs or processes that are trying to change the Windows registry or are launched at startup. This is the recommended setting for experienced users. General options window Advanced options The Advanced options section enables more detailed setup of Spyware Shield and offers the following settings: Prevent browser hijacking ­ Spyware Shield will prevent applications from making changes to your Web browser settings, including home page, search page, etc Guard against start-up changes ­ will prevent suspicious programs and processes from launching at Windows startup Guard ActiveX configuration ­ will prevent changing settings of ActiveX components Analyze running processes ­ will constantly monitor running processes and warn you about any suspicious actions of unknown programs. Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2005 27 Spyware removal and Spyware Shield Advanced options window Saving Spyware Shield settings Having set up Spyware Shield, you can browse the resulting settings in the final script and click Proceed if everything is correct. All Spyware Shield settings will be active until you change them again. 3. 3 Spyware definitions updates Offering you timely and reliable protection from new spyware released as often as every day, Acronis Privacy Expert launches the special Spyware definitions updates service. It enables users to obtain the most up-to-date information and spyware protection from Acronis website. When you purchase Acronis Privacy Expert Suite, you also subscribe to spyware definitions updates. When the subscription period is over, you can renew your right to use Spyware Definitions Updates service at Acronis website. 3. 3. 1 Product registration Remember that spyware definitions updates service is available for registered users of Acronis Privacy Expert Suite only!You can register you copy of the program at Acronis website following this link: http://www. acronis. com/enterprise/registration/ Your login is your valid email address. 28 Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2005 Spyware removal and Spyware Shield 3. 3. 2 Running Spyware Definitions Updates Wizard You can run Spyware Definitions Updates Wizard the following ways: By clicking Web updates on sidebar of Acronis Privacy Expert Suite main window By selecting Settings Web updates in the menu By clicking Web updates on the toolbar. Spyware definitions update wizard 3. 3. 3 Selecting update mode Having run Spyware Definitions Updates Wizard, you can select the update mode: either manual, or scheduled automatic: To update spyware definitions right now, select Update spyware definitions now To automatically update spyware definitions on a suitable schedule, select Update automatically. Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2005 29 Spyware removal and Spyware Shield Selecting update mode window 3. 3. 4 Entering the account information After you select the update mode, you will be prompted to enter the account information you provided while registering your copy of Acronis Privacy Expert Suite. This includes valid email address, password and program serial number (or subscription serial number if you are renewing your subscription to spyware definitions update service): Entering the account information window 30 Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2005 Spyware removal and Spyware Shield 3. 3. 5 Setting the schedule If you selected automatic updates, you will be asked to set the suitable schedule. The following variants are available: Do not start automatically Daily, according to the schedule with the ability to select only workdays or once every few days Weekly, according to the schedule with the ability to select particular days, such as Tuesday and Friday, or once every two or three weeks, etc Monthly, according to the schedule on the time and day set; The suite supports clean-up on the <first, second, third, fourth, last> <day of the week> (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday), for example One time only, at a specific time (hours:minutes) on a particular day (month/day/year) When my computer starts When I log on When my computer shuts down When I log off Having selected any variant, click Next to set additional parameters on the second wizard page. Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2005 31 Internet Clean-up Chapter 4. Internet Clean-up 4. 1 General information The greatest threat to the privacy of your work has the Web as its source. [. . . ] It's based on his theory of hard disk information wiping (see http://www. cs. auckland. ac. nz/~pgut001 /pubs/secure_del. html). Bruce Schneier offers a seven-pass overwriting method in his Applied Cryptography book. 1st pass ­ 0xFF, 2nd pass ­ 0x00, and then five times with a cryptographically secure pseudo-random sequence. Logical zeros (0x00 numbers) to all sectors to wipe. 2. [. . . ]