User manual ACRONIS PRIVACY EXPERT SUITE 7.0

[. . . ] Acronis Privacy Expert Suite 7. 0 User's Guide www. acronis. com Copyright © SWsoft, 2000-2003. Windows and MS-DOS are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. All other trademarks and copyrights referred to are the property of their respective owners. Distribution of substantively modified versions of this document is prohibited without the explicit permission of the copyright holder. [. . . ] For example, if a user opened too many Internet Explorer windows and entered personal information in one of them, then tried to switch to another Internet Explorer window, the operating system might lack enough physical memory for all the windows and store the contents of the previous one in its paging file. If a user closes browser windows after this, there is a strong possibility that confidential information will have been left in the paging file. To perform Paging file clean-up, click on the corresponding item in the Tools section sidebar and follow the instructions of the clean-up wizard. Paging file cleaner Wizard After swap file clean-up under Windows 95/98/Me, Acronis Privacy Expert Suite offers to reboot your PC. 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. [. . . ] This problem can be explained in the following way: Data is stored on a hard disk as a binary sequence of 1 and 0 (ones and zeros), represented by differently magnetized parts of a disk. Generally speaking, a 1 written to a hard disk is read as 1 by its controller, and 0 is read as 0. However, of you write 1 over 0, the result is conditionally 0. 95 and vice versa ­ if 1 is written over 1 the result is 1. 05. However, using special equipment, one can easily read the «underlying» sequence of 1 and 0. [. . . ]