East-Tec Eraser 2006
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Protect your data and privacy and remove all evidence of your computer and online activity with East-Tec Eraser 2006. Eraser 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, previously deleted files, valuable corporate trade secrets, business plans, personal files, photos or confidential letters, or entire drives, floppy disks, CDs/DVDs, USB flash drives, etc.
East-Tec Eraser 2006 offers full support for popular browsers (Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, Mozilla Firefox, America Online, MSN Explorer, Opera), for Peer2Peer applications (Kazaa, Kazaa Lite, iMesh, Napster, Morpheus, Direct Connect, Limewire, Shareaza, etc.), and for other popular programs such as Windows Media Player, RealPlayer, Yahoo Messenger, ICQ, etc. Eraser has an intuitive interface and wizards that guide you through all the necessary steps needed to protect your privacy and sensitive information. Other features include support for custom privacy needs, user-defined erasure methods, scheduler functionality, command-line parameters, integration with Windows Explorer, password protection, and Anti-Surprise (Anti-Boss or Panic) Key feature.
The latest version comes with a Media Wiper to erase entire drives, support for updated versions of Yahoo Messenger, MSN Explorer, Norton Antivirus 2006, Opera and many others, and data retention to protect certain types of data.