East-Tec Eraser 2006

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Publisher: EAST Technologies
Price: $44.95
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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.

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Great if used only when needed.

By thecritic on Tue, 2008-01-08 13:43
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Pros: Very easy to use. Extremely powerful.
Cons: High priced.
East-Tec Eraser 2006 is perfect for those of you that need a little privacy on a computer that is shared by others. This program even has a task scheduler that will remember when you dont. It will...
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Excellent security software

By zzcs on Tue, 2007-09-18 09:17
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Pros: No
Cons: Heavyweight
East-Tec Eraser 2006 is a computer in secret to protect the security of software, you can in accordance with the intention of completely remove sensitive data, protect your privacy with software and...
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Wow I look this Guys reallt cool

By wansly123 on Mon, 2007-06-04 06:51
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Pros: Good for business, keeps safe your corporate secrets.
Cons: I don't know whether it is safe for HDD to repeat the scan-erase procedure on daily or weekly basis. Could damage the hard disk in time or could not damage it, I really don't know.
This is useful software for fully erasing deleted data and privacy traces from your hard disk. It means it can be used either at work or by both you and your teen children to fully delete your late...
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East-Tec Eraser 2007

By alex2pb on Thu, 2007-04-26 23:33
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Pros: Ease of use, intuitive interface, integration with the operating system
Cons: The price is a little bit big for the offered features and the program tends to be slow
East-Tec Eraser 2007 is a good privacy cleaner and data eraser, but on the first run, I found some things I don't like. First, from all the products I tested, this one is the slowest in its category....
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Mr Clean for your computer

By coyote0010 on Mon, 2007-03-19 00:06
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Pros: Seems to clean all the old cookies and temporary internet files completely from your computer quite nicely
Cons: Price and speed
The download and installation of this program was as user friendly as I've seen. The wizard takes you through the steps and no computer restart is required to get it working. (I like that) The...
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Tough Stuff

By mchlgryn on Tue, 2007-02-20 08:41
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Pros: I like all the features of East-Tec Eraser, it's user friendly.
Cons: Backup features missing.
Features such as Privacy Guard are great feature to secure your computer from the outside world. It erases cache files, cookies to protect sensitive data from user’s online activity. When we...
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It really works, but how serious are you?

By Mack Taff on Mon, 2007-02-19 18:43
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Pros: It works, Variety of wiping methods
Cons: Price
When you first open east-tec eraser you will notice four big buttons. Those four buttons will pretty much do everything you will need to do as far as deleting files and protecting private...
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East-Tec Eraser: Good for business use

By Grayzag on Mon, 2006-09-04 12:10
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Pros: Great to keep your files secret, especially for businesses Easy to use Customisable
Cons: Wears out your Hard Drive quickly Slow to erase Not useful unless you paranoid
I found this to be an outstanding protector of your personal data. When you are browsing the net, you leave behind traces of your personal information. Normally such evidence is found in Internet...
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Safely erase already deleted data from your hard disk

By soric3l on Fri, 2006-05-05 11:48
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Pros: Good for business, keeps safe your corporate secrets.
Cons: I don't know whether it is safe for HDD to repeat the scan-erase procedure on daily or weekly basis. Could damage the hard disk in time or could not damage it, I really don't know.
This is useful software for fully erasing deleted data and privacy traces from your hard disk. It means it can be used either at work or by both you and your teen children to fully delete your late...
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