ACRONIS PRIVACY EXPERT SUITE 7.0 Betriebsanweisung

Acronis Privacy Expert Suite 7.0 User’s Guide www.acronis.com

10 Acronis Privacy Expert Suiteproblems installing or using the system that you cannot resolve with the help of this guide and readme file, please e

11 Chapter 1. Installing Acronis Privacy Expert Suite 1.1 What’s included • installation CD-ROM • this guide • License Agreement • registratio

12 Chapter 2. Working with Acronis Privacy Expert Suite 2.1 Getting started The Acronis Privacy Expert Suite user interface features standard Wind

Chapter 2 Working with Acronis Privacy Expert Suite 13Clean-up variants are executed, set, scheduled and renamed with the help of corresponding item

14 Acronis Privacy Expert Suite1. a quick clean-up of only separate components of Windows system sections and separate user files/folders, execute

Chapter 2 Working with Acronis Privacy Expert Suite 152.4.2 Scheduled tasks The scheduled clean-up (see the section 2.13 Executing scheduled PC clea

16 Acronis Privacy Expert Suite Using File Shredder 2.7 Folders/files clean-up through the context menu Acronis Privacy Expert Suite provides an ea

Chapter 2 Working with Acronis Privacy Expert Suite 17Folders/files clean-up through the context menu The context menu also allows you to securely c

18 Acronis Privacy Expert Suite «Files» setting 3. To save your settings, click Apply. To discard changes, click Cancel. If you need to restore Acr

Chapter 2 Working with Acronis Privacy Expert Suite 192.10 System component clean-up settings «Data Destruction Method» and «Files» settings are co

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20 Acronis Privacy Expert SuiteUnder the Windows operating system, a search string can represent a full or partial filename. A search string can con

Chapter 2 Working with Acronis Privacy Expert Suite 211. delete only specific file types from the Recycle Bin (system or user folder), enter filena

22 Acronis Privacy Expert Suite2.11 Clean-up settings of components related to working on the Internet The «Internet Browsers» and «Address» settin

Chapter 2 Working with Acronis Privacy Expert Suite 23. . . and so on. All files downloaded from sites fully or partially corresponding to at least

24 Acronis Privacy Expert SuiteAcronis Privacy Expert Suite features a built-in scheduler. 2.13.1 Invoking the scheduler Having mouse-clicked a cle

Chapter 2 Working with Acronis Privacy Expert Suite 25Having selected any variant, click Next to set additional parameters on the second wizard page

26 Acronis Privacy Expert Suite• selecting Clean-up Æ Rename from the main menu • selecting Rename from the context menu of a PC (component) clea

27 Chapter 3. Complex PC clean-up Using variants of complex PC clean-up described below, you can clean a large number of various Windows compone

28 Acronis Privacy Expert Suite3.2 System clean-up If you need to wipe the evidence of your PC activity from its system sections, use the System cle

29 Chapter 4. Separate PC components clean-up In the One Click clean-up section, you were able to execute variants of complex PC clean-up (manually

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30 Acronis Privacy Expert Suite4.1.2 Temporary Files Temporary files clean-up enables you to thoroughly destroy temporary files from the special sys

Chapter 4 Separate PC components clean-up 314.1.4 Custom Folders/Files Custom folders/files clean-up enables you to wipe files from selected folders

32 Acronis Privacy Expert SuiteUnder Windows 95/98/Me, registry files are system.dat, user.dat, located in the C:\WINDOWS folder; under Windows Mill

Chapter 4 Separate PC components clean-up 334.1.7 Find Files List Find files list clean-up deletes the list that indicates your file search activi

34 Acronis Privacy Expert Suite Recently used documents list in the Start menu 4.1.9 Windows Run List Windows Run List clean-up deletes the list of

Chapter 4 Separate PC components clean-up 35 Windows Open (Save, Save As...) window All information about access to application files (Word, Excel,

36 Acronis Privacy Expert Suiteto a previously visited page, your browser will take the majority of its contents from the cache to show on-screen in

Chapter 4 Separate PC components clean-up 37site. When a user revisits the site, he/she may be greeted by name and, perhaps some setting selected la

38 Acronis Privacy Expert Suite «Protected Cookies» setting 4.2.3 Downloaded components In this guide, downloaded components refers to ActiveX eleme

Chapter 4 Separate PC components clean-up 391. select Downloaded components clean-up in the settings editor. 2. select «Files» and click the Show

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40 Acronis Privacy Expert SuiteSettings\History\History.IE5 (Windows XP). Here you can find system files and folders, whose contents are represented

Chapter 4 Separate PC components clean-up 41 Typed URLs list You can securely clean up the typed URLs list using the Typed URLs component found in t

42 Acronis Privacy Expert SuiteIn the Address settings (Show URLs window) you can see the list of Web sites that require user authorization. If you

Chapter 4 Separate PC components clean-up 43In the settings of this component, you can see the list of fields to be cleaned up. If you want to keep

44 Acronis Privacy Expert SuitePC and Internet settings without permission, etc. These applications are called spyware. 4.3.1 Spyware threats This c

Chapter 4 Separate PC components clean-up 45In the Browser pages hijacking settings you can: • provide browser(s) to restore preset pages. It suppo

46 Chapter 5. Acronis Privacy Expert Pop-up Blocker 5.1 What are pop-ups? While browsing some Web sites you might have unwanted pop-up windows o

Chapter 547 Acronis Privacy Expert Pop-up Blocker 5.3.1 Acronis Privacy Expert Pop-up Blocker general settings In the general settings section, you

48 Chapter 6. Acronis Drive Cleanser 6.1 Acronis Drive Cleanser capabilities Many operating systems do not provide users with enough data destru

Chapter 6 Acronis Drive Cleanser 49You can select several partitions simultaneously located on different hard disks or on several disks. Click Next

5 4.1.1 Recycle Bin ... 29 4.1

50 Acronis Privacy Expert SuiteAfter you select an method, Acronis Drive Cleanser will perform all actions necessary to destroy contents of the sele

Chapter 6 Acronis Drive Cleanser 51 The selection of custom method creation Click the Next button to continue. The window with the script for wiping

52 Acronis Privacy Expert Suite6.4.2 Method definition: template The Method definition window shows you a template of the future method; the list c

Chapter 6 Acronis Drive Cleanser 53 The selection of the first pass for pattern definition Click the Next button to continue. You will see the windo

54 Acronis Privacy Expert Suite The input of a random 1-byte value as the pattern for writing Click the Next button to continue. You will be taken t

Chapter 6 Acronis Drive Cleanser 55 The input of value complementary to the one written during the previous pass As during the second pass of the U.

56 Acronis Privacy Expert Suite The saving custom method window In order do save your method, you need to give it a filename and define the path in

Chapter 6 Acronis Drive Cleanser 57As all passes of your method are defined and the method is saved to file, clicking the Next button will let you s

58 Acronis Privacy Expert SuiteThis diskette or CD will allow you to easily and permanently destroy data on your PC that doesn’t have Acronis Privac

59 Appendix A. Hard Disk Wiping methods Information removed from a hard disk drive by non-secure means (for example, by simple Windows delete) can

6 Introduction What is Acronis Privacy Expert Suite? It is an integrated software suite that provides confidentiality and protects standalone PCs

60 Acronis Privacy Expert SuiteA.2 Information wiping methods used by Acronis The table below briefly describes information wiping methods used by

7Introduction Standards of guaranteed destruction of confidential information The software offers the guaranteed destruction of confidential inform

8 Acronis Privacy Expert SuiteWhat Acronis Privacy Expert Suite enables you to clean up The suite enables you to remove the evidence of your work in

9Introduction If you need to perform a comprehensive system clean-up, see the section 3.2 «System clean-up» If you need to remove Web activity trace