Scrub Sensitive Data From Your PC With Free PrivaZer - morrisonvand1982

At a Glance

Expert's Military rating

Pros

Easygoing to use
Fast
Thorough

Cons

Doesn't let you take what to clean

Our Finding of fact

Remove all traces of your activities from your PC with PrivaZer.

Thither are many files along your electronic computer that contain hints as to where you've been surfing, what you've been writing, viewing, etc. It's a astonishing job to beget rid of all of it by hand. Indeed, fifty-fifty experient users usually opt to erase the ossified drive and reinstall their operating system; it's faster than doing it manually.

Privazer is another, and far handier, option. From what I saw in my hands-on, it removes every trace of your activities. Aside from the usual stuff such as web browser histories and cookies, the Windows registry and MRUs (Most Recently Used lists), Privazer scours your Winchester drive's free space and MFT or FAT filing system, Index number.dat files, messaging data, Windows and USB histories, charge indexing, memory board, Hiberfil.sys and Pagefile.sys, jumplists, prefetch data, the USN Journal (a history of Windows changes), and the histories of a heap of popular computer software. Thither may be something that PrivaZer doesn't sanitize, but if soh, I didn't find it.

My only extremely minor bid for PrivaZer is the power to pick and choose what to scrub. As of at once, you either scrub your computer or you don't. Seeing as the basic mind is to remove totally traces of your usage, that's probably unfair, but IT does limit the programme's use for selective cleaning.

PrivaZer is a same handy public-service corporation and can besides be melt down as a outboard application without installation. Just be sure you really want to trench all that stuff—it's very thorough. For more selective cleanup, essay Piriform's CCleaner.

—Jon L. Jacobi

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