Working on your computer leaves a lot of traces behind. Almost any software product you use records everything you do.
For example, your Internet browser (whether you use Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, etc.) keeps track of every website you have visited, and it also saves all visited web pages, pictures and movies to your computer for quick access later. When you chat with someone (either using Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger, and so on), all your chat history is recorded on your computer. A copy of every document, picture or movie you open is also saved in temporary directories and sometimes remains there for a long time.
Even if you are an expert and know where to look for this information and you go to manually delete it, you need to know that the normal delete function does not truly erase data. The data sits there until it gets overwritten by another file (which in some cases doesn’t happen for a while).
So programs or people who gain access to your computer do in fact have the capabilities to recover what you thought was long gone. This can result in very unpleasant and life destroying situations: your identity can be stolen, because sensitive credit card information or other personal stuff may be easily recovered; you can lose your job because of the secret project you were working on; you lose your wife/husband because of the love e-mails you didn't securely erase. And the examples can continue.
We have found East-Tec Eraser 2009 as one excellent piece of software that can truly erase all traces of your actitivity on the computer. We were really surprised by the effectiveness of East-Tec Eraser 2009. The product is easy to install and once installed you can get started in almost no time. You just tell him what to do and it will do it for you automatically.
East-Tec Eraser 2009 offers a privacy guard which erases sensitive data from your Windows and Internet activity, it lets you completely eliminate your e-mail (it supports many email clients like Outlook, Eudora, Pegasus, Incredimail and more). It also has a feature to clean your computer of any old stuff that you 'deleted' in the past and that you thought it was deleted. You can also delete entire disk drives or your USB stick or your rewritable CDs in a manner that no one can recover the information (by using the Media Wiper feature).
Also, if you are in a hurry and forget to run East-Tec Eraser 2009, you can set up scheduling tasks to run features from Eraser at specified times.
One very nice feature is the ability to set up a panic button that you press in case you need to quickly hide your tracks. When pressed, it will close all your applications and start erasing your tracks in background.
East-Tec Eraser 2009 is one of the best wiping utilities we have seen, it is fast and it is very efficient in what it does. The product supports a lot of applications, so you can be sure that no matter what applications you use on your computer, your activity traces are always erased. The company is always updating its application database, and we received a lot of updated and new sensitive areas with each version. We are recommending you East-Tec Eraser and is getting a maximum of 5/5 points in our evaluation.