Evidence Cleaner

This built-in bonus utility Evidence Cleaner completely remove all traces of your Internet activity and protect sensitive information while improving your computer's performance. When you are working on your computer performing the day to day activity like surfing the Internet, paying your bills online and logging into the websites with passwords, your computer is recording most of the steps you take.The user can use this utility to scan and clean the traces as follows:

  • Internet Explorer
  • Windows software
  • Windows system
  • Other internet-related softwares (e.g. Firefox,Netscape,Kazaa, etc.)

1. make selections on which items you want to eliminate at the main screen while the Scan tab is active; be sure to close all the specific softwares (otherwise, any cleaning operation of this kind could not proceed) and then click the Scan Now button.

2. review the scanning results at the active Result tab, select the files you want to be cleaned or add to the excluding list located at the Exclude tab where all the excluded items are listed within (similar to the way how Ignore list works) and you can add, modifty or remove any section if wanted by right clicking on the items you want to be excluded now and to be ignored at the next-time scanning, and then click the Clean button to begin the cleaning operation.

3. the new advanced function called File Shred has been introduced in this new version 4, which can permanently remove the specific files from your drives;with Advanced tab active, add file(s) or folder(s) to feed the shred engine, select the specific shred level,and then click the Shred button to proceed. BE CAUTIONOUS to select files since the operation is irreversible!

To start a regular evidence cleanning session:

  1. Click the Scan & Clean button at the main window, and then click the Evidence Cleaner button.
  2. Check the options listed at the body frame if needed or keep all the default settings. 
  3. Click the Scan Now button.
  4. Review the detected items,and click the Clean button or if needed, right click on certain items and then select Exclude to put them into the Exclude tab, or click the Scan tab to restart the scanning.
  5. Click the Finish button to end this cleanning session.      

To erase files completely by File Shred:

  1. Click the Scan & Clean button at the main window, and then click the Evidence Cleaner button.
  2. Click the Advanced tab.
  3. Click the Add button and then select  Add Files to include the files you want to be completely erased.
  4. Select one Shred level at the Shred Level section.
  5. Click the Shred button.

To erase files in recycle bin completely by File Shred:

  1. Click the Scan & Clean button at the main window, and then click the Evidence Cleaner button.
  2. Click the Advanced tab.
  3. Click the Add button and then select Add All Recycle File to include the files you want to be completely erased.
  4. Select one Shred level at the Shred Level section (the more overwrite passes, the more secure). .
  5. Click the Shred button.

To erase one file folder completely by File Shred:

  1. Click the Scan & Clean button at the main window, and then click the Evidence Cleaner button.
  2. Click the Advanced tab.
  3. Click the Add Folder button to include the folder you want to be completely erased.
  4. Select one Shred level at the Shred Level section (the more overwrite passes, the more secure).
  5. Click the Shred button.

* Further Readings on File Shred

When you empty the Recycle Bin, files and folders that are in the trash are still not deleted. They're simply marked by the system for deletion at a future date . Let's why File Shred comes in handy. By increasing the overwrite passes , this utility can offer much more secure for your files which you want to permanently get rid of and hardly be recovered by any data recovery softwares or anything of this kind.   

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