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- Price: Free to try (15-day trial, works with 1/4 of drive); $19.95 to buy
- Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista/Server 2008/7/NT
- Date added: July 21, 2009
- Total Downloads: 1,705
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 1 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
This privacy tool is supposed to offer you peace of mind by removing sensitive data from your PC before you junk or sell it. But after experiencing a few issues, and a strict trial restriction, we're not sure it's worth the hefty price tag.
East-Tec DisposeSecure 2008 Enterprise places two icons on your desktop--one for a bootable-media creator, and another for network sanitizing. We started with the bootable-media creator, which lets you easily create a backup of the program for use on other systems. We liked the wizard-like interface, but would have appreciated the ability to save to a USB device and not just to other types of removable media, like a DVD. We put the program to work and it seemed to lock up. It then returned a message stating that there weren't any system files. Even with the wizard and Help file to guide us, we weren't able to overcome this problem. The same wizard-like interface walked us through the process, but since we couldn't create a media device, we couldn't complete the sanitization process.
On top of the issues that we experienced, a skimpy 15-day trial only allows for sanitization of one quarter of your hard drive. We can't recommend a program that doesn't give you the full experience and seems to have issues with what it does allow you to test.
Publisher's description
From EAST Technologies :Don't give away sensitive information with the old computers that you or your company resells, donates or removes from operation. Deleting all files, formatting the hard disk or using FDISK is not enough to stop people to restore information using basic recovery programs.
East-Tec DisposeSecure removes all traces of data from the computer hard disk by overwriting and destroying beyond recovery every sector and bit of information. Data is removed according to U.S. Department of Defense standards or custom user security levels. East-Tec DisposeSecure can be operated either from a bootable media (floppy disk, CD, DVD) to sanitize any drive or partition, or through the network to sanitize a large number of computers, centralize sanitization logs on the server and more. Whether you want to prevent identity theft, protect your privacy or stop competitors from stealing your sensitive information, East-Tec DisposeSecure offers the solution. Version 4.1 includes improvements to make it work better under Windows Vista and new licensing options for home users, based on the number of sanitizations (uses).
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Version 4.1 includes improvements to make it work better under Windows Vista and new licensing options for home users, based on the number of sanitizations (uses).
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