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- Price: Free to try (15-day trial); $49.95 to buy (Buy it now)
- Operating system: Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: January 10, 2005
- Total Downloads: 98,473
- Downloads last week: 219
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A newer version of East-Tec Eraser 2005 is available.
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- Average user rating: stars out of 38 votes
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Publisher's description
From EAST Technologies :Protect your data and privacy and remove all evidence of your computer and online activity with East-Tec Eraser 2005. Eraser goes beyond the U.S. Department of Defense standards for the permanent erasure of digital information and easily removes every trace of sensitive data from your computer, including Internet history, Web pages, pictures, unwanted cookies, chatroom conversations, and all traces of files, confidential documents, or e-mails deleted in the past. East-Tec Eraser 2005 offers full support for popular browsers (Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, America Online, MSN Explorer, Opera), for P2P applications (Kazaa, iMesh, Napster, Morpheus, Direct Connect, LimeWire) and for other popular programs, such as Windows Media Player, RealPlayer, Yahoo Messenger, and ICQ.
Version 6.0 comes with an improved built-in Scheduler, and a Panic option (Anti Boss key) that helps you hide what you are doing by just using a combination of keys.
What's new in this version:
- New built-in Scheduler, offers you more flexibility to schedule your most frequently used tasks in Eraser at specified moments (for example, when the computer is not used so intensively, or at times when the computer has been idle for a number of minutes, so it will not interfere with your work).
- Anti-Surprise (Anti-Boss or Panic) Key, helps you hide what you are doing by just using a combination of keys from your keyboard. This allows you to close all open windows and immediate... see all new features
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User reviews of East-Tec Eraser 2005 6.0
- Average user rating: 4.2 stars out of 38 votes
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7 out of 8 people found this review helpful
Version: East-Tec Eraser 2005 6.0
"WARINIG: DON'T USE THIS PROGRAM!!"
Pros: It spent more than 24 hours dong "something" while I was waiting.
Cons: The following happened:
(1) I "erased" some Word documents "beyond recovery", with the default "thorough" method.
(2) I let the program erase all deleted files on my 4 hard drives, spending more than a day.
(3) Win XP found "missing sectors" at startup, and spent some time "fixing" before starting.
(4) I found a new folder, called "C:\FOUND.000", in which I found JUST EXACTLY those files that I chose to erase beyond recovery, with same names, unchanged.
(5) THEN the nightmare began (which I'm desperately spending days now trying to recover): My man HD makes funny "scratching" noises all the time, spends LONG time starting up, AND MOST of my precious data is rendered UNREADABLE! (As a consultant developer this is a tragedy. I have 11 years of professoinal experience, and customers to develop software for.) --- Good luck!
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: East-Tec Eraser 2005 6.0
"Wait until it gets stabilized."
Summary: I have used the versions of Eraser product for 5 years. Let me share my experience in using this product;
1. Almost all new major releases of this product have had bugs.
For instance, the current major release, version 6 of this produc... read more >> -
0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: East-Tec Eraser 2005 6.0
"A nice and powerful traces cleaner"
Pros: I stumbled across a few programs of this kind, but I was amazed by the powerful set of features when I tried East-Tec Erasure program. Not only that it successfully erased all my internet traces (a feature that not many programs could successfully complete), but it also helped me gain more than 200 megs of disk space. I am also in the
medicine field and I need to erase some client data sheets periodically. The Privacy feature helped me define custom
directories to erase periodically. Combined with its internal scheduler, this operation has become a piece of cake for me to perform.
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: East-Tec Eraser 2005 6.0
Pros: Fellow C-Nets...This is the ultimate software in the privacy (wipe it out) category, as I have ever downloaded on this site. One powerful tool!!! Excellent sherrder, 12 different settings of wipe & destroy...and I do mean destroy!! This is the BEST I have tried.
Cons: However it is one of the most expensive in its class...I guess if you are in Gov't work or just super paranoid, you might justify the price...Otherwise I'm on the fence with this one.
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: East-Tec Eraser 2005 6.0
Summary: Before purchasing this product, I tried a number of competing downloads. East-Tec has bundled an impressive set of features and everything works. The program is simple to use and allows the user the ability to run in basic or advanced mode. The adva... read more >>
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