Privacy Shield 3.0.5

• Quick specs
• Price: Free to try (15-day trial); $29.95 to buy
• Operating system: Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
• Date added: July 15, 2005
• Total Downloads: 90,249
• Downloads last week: 48
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• CNET editors' rating: 4.0 stars
• Average user rating: 2.5 stars out of 48 votes
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CNET editors' review

Reviewed by: CNET Staff

Although we have a couple of minor quibbles about this privacy-protection application, it's by and large a very solid pick. Privacy Shield's tabbed interface is simple to navigate, letting you check or uncheck boxes depending on what areas of your system you want to clean. Similar to most apps in this class, this one can wipe away Web-surfing traces from Internet Explorer. And while it also supports Netscape and AOL, it can't clean up other browsers such as Opera and Firefox. Besides the ability to wipe tracks from common Windows system areas, Privacy Shield supports nearly 40 third-party programs, including popular toolbars, IM apps, media players, and file-sharing clients. You can schedule cleaning sessions and shred files or folders, though the latter feature doesn't let you eradicate data using government-sanctioned algorithms. We'd also wish for a longer trial period than 15 days. But in the final analysis, this utility offers enough protection for the vast majority of everyday users.

Publisher's description

From Privacy-Shield :

Privacy Shield erases data by using government-level removal techniques. It completely cleans your computer of any Internet/Windows habits you want to guarantee won't get discovered. In seconds it will clear your browser history, browser cache, system cookies, typed URL list, index.dat file, temp files, recent documents, and e-mail histories. It also will delete the full history of ACDSee, Acrobat Reader, AOL Messenger, CuteFTP, Google toolbar, ICQ, Kazaa, MSN Messenger, the MSN toolbar, Office2003, OfficeXP, PowerDVD, RealPlayer, Windows Media Player, WinRAR, WinZip, Yahoo Messenger, and Yahoo toolbar. You even can set it to delete any files or folders you want to completely disappear.

Version 3.0.5 fixed a bug when erasing MSN toolbar.

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