- 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 29, 2005
- Total Downloads: 90,249
- Downloads last week: 48
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: 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 or 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 3.0.6 fixes a bug when erasing PowerDVD history and updates the help file.
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User reviews of Privacy Shield 3.0.6
- Average user rating: 2.7 stars out of 48 votes
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20 out of 23 people found this review helpful
Version: Privacy Shield 3.0.6
"The worst program I have ever triled"
Pros: no pros at all
Cons: This is the worst program I have ever used in the past 5 years. I deleted all the data in my D drive. No support at all, no phone, no reply to email in 3 days, this company sucks!
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15 out of 16 people found this review helpful
Version: Privacy Shield 3.0.6
"i just can't explain how its bad, highly enough."
Pros: no pros
Cons: This app is junk.
user interface is very ugly and doesn't let you preview everything in one step. you have to jump from item to item to do that.
yet, it doesn't clean everything.
that's all.
if you changed your mind not to download this app then you could have a look at other ones in download.com
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17 out of 19 people found this review helpful
Version: Privacy Shield 3.0.6
Cons: poor user interface and difficult to understand. No support at all as I emailed them several times and no response even after 48 hours
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17 out of 19 people found this review helpful
Version: Privacy Shield 3.0.6
"It deletes many useful files"
Pros: I tried this one and it deletes all my word documents without any prompt.
Cons: I tried this one and it deletes all my word documents without any prompt. Luckly I have the backup on my CD otherwise I will become mad as the documents are extremely important for me.
Vey bad program and not safe to try.
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13 out of 14 people found this review helpful
Version: Privacy Shield 3.0.6
Cons: After using it, I can still find many sensitive data using the data recovery software. It's totally useless of this so called privacy shield
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