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- Price: Free to try (30-day trial); $29.00 to buy
- Operating system: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/NT
- Date added: January 27, 2003
- Total Downloads: 70,774
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 12 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
This program lets the privacy minded easily cover their tracks, but the large feature set may overwhelm the less experienced. Tabbed screens organize the numerous features and options of this program. The primary function is the single-click Quick Clean, which deletes files and erases histories in key Windows folders and cleans up tracks generated by Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Opera, and AOL browsers. All actions can be easily automated with the included schedule function. Program plug-ins give users the ability to delete personal information stored in more than 180 third-party applications. You can easily create your own plug-ins for programs not listed. The file shredder lets you overwrite data a select number of times but doesn't support government-sanctioned algorithms. Windows and Internet Cleaner Pro covers the vast majority of privacy bases and seems best suited to more advanced paranoiacs.Publisher's description
From NeoImagic Computing :Protect your privacy by cleaning up your browser's cache, cookies, history, typed URLs, index.dat, autocomplete memory, and tracks of past Windows activity. Windows and Internet Cleaner Pro is a very useful program for cleaning up the history of your activities on a computer. Even though many of the tasks can be performed manually, Windows and Internet Cleaner can automate this process for you. The program is designed to protect your privacy by cleaning up unwanted history data and Internet tracks on your computer. It allows you to erase browser cache, cookies, history, visited URLs, typed URLs, autocomplete data, index.dat, temp folders, run history, search history, open/save history, and recent documents. The cookie-cleaning feature allows you to specify cookies to keep, so you don't erase your important login cookies. In addition, you can change the paths of several system folders (History, Favorites, etc.) and customize the IE title bar text. You also can have Windows and Internet Cleaner automatically clean your files when Windows is started or shutdown. Windows and Internet Cleaner implements the U.S. Department of Defense and NSA clearing and sanitizing standard, which gives you confidence that once deleted with Windows and Internet Cleaner, your file data is gone forever and can not be recovered. The application comes with an attractive, Windows XP-style interface and is easy to use.
Version 2.10.2 adds an erase Windows swap file, support for RealOne Player, MSN Messenger, a cleaning action hot key, and fixes some bugs.
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- Average user rating: 3.1 stars out of 12 votes
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2 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Windows and Internet Cleaner Pro 3.60
"It was as much use as a chocolate teapot"
Cons: Didnt work.
So It's competely useless!!!!
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4 out of 9 people found this review helpful
Version: Windows and Internet Cleaner Pro 3.60
"Was a good cleaner, Not now!"
Cons: I have been using this software for 6 months with no problem.The past few weeks its been playing up.Its not showing up in the system tray.I am getting non stop conflicts from my antispyware and firewall recently, saying its attempting to enter a trusted zone etc.Sometimes it loads on start sometimes it doesnt.I click on "select all"to clean, then when I reboot its back to as it was only a few of the clean up items are ticked. Basically I cant and dont trust this software any more.I have even tried a complete uninstall and re-install with the same results.It is now gone from my pc after 6 months.I am now back to the manual Ccleaner.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Windows and Internet Cleaner Pro 3.60
Pros: I tried different erasers.
Last one i tried AFTER aready use 2 other one,s.But W & I cleaner pro still erases 122MB! What !? Where that 122 MB come from??? i thought my pc is allready clean.I checked the list and see that this eraser cleanes the scrap whats left from the plugins asswel! Very good!!
If you are a littlebit paranoid than you can use the security option and overwrite the erased aria with different security options.Great !
You can try it for free, select all the plugins and run.
You will be supriced how many scrap there is still left on your pc for erasing.
This program will find it and delete it.
And if you want delete it forever by using the security option.
Cons: Nothing to complain.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Windows and Internet Cleaner Pro 3.60
Summary: The traces removed by it can be seen by any data recovery software, so it totally defeats the idea to use it.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Windows and Internet Cleaner Pro 3.60
Pros: I like the file shreder.
Cons: I use the product at work to keep sensitive data off my work computer, but no longer will I rely on this POS! This product use to work excellent on XP, but now I cannot get it to erase Internet Explorer tracks on Vista, and tech support SUCKS!! THIS IS THE WORSE TECH SUPPORT EVER!! I do not trust this program anymore, a complete waste of money. I tried to use the free space cleaner, but it took over 2 full days to complete on a 160 gig hardrive, and 2.6 GHz processor and 4 gigs of RAM. What a slow program. I wouldn't waste the money if I were you. The free program "Advanced Window Care" was able to do what this program was unable to do.
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