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- Price: Free to try (Removal disabled); $29.95 to buy (Buy it now)
- Operating system: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/NT
- Date added: July 31, 2006
- Total Downloads: 1,210
- Downloads last week: 5
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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
XP Privacy Pro gives you all the tools you need to rid your computer of unwanted files, but a poor design and too-strict trial limitation left us with a bad impression.
Right away, we were overwhelmed by the cluttered interface. You've got buttons across the top and down the left side of the window. After a second glance, we realized that both were the same button in two locations. Really, you just need to focus on the tree menu that lets you pick and choose what you want to clean. The program lets you clean your browser history, cache, and even system-restore points. We first chose to clean our Web-browser settings. We clicked the sweep button and the program quickly displayed the number of files found. We opted to destroy the traces, but alas, a restriction prevents you from removing any found files. The program lets you choose from three sweep levels, but since we couldn't remove anything, we really can't tell you if there's a difference between the three levels.
The unappealing user interface and trial restriction are two strikes too many for us. Keep looking for a privacy tool that offers a fully functional trial, or at least one that lets you remove a few items for testing purposes.
Publisher's description
From ddxSoftware :XP Privacy Pro provides support for Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Opera and Netscape, as well as a complete file and disk shredder to shred your sensitive data files. Did you know that when you clear your cache in your PC all of that information is still easily visible to anyone? Windows tracks every action you make on your computer and it can be easily recovered in a few moments by just about anyone with even a small amount of computer skills. In this day and age, your privacy is extremely important. With identity theft, spyware, viruses, and abusive law enforcement, you can never be too careful with your personal and confidential data files. XP Privacy Pro will destroy all traces of your computer usage from Web-browser traces, all of the stored data in Windows, and other third party applications.
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Version: XP Privacy Pro 2.0.2
"This privacy cleaner makes a good point...."
Pros: I have tried just about every "privacy cleaners" out on the market and this one makes one key point that seems to be missing in ALL other privacy cleaners.
all privacy cleaners remove all of the "private" information you don't want someone to recover but if you think about it, your information is still easily recovered from your System Restore Points. Privacy Pro let's you pick and choose which restore points you want to remove. In all honesty i've never even seen another program, much less a privacy cleaner, that let's you remove individual (or all) restore points.
It makes perfect sense though, if you want to protect yourself from an invasion of privacy, your restore points need to be cleared out or all of your data can still be easily recovered.
Good thinking Privacy Pro. For this reason I gave it 5 stars. We will see if it catches on to other privacy cleaners that target XP and Vista operating systems.
Cons: it requires the .net framework which increases the final installation file. However, keeping in mind that Windows Vista ships with .NET preinstalled, i guess it's just a plan ahead for their product to be Vista compliant.
I had avoided .NET 2.0 but their installer seemlessly installed it and i didn't have any bad side-effects from it being installed. Microsoft has .NET 2.0 as an automatic update and most new PC's are shipped with this preinstalled anyways.
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