ACRONIS PRIVACYEXPERT 2003 User Manual page 17

If you need to ensure:
1. MAXIMUM SECURITY of PC activity evidence, select Peter Gutmann's
algorithm (35 data destruction cycles), but please keep in mind that it is
quite slow;
2. mid-level security at an average speed of clean-up, select VSITR or Bruce
Schneier's algorithm (7 data destruction cycles);
3. fast PC clean-up without security in mind, select any of the 1-3-pass
algorithms (see A.2 «Algorithms Used by Acronis PrivacyExpert »).
«Files» setting
The «Files» setting provides temporary file names to clean with Acronis
PrivacyExpert (from Windows Recycle Bin and from system and user folders)
and can be used with a search string.
Under the Windows operating system, a search string can represent a full or
partial file name. A search string may contain any alphanumeric symbols,
including comma, and
*
• – to delete all files from the Recycle Bin – with any file names
*.*
and extensions;
• – to delete files with specific extension – a Microsoft
*.doc
document file in this case;
• – to delete all files with any extensions, and names
read*.*
beginning with «read»;
• – to delete all files having 5-letter names and any
read?.*
extensions, names beginning with «read», the fifth letter is random.
The last search string, for example, will result in removal of
read1.txt, ready.doc files, but readyness.txt will remain with its
longer name (excluding the extension).
You can enter several different search strings separated by semicolon, for
example:
*.bak; *.tmp; *.~~~;
. . . and so on. All files with names corresponding to at least one of the
search strings will be deleted.
Attention! The length of a search string with full or partial file names is almost
infinite! You can enter any number of filenames or their parts like
separated by semicolon.
symbols, and can have values similar to the following :
?
*.tmp, read?.*
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