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- Page 1 Acronis Privacy Expert Suite 7.0 User’s Guide www.acronis.com...
- Page 2 Copyright © SWsoft, 2000-2003. All rights reserved. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. OS/2 is a registered trademark of IBM Corporation. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group. Windows and MS-DOS are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. All other trademarks and copyrights referred to are the property of their respective owners.
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Page 3: End-User License Agreement
MAY CHOOSE NOT TO ACCEPT BY SELECTING "I decline..." AND NOT INSTALLING THE SOFTWARE. The Acronis Privacy Expert Suite (the Software) is Copyright © SWsoft, 2000-2003. All rights are reserved. The ORIGINAL PURCHASER is granted a LICENSE to use the software only, subject to the following restrictions and limitations. -
Page 4: Table Of Contents
Standards of guaranteed destruction of confidential information............7 What's new in Acronis Privacy Expert Suite 7.0? .................7 What Acronis Privacy Expert Suite enables you to clean up ..............8 On the contents of the guide, or how to find the necessary information ..........8 System requirements ...........................9... - Page 5 Saving a custom method to file ..................55 6.4.4 Loading an method from a file .................... 57 Creating a bootable diskette or CD with Acronis Drive Cleanser ......57 APPENDIX A. HARD DISK WIPING METHODS ................ 59 Information wiping methods functioning principles........... 59...
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Page 6: Introduction
Acronis Privacy Expert Suite provides a solution to all of these problems. It assures complete confidentiality of your PC and Internet actions and prevents... -
Page 7: Standards Of Guaranteed Destruction Of Confidential Information
Detailed information on data destruction standards is given in Appendix A «Hard Disk Wiping methods» to the current guide. What's new in Acronis Privacy Expert Suite 7.0? Acronis Privacy Expert Suite has lots of new features that make it an integrated software suite. They include: •... -
Page 8: What Acronis Privacy Expert Suite Enables You To Clean Up
Windows paging/swap file Acronis Privacy Expert Suite permanently removes evidence of user PC activity. To clean up a PC, Acronis Privacy Expert Suite strict methods for guaranteed confidential data destruction that meet and/or exceed most national/state standards (see Appendix A «Hard Disk Wiping methods»... -
Page 9: System Requirements
Software use conditions The conditions for use of Acronis Privacy Expert Suite are listed in the supplied «License Agreement». To be able to prove that you legally purchased and use the suite, you received a registration card along with the package. Each registration card has a unique number. - Page 10 You will also need to provide the registration number of your Acronis Privacy Expert Suite supplied with this package.
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Page 11: Chapter 1. Installing Acronis Privacy Expert Suite
During the installation, you will be prompted to create a bootable diskette or CD with Acronis Privacy Expert Suite. Using this disk you will be able to easily and securely destroy information on your PC that doesn’t have Acronis Privacy Expert Suite installed. -
Page 12: Chapter 2. Working With Acronis Privacy Expert Suite
(GUI) elements. We will not describe details here, but instead pay general attention to setting and executing clean-up variants. The main window Acronis Privacy Expert Suite is controlled from the main window. It is shown on the screen after selecting Acronis Privacy Expert Suite from Privacy Expert Suite the Programs menu. -
Page 13: Logical Software Organization: Sections
Acronis Privacy Expert Suite is installed. They were created so the immediate work majority of users could take advantage of them without understanding all the advanced settings, and contain everything necessary for most users. Any of these variants can be executed by a click of the mouse! 2.3.2... -
Page 14: Additional Cleanup Tools
Separate components clean-up takes less time than a complex clean-up of the entire Windows area. All PC clean-up variants, as well as separate components clean-up, are executed manually or by schedule and are set universally (see the section 2.4 Acronis Privacy Expert Suite global settings) 2.3.3... -
Page 15: Scheduled Tasks
The scheduled clean-up (see the section 2.13 Executing scheduled PC clean-up) might lead to errors if data to be deleted is used by other programs. You can set up Acronis Privacy Expert Suite for such situations by selecting from the following variants: •... -
Page 16: Folders/Files Clean-Up Through The Context Menu
Using File Shredder Folders/files clean-up through the context menu Acronis Privacy Expert Suite provides an easy way to quickly delete files and clean up folders through the Windows Explorer context menu. This requires you • select the necessary files or folder with the mouse or the Tab button •... -
Page 17: Clean-Up Settings
Clean-up settings By changing clean-up settings, you can set Acronis Privacy Expert Suite for your personal needs. For example, you can select an method of guaranteed data destruction that suits your needs by speed and reliability; enter the type of temporary files to clean;... -
Page 18: Separate Components Clean-Up Settings
Having selected a specific component to clean from the editor, you open the list of its clean-up settings. Each component to clean has in Acronis Privacy Expert Suite several settings (from 1 to 3 depending on a component). Below are settings common for a number of components. Specific settings of separate components are described in Chapter 4 «Separate PC components clean-up». -
Page 19: System Component Clean-Up Settings
– the selection of data destruction methods. Selecting a data destruction method You will see all data destruction methods available in Acronis Privacy Expert Suite by clicking your mouse on the drop-down list in the right part of the editor. - Page 20 You can enter any number of filenames or their parts like separated by a semicolon. The «Files» setting has five system components to clean: Recycle Bin, Temporary Files, Custom Folders/Files, Find Files List and Recently Used Documents List. «Files» setting If you need to: Acronis Privacy Expert Suite...
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Page 21: 2.10.3 «Computers» Setting
As a result, all computer search strings will be deleted from the registry. Upon entering the «Computers» setting value, you can browse the search strings in the registry selected by Acronis Privacy Expert Suite. To do this, click Show Computers. You will see the window with full and partial computer names searched for in the network. -
Page 22: Clean-Up Settings Of Components Related To Working On The Internet
«Internet Browsers» setting Netscape Navigator and Mozilla support personal profiles. Without additional settings, Acronis Privacy Expert Suite cleans either the «default profile» (if it is the only one), or the profile of the currently logged on user. If you need to clean up only one browser: 1. -
Page 23: Spyware Clean-Up Preferences
2.11.2 «Address» setting). 2.13 Executing scheduled PC clean-up Each PC clean-up variant of Acronis Privacy Expert Suite can be executed either manually or automatically as scheduled. Having set PC clean-up as a daily procedure, to be performed, for example, at the end of a workday before powering the PC off, you can be sure that all evidence of your PC and Internet activity will be reliably removed each day. -
Page 24: 2.13.1 Invoking The Scheduler
Acronis Privacy Expert Suite features a built-in scheduler. 2.13.1 Invoking the scheduler Having mouse-clicked a clean-up variant in the right part of the main window, and selected Schedule in the sidebar Clean-up list, you invoke the scheduler. You can also do this by selecting a clean-up variant and Clean-up Schedule from the main menu. -
Page 25: Paging File
Paging file cleaner Wizard After swap file clean-up under Windows 95/98/Me, Acronis Privacy Expert Suite offers to reboot your PC. The swap file clean-up is performed when the system shuts down. This file will be wiped after any reboot under Windows NT/2000/XP. -
Page 26: Using The Log
PC or component clean-up variant. 2.16 Using the Log The Log keeps track of all actions performed by Acronis Privacy Expert Suite. It can provide you with complete actions history and reasons for any problems that have taken place. -
Page 27: Chapter 3. Complex Pc Clean-Up
PC. Vice versa, if you need to clean up only a specific Windows component, for example, last visited Internet pages, you should use one of the Acronis Privacy Expert Suite sections described below (see Chapter 4 «Separate PC components clean-up»). -
Page 28: System Clean-Up
System clean-up can be executed by mouse-clicking the clean-up variant in the right part of the main window (for other execution methods see the sections 2.5, 2.13). For detailed descriptions of what Acronis Privacy Expert Suite performs in specific cases, see Chapter 4 «Separate PC components clean-up». Internet clean-up If you need to wipe evidence of your Internet activity, use Internet clean-up. -
Page 29: Chapter 4. Separate Pc Components Clean-Up
(see the section 2.7) The Windows Recycle Bin, represented by an icon on the desktop and as a folder in Explorer, is actually a number of system folders located on your logical PC disk. Acronis Privacy Expert Suite completely cleans every system folder. -
Page 30: Temporary Files
Please note that the above list is far from complete. Besides temporary files clean-up Acronis Privacy Expert Suite offers to clean your user folders and files (described further), deleting all temporary files from folders on any connected disks according to the provided «Files» value. -
Page 31: Custom Folders/Files
To delete user files, the suite enables you to select a data destruction method, specify «Files» setting value and the user folder list to clean. To select a list of folders and files to clean with Acronis Privacy Expert Suite: 1. -
Page 32: Find Computers List
– last visited pages lists, files or computers search lists, etc. – are stored not only in the registry, but also in its backup copy. If you clean up the user data stored in the registry with Acronis Privacy Expert Suite and re-boot the PC, Windows will automatically create a backup copy without traces of your PC activity. -
Page 33: Find Files List
4.1.7 Find Files List Find files list clean-up deletes the list that indicates your file search activity on computer disks from the Windows registry. A file string may contain a full filename, including its path, or just a partial name. Find files strings stored in the registry Find files strings stored in the registry... -
Page 34: Windows Run List
Clicking OK, you run the program (application), open file or connect to the selected site. Windows keeps a history of your actions. You can see this by opening the Open list. Acronis Privacy Expert Suite completely wipes it, deleting names of files and folders accessed by the user. -
Page 35: Internet Components
PC activity, the opened/saved files history must be cleaned whether a file or folder was deleted or not. Performing the PC clean-up, Acronis Privacy Expert Suite will destroy the opened/saved file history according to the provided «Files» value. -
Page 36: Cookies
Moreover, keeping a large Internet cache can degrade your browser’s overall performance. Acronis Privacy Expert Suite cleans the Internet cache while maintaining the confidentiality of your PC activities and speeding up pages of visited sites (reducing time to find necessary files in cache). - Page 37 Acronis Privacy Expert Suite enables you to delete unnecessary cookies. You can keep the cookies you need, as the Acronis Privacy Expert Suite can choose what cookies to delete and which to save. Which cookies are unnecessary and what is their threat? In the aggregate, cookies can provide full traces of where and how you surfed the Internet.
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Page 38: Downloaded Components
Downloaded ActiveX components clean-up enables you to delete installed elements that may have doubtful use. If you have accidentally downloaded an ActiveX element from a dubious site, Acronis Privacy Expert Suite will help you to delete it from your hard disk drive. -
Page 39: Last Visited
2. select «Files» and click the Show Files button; 3. uncheck boxes near the names of components you want to keep on your PC. When cleaning your PC, Acronis Privacy Expert Suite destroy all downloaded components except protected ones. «Protected components» setting 4.2.4... -
Page 40: Typed Urls
Web site folders and visited pages addresses in Internet Explorer History Netscape Navigator (Mozilla) also keeps track of similar lists, but keeps them in its own folders. Acronis Privacy Expert Suite cleans up all visited Web sites lists either entered manually, or by selecting links with mouse. 4.2.5 Typed URLs Internet browsers usually keep track of Web sites, whose URLs were typed in. -
Page 41: Passwords
However, if other people use the same PC, they can easily gain access to your password-protected information and that is often confidential. You can prevent this using the Passwords clean-up component of Acronis Privacy Expert Suite. Chapter 4 Separate PC components clean-up... -
Page 42: Forms Autocomplete Clean-Up
Forms autocomplete clean-up settings Using Forms autocomplete clean-up you can securely prevent other people from gaining access to this information. By default, Forms autocomplete cleans up all autocomplete fields stored by your Internet browser for future use. Acronis Privacy Expert Suite... -
Page 43: E-Mail Messages
In the settings of this component, you can see the list of fields to be cleaned If you want to keep some of the fields, uncheck the corresponding boxes. 4.2.8 E-mail messages This clean-up component allows you to permanently delete all or selected e-mail in the selected folders of MS Outlook or Outlook Express. -
Page 44: Spyware Threats
Some applications can secretly change these pages, and in most cases, users can't restore the previous settings themselves, as all changes are made to Windows registry. Browser pages hijacking clean-up easily solves this problem by remembering preset Web pages to restore in case they are changed. Acronis Privacy Expert Suite... -
Page 45: Ie Trusted Sites
In the Browser pages hijacking settings you can: • provide browser(s) to restore preset pages. It supports and automatically locates the following browsers: MS Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator and Mozilla • provide the type of preset pages to restore in case they are secretly changed. -
Page 46: Chapter 5. Acronis Privacy Expert Pop-Up Blocker
Pop-up Blocker settings You can invoke the Pop-up Blocker settings window in the following ways: • By selecting Pop-up Blocker in Settings on the sidebar of the Acronis Privacy Expert Suite main window • By selecting a similar item in the main menu •... -
Page 47: Acronis Privacy Expert Pop-Up Blocker General Settings
5.3.5 Black URLs If necessary, you can use Acronis Pop-up Blocker to block a Web site by adding its address to the Black (rejected) list. In this case, you will see "Acronis Privacy Expert Pop-up Blocker: Black URL link – navigation stopped" message in the browser when trying to access this Web site. -
Page 48: Chapter 6. Acronis Drive Cleanser
• create and execute custom user methods of hard disk clean-up. Acronis Drive Cleanser is based on a wizard that scripts all hard disk operations, so no data destruction is performed until you execute the complete script. At any stage, you can return to the previous stages to select other disks or partitions or data destruction methods. -
Page 49: Using Preset Data Destruction Methods
Using preset data destruction methods Acronis Drive Cleanser utilizes a number of the most popular data destruction methods that are described in detail in Appendix «Information wiping methods used by » of this manual. -
Page 50: Creating Custom Methods Of Data Destruction
DiskViewer window Creating custom methods of data destruction Acronis Drive Cleanser gives you an opportunity to create your own methods for wiping hard disks. Although the software includes methods of all classes, you may choose your own methods. - Page 51 Russian standard) to up to 35 passes (Peter Gutmann’s method). You may enter any value into the spinner field of the wizard window with the keyboard or mouse. For our example, enter 4 into this field. Click the Next button to continue. Chapter 6 Acronis Drive Cleanser...
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Page 52: Method Definition: Template
The Method definition window offers you the template for the method only. You should define exactly what the software should write to disk to destroy the confidential data according to your method. To do this, click your mouse on the line representing pass #1. Acronis Privacy Expert Suite... - Page 53 The U.S. standard provides the writing of random values to each byte of each disk sector during the first pass, so set the switch to Write a random value position and enter 1 into field. Chapter 6 Acronis Drive Cleanser...
- Page 54 To define the next pass, select the second line of the list and click the Next button. You will see the already-familiar window, but this time there will be more switch positions available: two additional positions will be available for selection: • Previous step complementary value • Verify. Acronis Privacy Expert Suite...
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Page 55: Saving A Custom Method To File
Saving a custom method to file In the next Saving custom method window, you will be able to save the method you have created. This will be useful if you are going to use it again. Chapter 6 Acronis Drive Cleanser... - Page 56 The method filename and description window Each custom method is stored in a separate file with its own name. If you try to write a new method to an already existing file, the existing file’s contents will be erased. Acronis Privacy Expert Suite...
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Page 57: Loading An Method From A File
If you created and saved your method for data destruction while working with Acronis Privacy Expert Suite software, you can use it in the following way: In the Select Method window, choose Load from file… from the drop-down list and select the file with custom data destruction method parameters. - Page 58 This diskette or CD will allow you to easily and permanently destroy data on your PC that doesn’t have Acronis Privacy Expert Suite installed. To create a bootable diskette, select Bootable Media Builder on sidebar and follow the wizard instructions.
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Page 59: Appendix A. Hard Disk Wiping Methods
Appendix A. Hard Disk Wiping methods Information removed from a hard disk drive by non-secure means (for example, by simple Windows delete) can easily be recovered. Utilizing specialized equipment, it is possible to recover even repeatedly overwritten information. Therefore, guaranteed data wiping is more important now than ever before. The guaranteed wiping of information from magnetic media (e.g. -
Page 60: Information Wiping Methods Used By Acronis
Information wiping methods used by Acronis The table below briefly describes information wiping methods used by Acronis. Each description features the number of hard disk sector passes along with the number(s) written to each sector byte. The description of built-in information wiping methods...
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