PC Purify

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The PC Purify is a utility kit that's similar to the Super Utilities. It offers a wide range of utilities which allow users to clean their system, wipe browsers cache and cookies, manipulate with all kinds of plug-ins. Also it offers variable settings that user can customize.

It offers a wide range of utilities which allow users to clean their system, wipe browsers cache and cookies, manipulate with all kinds of plug-ins.

To use the program fully, the user has to be really advanced. Incompetent working with registry for instance can damage the system. Meanwhile let's check out PC Purify's shredding feature.

Nice feature of PC Purify is the Auto Quick Clean. You can easily press one button and all extraneous data is erased. But I am not sure whenever it erases all sensitive data like temporary files that are created by MS Office, for instance, or not.

But I am not sure whenever it erases all sensitive data like temporary files that are created by MS Office, for instance, or not.

The File Shredder is one of the utilities of this pack. It's not in the spotlight of the program, I'd say. It works like most of the Shredders: User is supposed to pick a file and program will destroy it. It has 4 methods of wiping as you can see on the screenshot. The disadvantage of such shredder is mentioned before: user can delete the actual file but still he might miss the temporary file that contains data about the document. The program is not able to search and then ask which files should be deleted and which are not.

The disadvantage of such shredder is mentioned before: user can delete the actual file but still he might miss the temporary file that contains data about the document. The program is not able to search and then ask which files should be deleted and which are not.

The developer of this software ensures that the software is fully configurable. But I couldn't find any proof of that. Besides, Secure Tactics, the developer of the software doesn't let users to get a trial version. I think it's too bad because most of the analogous software is allowed to be downloaded in order to be tried out by user. I can't think of any other reasons of not allowing the trial-version download than that the developer wants to cover some information about the program pack. For sure, there's a lot of info placed on Secure Tactics web-site about the program, but still I would feel like I am getting a pig in a poke.

The software is available at www.securetactics.com for $59.95.

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