Privacy Shredder

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Let's check out another popular shredder: the Privacy Shredder. This utility just like others of its kind clears up the traces of your Internet and computer activities. It can clean your browser's cache, cookies, and history, delete your temporary files, and empty the Recycle Bin. It can also erase the traces of popular applications such as Microsoft Office, Media Player, and WinZip.

It's an acceptable choice for all level users, since it's quite easy to use. Besides cleaning the suggested material that you can see on the screenshot above, the users can destroy any file by browsing the system and picking the required file.

Basically, this cleanup utility offers enough features and functionality to hold its own against the competition. Although it's not packed with plenty of features that some other programs of this kind are, it can obliterate documents using several secure algorithms that adhere to government standards.

However the users feedback is not positive at all. They say that the support team ignores the users demand for help. That's certainly a bad thing, because usually the publisher's make sure the customers are satisfied with their product.

Even though the Privacy Shredder is able to remove the data of many programs, it doesn't delete the temporary files that are stored in the folder of the actual file you are working with (for instance, such as the Winword creates). Also, the ability to wipe free space on your hard disk would be nice too. But the Privacy Shredder lacks that feature.

Besides that, the Privacy Shredder makes a simple and powerful solution for any user wishing to keep his or her PC activities private. It is purchasable at www.jklnsoft.com for about $30.

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