![]() ![]() Of course it all varies depending on the data destruction algorithm being applied. Erasing deleted data is a yet more time consuming routine. However, the actual removal takes a while even when the app works in the Normal mode: wiping the 33 GB free (unused) disk space on C drive was a 20-minute-long procedure. In regards to the program’s speediness, it’s generally great as far as the scanning goes. ![]() Moreover, East-Tec Eraser provides the option of setting the custom allocation of system resources: Low, Normal (default), High and Realtime – thus giving it at the user’s discretion to determine the system productivity impact. Even though the application does inform the user of the possible appearance of a ‘Low Disk Space’ warning during the ‘Erase Deleted Data’ task, we didn’t get one. The welcome dialog box that pops up right after the setup gives a brief preview of the key features.ĬPU usage was not significantly affected during the test – in fact, it never exceeded 85% on our lab machine which has pretty average hardware. That’s pretty amazing in terms of the speed and ease. It took us some 15 seconds to complete the install – actually, the download of the stub installer was even a little more time-consuming than that. There’s no reinventing the wheel here: the procedure implies downloading the 5.7 MB installer file and then clicking through the regular things such as the License Agreement acceptance and selecting the destination location. ![]() Installation and setup went smooth, trouble-free and surprisingly fast. The distributive for East-Tech Eraser 2014 goes in two versions: commercial and the 15-day free trial. Well, quite intriguing, isn’t it? Let’s now get down to some specifics and see what East-Tech Eraser 2014 has got in store for the average customer. Marines within an experiment on information protection enhancement conducted by DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) in 2001. Some more facts: this product has been around since 1998 it was used by the U.S. The recognition of East-Tec Eraser is definitely on the rise: it got awards from the renowned and unbiased software evaluation portals and magazines such as Softpedia (Five Start Excellent Review), CNET (Editor’s Rating: Outstanding), Computer Shopper, PC Advisor and a number of others. By the way, those of you who are certain that it suffices to use the Windows removal options might get upset to learn that all they do is keep you from accessing those files, whereas they are still physically there. This software is smart enough to figure out which files to target – you run a scan, and get the complete list of those. On the other, more importantly, the application removes sensitive objects beyond subsequent recovery, no matter how smart and cutting-edge the tools are that identity thieves might apply. On the one hand, this product relieves the operating system from being encumbered by unnecessary files, thus contributing to substantial computer productivity improvement. Without going too far ahead, we must admit it copes commendably with the targeted tasks addressing complete erasure of data. Our today’s subject is one of such utilities, called East-Tec Eraser 2014 by the Romania based ‘East Technologies’ company. The current relevance of privacy software is therefore perfectly well understood. ![]() – and put it all together to form a complete digital derivative of you as a person? This can all be exposed, directly or implicitly, by the contents of your computer’s hard drive. What is it that can allow criminals to learn your personally identifiable data such as habits, commercial preferences, private life details, credit card history, business occupation etc. One’s real-world identity and its cyber counterpart are now merged to the extent where the former can be stolen by retrieving details of the latter. The tangible shift in computing which is steadily acquiring the properties of an overwhelming tendency is personal data protection. ![]()
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