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Sygate Personal Firewall, a must-have security measure for any home PC that connects to the Internet, gives you complete confidence that your precious business, personal, financial and other data is safe and secure from hackers and other malicious intruders. Best of all, it is FREE for personal and home use.

This is a spyware removal utility that scans your memory, registry and hard drives for known spyware components and lets you remove them. Options such as scanning depth and automatic modes can be set in the preferences menu. It features a wizard-style interface that will guide you through the scanning and removal process.

It also includes backup and restore functionality, excluding of selected components, multilingual support and shell integration.

AWare Obliterator V1.2.1 is a simple to use and fast method for removing confidential files from your PC (currently Win95 only). All the characters in the file are replaced with spaces before it is deleted. The registration bug in 1.1a has now been fixed. 

Ever wondered how many cookies are on your computer and where they came from? This little utility will not only show you but also lets you delete the ones you don't want. It will present you with a list of all the cookies on your computer, date and time they were created and give you a link directly to the web site that put them there. Update shows the expiration date and life of the cookies. You may be surprised!

Eraser is an advanced security tool (for Windows), which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns. 
You can drag and drop files and folders to the on-demand eraser, use the convenient Explorer shell extension or use the integrated scheduler to program overwriting of unused disk space or, for example, browser cache files to happen regularly, at night, during your lunch break, at weekends or whenever you like.

The patterns used for overwriting are based on Peter Gutmann's paper "Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory" and they are selected to effectively remove the magnetic remnants from the hard disk making it impossible to recover the data.

Other methods include the one defined in the National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual of the US Department of Defense and overwriting with pseudo-random data. You can also define your own overwriting methods.

Why should I use it? 
Most people have some data that they would rather not share with others - passwords, personal information, classified documents from work, financial records, self-written poems, the list can be continued forever. Perhaps you have saved some of this information on your computer where it is conveniently at your reach, but when the time comes to remove the data from your hard disk, things get a bit more complicated and maintaining your privacy is not as simple as it may have seemed at first.
Your first thought may be that when you delete the file, the data is gone. Not quite, when you delete a file, the operating system does not really remove the file from the disk; it only removes the reference of the file from the file system table. The file remains on the disk as long as another file is created over it, and even after that, it might be possible to recover data by studying the magnetic fields on the disk platter surface. Before the file is overwritten, anyone can easily retrieve it with a disk maintenance or an undelete utility.

For example, imagine that you have been surfing on the web for a while and afterwards wish to clear any traces revealing what sites you visited. You go to your browser’s preferences and select to clear the cache and the history file, the information is now gone you think to yourself - well think again. The browser cache files can easily be restored with an undelete utility and your privacy is once again compromised.

To be sure that a file is gone, its contents must be properly overwritten before deleting. As simple as it sounds, there are several problems in secure file removal, mostly caused by the construction of a hard disk and the use of data encoding. These problems have been taken into consideration when Eraser was designed and because this intuitive design you can safely and easily erase private data from your disk.

Top reviews from the most popular software sites and computer magazines confirm that Eraser is one of the best security tools available for Windows. In 1999, over 150 000 copies were downloaded from ZDNet and this site alone.

While most products that claim to offer the same class of security and similar features are expensive, Eraser is, and has always been - free. Compare yourself.

The BCWipe utility is designed to securely delete files from the disk. Standard file deletion leaves the contents of the "deleted" file on your disk. Unless it has been overwritten by files subsequently saved, it can be recovered using standard disk utilities. Working quickly and integrated with Windows Shell, BCWipe shreds data in files so that they can not be recovered by any means. 

The BestCrypt software products keep your private data in the encrypted form on the disk and provide you with the transparent access to it from any application program. Keep your letters, databases, private information in the encrypted form on a hard disk, removable medias, magneto-optical devices, CD ROMs, floppies and network disks - all within a standard operating system environment. 
The BestCrypt software is designed as the product with an open architecture: any third-party encryption software and hardware developers are able to insert their own security extensions (like additional encryption algorithms and/or the password verification procedures) into the BestCrypt software. We have created the BestCrypt Development Kit to simplify the development of new encryption modules for BestCrypt. As well the Kit contains all BestCrypt source codes responsible for security of the software, and we hope that evaluation of the source codes will allow users and security professionals to verify security level of the BestCrypt software.