New application revolutionizes Computer Privacy on the Internet

Many utilities claim to delete the Internet History and computer activity, but to completely erase a file from a magnetic media is not as easy as one might think. A file which has been overwritten many times can be recovered, and even the files from a formatted hard drive can be recovered! Privacy Guard® uses a new technology which completely destroys all unwanted files on a hard drive, including Internet History, Cache, Cookies, and Computer Activity. The data can in no way be recovered!

Privacy Guard® from Amic Games is an application designed to offer secure deletion of all the unwanted files on a computer. It can easy locate and clean the Internet History, Cookies, Cache, Recycled Bin, Windows run and find history, index.dat files, temporary folders, and any custom file or folder.

Unlike traditional file shredders and Internet Privacy utilities, Privacy Guard® uses a brand new technology to erase the files on the magnetic media.

When deleting a file Windows only removes a file's directory entry, but leaves the data contained in the file on the disk drive, which can be easily recovered by any average computer user using a undelete utility.

Most file shredders try to destroy the files by overwriting them several times with junk or random values. This makes it impossible to recover by the average computer user, but it still can be recovered by special designed hardware and software.

Faced with techniques such as Magnetic force microscopy, truly deleting data from magnetic media is very difficult. The problem lies in the fact that when data is written to the medium, the write head sets the polarity of most, but not all, of the magnetic domains. This is partially due to the inability of the writing device to write in exactly the same location each time, and partially due to the variations in media sensitivity and field strength over time and among devices.            

Practically, when a one is written to disk the media records a one, and when a zero is written the media records a zero. However the actual effect is closer to obtaining a 0.95 when a zero is overwritten with a one, and a 1.05 when a one is overwritten with a one. Normal disk circuitry is set up so that both these values are read as ones, but using specialized circuitry it is possible to work out what previous "layers" contained.

Using more advanced recovery techniques, even files that have been overwritten a large number of times can still be recovered with special hardware.

Privacy Guard® is using a new algorithm invented by Amic Games which calculates what patterns of data should be written to disk based on the actual file data and the hard drive characteristics, in order to destroy forever the unwanted files.

Running on Microsoft's Windows 95/98/Me/2000/NT and XP operating systems Privacy Guard® has an easy to use and intuitive interface, while the powerful erasing engine will conserve drive space and protect the user privacy by cleaning up the computer.

Developer Site: http://www.amicgames.com

Privacy Guard® homepage: http://www.amicgames.com/show.php?v=privacyguard
System requirements: P 133Mhz, 16Mb Ram, 10Mb Free Hdd, Windows 95/98/2000

Fully functional Trial Version: http://www.amicgames.com/download/PrivacyGuardSetup.exe
Screen Shoot: http://www.amicgames.com/images/privguard/screenshot01.jpg
Pad file: http://www.amicgames.com/pad/privacyguard.xml    ;

About Amic Games
Founded in 1998, Amic Games is a young Romanian software development company whose goal is to create fun games and useful utilities.