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PrivacyScan provides protection by scanning your Mac for files that could compromise your privacy and offers multiple levels of shredding to securely erase them from your system. Safely and securely destroy Internet files used for tracking your whereabouts such as cache files, browsing history, cookies, flash cookies and temporary files to clean your Mac and save space while stopping snoopers from spying on your system.
With PrivacyScan, you can rest assured that your tracks remain covered, your private information remains private, and deleted items stay that way. The secure
With PrivacyScan, you can rest assured that your tracks remain covered, your private information remains private, and deleted items stay that way. The secure
What's New
Version 1.1:
NEW FEATURES & IMPROVEMENTS
- Added cleaning support for Finder Download Quarantine History
- Added cleaning support for Finder Recent Folders
- Added "Rate this App" option
- Fixed a bug where the "confetti" animation was not appearing at the correct height during file shredding
- Fixed a bug where the PrivacyScan user interface could become unresponsive while cleaning certain privacy threats if secure shredding was disabled
- Fixed a bug where the PrivacyScan user interface could become unresponsive while cleaning temporary items from a previous PrivacyScan session in certain situations
- Fixed a bug where PrivacyScan could crash under OS X 10.7 when repeatedly clicking the window zoom button with tips enabled
- Minor user interface updates and improvements
Version 1.1:
NEW FEATURES & IMPROVEMENTS
- Added cleaning support for Finder Download Quarantine History
- Added cleaning support for Finder Recent Folders
- Added "Rate this App" option
- Fixed a bug where the "confetti" animation was not appearing at the correct height during file shredding
- Fixed a bug where the more...
Requirements
- Intel
- 64-bit processor.
- Mac OS X 10.6.6 or later.
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PrivacyScan provides protection by scanning your Mac for files that could compromise your privacy and offers multiple levels of shredding to securely erase them from your system. Safely and securely destroy Internet files used for tracking your whereabouts such as cache files, browsing history, cookies, flash cookies and temporary files to clean your Mac and save space while stopping snoopers from spying on your system.
With PrivacyScan, you can rest assured that your tracks remain covered, your private information remains private, and deleted items stay that way. The secure shredding offered within PrivacyScan goes above and beyond United States Department of Defense (DoD) deletion standards by overwriting files with up to 35 passes to ensure complete deletion of sensitive data.
With PrivacyScan, you can rest assured that your tracks remain covered, your private information remains private, and deleted items stay that way. The secure shredding offered within PrivacyScan goes above and beyond United States Department of Defense (DoD) deletion standards by overwriting files with up to 35 passes to ensure complete deletion of sensitive data.
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rpjb reviewed on 16 Apr 2012
That being said, we desperately need this type of software to protect ourselves from those who spy on us... bravo Nick !
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http://www.securimed.eu/fr/archives/524
It seems the user doesn't "see" what he is actually deleting, I mean which specific cookie, which specific database, which specific LSO... at least I coudn't see that. Also means you don't "see" who planted all this spyware on your browser/hard disk... which is quite frustrating... and you can't select those specific cookies - even tracking cookies - you want to keep and protect... or am I mistaken ?
An awkward feature is that you've got to quit the browser(s) in order to be able to operate the software, which you don't have to do in Cookies (SweetP Productions, Russell Gray).
On the positive side, the appearance is more elaborate than Cookies' with even some sound (useless)... and it seems to remove more items than Cookies does (caches, histories...), which is a good thing.
The ideal software would be a blend of Cookies and Privacyscan, but I think Cookies has more potential and is basically a more clever program even if it lacks some luster as a matter of looks and "communication"...
I would stick with Cookies... but for 9.99 USD (7.99 EUR) why not have some fun ?
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Cleaning simply deletes the file from the system, shredding overwrites the file with 1, 7, or 35 passes of random data, as specified in the PrivacyScan Preferences when Secure Shredding is selected for the Threat Removal Settings. With specialized software, files that are simply deleted from the system (and not overwritten) can later be recovered in some cases. Secure Shredding overwrites the file with random data to limit the potential to recover the file data at a later time. Shredding takes longer that simply deleting the file, which can increase the amount of time it takes for PrivacyScan to eliminate detected privacy threats.
There could be many different reasons why PrivacyScan was unable to delete the Firefox Cache. Were you running Firefox while PrivacyScan was cleaning? Try quitting Firefox, opening your Utilities folder and running Disk Utility to Repair Permissions on your Hard Drive, and then restarting your computer once Repair Permissions is complete. Then, run PrivacyScan right away before running any other programs or browsers. If you still encounter problems cleaning the Firefox Cache file, let us know and we can investigate further.
PrivacyScan alerts you to the apps that are running, which you can then locate by clicking the magnifying glass icon. Shutting down a program from within the application itself is the best way to ensure it shuts down properly, and doesn’t cause problems. If you quit your web browsers before running PrivacyScan, you will not see the alert.
I’m not familiar with the Cookies program, so I’m not in the position to make a comparison.
PrivacyScan does not currently offer an option to specify individual cookies to keep or remove. All cookies are removed when they are selected for cleaning with PrivacyScan. Browser cookies are not selected for cleaning by default, and a warning is displayed before cleaning cookies alerting a user that all cookies will be removed.
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