lets talk again about evidence eliminator again

I have one word for Evidence Eliminator. ****.

There are ways to the things EE better without paying for it. Besides, they use a very agressive ad campaign based on the fears of n00bs. I wrote them off a long time ago.

My big problem with any type of these automated tools, be it Evidence Elimintator, ZeroTrace, MRUBlaster, or whatever, is that anyone who needs a tool to do things like this for them has no way of being sure it actually works. By the time I would check the results of running a tool like this, I could have cleaned it all myself enyway.

I can, however, see one good use for it. Suppose a lawyer, or a doctor, or somebody with a client confidentiality oath shares a computer with a family. His or her spouse, children, or friends who may use the computer could easily come across these records. Worse yet, these records may be leaked by spyware. This would be cause for a malpractice nlawsuit.

Perhaps, suppose I am a criminal investigator closing in on a child porn marketer. I use public Internet cafes to engage him/her in discussion and track him this person down without detection. However, I am under a strict publication ban. If news leaks out that I am on his/her trail, this person will be gone forever. I would obviously want this evidence cleaned off public computers. This would hold true for any investigation.

But for individual users afraid that thier parents or thier spouses will find evidence of porn surfing, if you need a tool like this to do it for you, you will never be sure it actually works on your system.

Hi Striek,

I see from your mood statement that you set your car on fire............I sincerely hope that you and yours are OK.

I do recall a post of yours a few days ago when you stated that your fuel line was dumping gas on your exhaust?

You were "too lazy to do anything about it".............guess the message about updating antivirus came through a slightly different way?

The Lord works in mysterious ways?

Good Luck

Cheers,

Johnno

Damn. I guess that bit me in the ass. I'm alright, though. The car is too. Yay for fire extinguishers!

The point, however, was that the law requiring me to fix that leak is about as effective as any proposed home-user antivirus law. And I was trying to fix the leak when it happened. I didn't tighten a line up properly and it fell off. The lesson would be more along the lines of how easily a simple mistake can cause a big problem.

But the lesson still stands. Be proactive, not reactive. Don't wait to make your disaster recovery plan until after a diasaster, don't wait to update your AV until after a virus, and don't wait to fix a gas leak until after the fire.

Though i do not encourage actions which lead u 2 such software,i saw a software called X-Cleaner which can b used 4 this with lot of other basic functions.

Hi Striek,

Glad to hear that everything is OK :)


gizmofreak,


I think that I know where you are coming from, but sometimes it is good to clean your system because of malware that might attack you and hide in those locations? Also what is the point of defragmenting rubbish?

Cheers