ACRONIS PRIVACY EXPERT SUITE 7.0 User manual

Acronis Privacy Expert Suite 7.0
User’s Guide
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Table of Contents
END-USER LICENSE AGREEMENT ..................................................................................................3
INTRODUCTION...............................................................................................................................6
What is Acronis Privacy Expert Suite?.................................................................................................6
Why is it necessary to keep PC work confidential?..............................................................................6
Standards of guaranteed destruction of confidential information..........................................................7
What's new in Acronis Privacy Expert Suite 7.0?.................................................................................7
What Acronis Privacy Expert Suite enables you to clean up................................................................8
On the contents of the guide, or how to find the necessary information...............................................8
System requirements...........................................................................................................................9
Software use conditions.......................................................................................................................9
Technical support.................................................................................................................................9
CHAPTER 1. INSTALLING ACRONIS PRIVACY EXPERT SUITE...........................................11
1.1 What’s included ........................................................................................................11
1.2 Installing the system.................................................................................................11
1.3 Recovering Acronis Privacy Expert Suite.................................................................11
1.4 Removing the software.............................................................................................11
CHAPTER 2. WORKING WITH ACRONIS PRIVACY EXPERT SUITE ....................................12
2.1 Getting started..........................................................................................................12
2.2 The main window......................................................................................................12
2.3 Logical software organization: sections....................................................................13
2.3.1 Complex PC clean-up.........................................................................................................13
2.3.2 Cleaning separate system components..............................................................................13
2.3.3 Additional cleanup tools......................................................................................................14
2.4 Acronis Privacy Expert Suite global settings............................................................14
2.4.1 General preferences ...........................................................................................................14
2.4.2 Scheduled tasks..................................................................................................................15
2.5 Executing PC clean-up manually..............................................................................15
2.6 Using File Shredder..................................................................................................15
2.7 Folders/files clean-up through the context menu .....................................................16
2.8 Clean-up settings......................................................................................................17
2.8.1 Clean-up settings editor......................................................................................................17
2.8.2 Setting PC component clean-up with the editor ..................................................................17
2.9 Separate components clean-up settings..................................................................18
2.10 System component clean-up settings...................................................................19
2.10.1 «Data destruction method» setting......................................................................................19
2.10.2 «Files» setting.....................................................................................................................19
2.10.3 «Computers» setting...........................................................................................................21
2.11 Clean-up settings of components related to working on the Internet....................22
2.11.1 «Internet Browsers» setting ................................................................................................22
2.11.2 «Address» setting...............................................................................................................22
2.12 Spyware clean-up preferences .............................................................................23
2.13 Executing scheduled PC clean-up........................................................................23
2.13.1 Invoking the scheduler........................................................................................................24
2.13.2 Scheduled tasks preferences..............................................................................................24
2.14 Paging file..............................................................................................................25
2.15 Renaming clean-up variants .................................................................................25
2.16 Using the Log ........................................................................................................26
CHAPTER 3. COMPLEX PC CLEAN-UP...................................................................................27
3.1 Entire PC clean-up....................................................................................................27
3.2 System clean-up.......................................................................................................28
3.3 Internet clean-up.......................................................................................................28
3.4 Complete spyware clean-up.....................................................................................28
CHAPTER 4. SEPARATE PC COMPONENTS CLEAN-UP......................................................29
4.1 System components.................................................................................................29

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4.1.1 Recycle Bin ........................................................................................................................ 29
4.1.2 Temporary Files .................................................................................................................30
4.1.3 Hard Disk Free Space........................................................................................................ 30
4.1.4 Custom Folders/Files ......................................................................................................... 31
4.1.5 Registry Backups ............................................................................................................... 31
4.1.6 Find Computers List........................................................................................................... 32
4.1.7 Find Files List..................................................................................................................... 33
4.1.8 Recently Used Documents List .......................................................................................... 33
4.1.9 Windows Run List............................................................................................................... 34
4.1.10 Opened/Saved Files History............................................................................................... 34
4.2 Internet components................................................................................................. 35
4.2.1 Internet Cache.................................................................................................................... 35
4.2.2 Cookies.............................................................................................................................. 36
4.2.3 Downloaded components................................................................................................... 38
4.2.4 Last Visited Pages..............................................................................................................39
4.2.5 Typed URLs ....................................................................................................................... 40
4.2.6 Passwords.......................................................................................................................... 41
4.2.7 Forms autocomplete clean-up............................................................................................ 42
4.2.8 E-mail messages................................................................................................................ 43
4.2.9 E-mail contacts................................................................................................................... 43
4.3 Spyware clean-up..................................................................................................... 43
4.3.1 Spyware threats .................................................................................................................44
4.3.2 Browser pages hijacking..................................................................................................... 44
4.3.3 IE Trusted Sites.................................................................................................................. 45
CHAPTER 5. ACRONIS PRIVACY EXPERT POP-UP BLOCKER ........................................... 46
5.1 What are pop-ups?...................................................................................................46
5.2 Acronis Privacy Expert Pop-up Blocker ...................................................................46
5.3 Pop-up Blocker settings ........................................................................................... 46
5.3.1 Acronis Privacy Expert Pop-up Blocker general settings.................................................... 47
5.3.2 Browsed history.................................................................................................................. 47
5.3.3 Blocked URLs ....................................................................................................................47
5.3.4 White URLs........................................................................................................................ 47
5.3.5 Black URLs ........................................................................................................................ 47
CHAPTER 6. ACRONIS DRIVE CLEANSER............................................................................. 48
6.1 Acronis Drive Cleanser capabilities.......................................................................... 48
6.2 Working with Acronis Drive Cleanser.......................................................................48
6.3 Using preset data destruction methods.................................................................... 49
6.4 Creating custom methods of data destruction..........................................................50
6.4.1 Creating custom methods .................................................................................................. 50
6.4.2 Method definition: template................................................................................................ 52
6.4.3 Saving a custom method to file .......................................................................................... 55
6.4.4 Loading an method from a file............................................................................................ 57
6.5 Creating a bootable diskette or CD with Acronis Drive Cleanser ............................ 57
APPENDIX A. HARD DISK WIPING METHODS........................................................................ 59
A.1 Information wiping methods functioning principles................................................... 59
A.2 Information wiping methods used by Acronis...........................................................60

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Introduction
What is Acronis Privacy Expert Suite?
It is an integrated software suite that provides confidentiality and protects
standalone PCs or machines connected to the Internet.
The following capabilities of Acronis Privacy Expert Suite ensure PC
confidentiality:
•PC hard disk and any Windows partitions clean-up of any traces of user
actions
•Unwanted pop-up ad blocking for convenient Web browsing
•Clean-up of spyware that secretly operates on a user’s PC
•Guaranteed confidential data destruction on selected hard disks or disk
partitions
Unlike other software, Acronis Privacy Expert Suite fully removes evidence of PC
usage through the use of guaranteed data destruction methods.
It also increases PC performance by cleaning out temporary files.
Why is it necessary to keep PC work confidential?
Working with a PC creates a number of serious security problems for users:
•You have created and deleted multiple files on your computer. You do not
want anyone to view its contents. But is a deleted file really gone? No! The
problem is that deleted files can be easily recovered under the Windows
operating system to gain access to information a user would like to conceal.
•Windows and the most widely used browsers, Internet Explorer and
Netscape Navigator, provide very weak protection on keeping trace Internet
data private.
•While working with a PC, you leave thousands of bytes of evidence
showing your actions (records in various system files) you don’t even
know about.
•While installing software on your PC, you might unknowingly install
programs that secretly change system settings, collect and transfer personal
information to external addresses, and perform other unwanted and
uncontrollable actions.
•When replacing your old hard drive with a new, higher-capacity one you,
unwittingly leave lots or important and confidential information on the old
drive that can be recovered even if you have reformatted it.
Acronis Privacy Expert Suite provides a solution to all of these problems. It
assures complete confidentiality of your PC and Internet actions and prevents
situations that threaten your computer and general security.

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Standards of guaranteed destruction of confidential information
The software offers the guaranteed destruction of confidential information on
hard disk drives with the help of special methods.
Acronis methods guarantee compliance with most national standards:
•American: U.S. Standard, DoD 5220.22-M
•American: NAVSO P-5239-26 (RLL)
•American: NAVSO P-5239-26 (MFM)
•German: VSITR
•Russian: GOST P50739-95
Besides methods corresponding to national standards, Acronis supports
predefined methods proposed by widely known and authoritative specialists in
the field of information security:
•Peter Gutmann’s method – data on hard disk is destroyed with 35 passes
•Bruce Schneier’s method – data is destroyed with 7 passes
The suite also supports simple but fast methods for information destruction that
zero all sectors on a single hard disk pass.
Another major feature of this version is the opportunity for you to create your
own methods for data destruction.
Detailed information on data destruction standards is given in Appendix A «Hard
Disk Wiping methods» to the current guide.
What's new in Acronis Privacy Expert Suite 7.0?
Acronis Privacy Expert Suite has lots of new features that make it an integrated
software suite. They include:
•Spyware clean-up
•Guaranteed data destruction on selected hard drives and partitions
•Pop-up blocking for convenient Web surfing
•Selected e-mail deletion in Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express along
with contact list and address book clean-up
•Browsed URLs clean-up
•Forms autocomplete and password lists clean-up
•Convenient paging file clean-up wizard
•Quick user files and folders clean-up through Windows Explorer interface or
context menu
•Software actions logging
Additionally, improvements have been made to provide even more convenience
in Acronis Privacy Expert Suite.

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What Acronis Privacy Expert Suite enables you to clean up
The suite enables you to remove the evidence of your work in any Windows
section. It allows you:
•to remove Windows registry backups that retain evidence of a user’s work
with PCs and the Internet
•to delete temporary files from standard Windows folders
•to delete custom folders/files from any disks connected to a PC
•to clean the Windows Recycle Bin
•to clean hard disk free space
•to clean the opened/saved files history
•to remove evidence from the Find Files list and Find Computers list
•to clean the Internet cache
•to delete cookies
•to delete downloaded components
•to clean up the Last Visited Pages and Typed URLs lists
•to delete forms autocomplete and password lists for Web sites that require
authorization
•to delete e-mail messages in Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Outlook
Express and clean up the contacts and address book lists
•to block unwanted pop-up ads
•to destroy securely all data on hard disks or partitions, if needed
•to remove secretly operating spyware threats
•to clean up the Windows paging/swap file
Acronis Privacy Expert Suite permanently removes evidence of user PC activity.
To clean up a PC, Acronis Privacy Expert Suite strict methods for guaranteed
confidential data destruction that meet and/or exceed most national/state
standards (see Appendix A «Hard Disk Wiping methods» for details).
On the contents of the guide, or how to find the necessary information
This user’s guide contains the following main chapters:
•Chapter 1«Installing Acronis Privacy Expert Suite» — contains detailed
information about the installation of this software suite.
•Chapter 2 «Working with Acronis Privacy Expert Suite»— describes common
principles and settings of the software.
•Chapter 3 «Complex PC clean-up»:
If you need to perform a comprehensive clean-up of all PC partitions, see the
section 3.1 «Entire PC clean-up»

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If you need to perform a comprehensive system clean-up, see the section
3.2 «System clean-up»
If you need to remove Web activity traces only, see the section 3.3
«Internet clean-up».
If you need to perform a comprehensive spyware clean-up, see the section
3.4 «Complete spyware clean-up».
•If you need to quickly clean up particular Windows components (partitions),
see Chapter 4 «Separate PC components clean-up».
•Chapter 5 «Acronis Privacy Expert Pop-up Blocker» is dedicated to the pop-
up ad tool included in Acronis Privacy Expert Suite.
•Chapter 6 «Acronis Drive Cleanser» provides tools for guaranteed data
destruction on selected drives or partitions.
•Appendix A «Hard Disk Wiping methods» — contains more detailed
information about used methods of guaranteed confidential data destruction on
PC hard disk.
System requirements
•To take full advantage ofAcronis Privacy Expert Suite, you should have:
•a PC-compatible computer with a Pentium CPU or equivalent
•32 MB RAM
•a floppy or a CD-RW drive
•VGA monitor
•a mouse (recommended)
•Microsoft Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP
•Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher for correct Pop-up Blocker
operation
Software use conditions
The conditions for use of Acronis Privacy Expert Suite are listed in the supplied
«License Agreement». To be able to prove that you legally purchased and use
the suite, you received a registration card along with the package. Each
registration card has a unique number.
Based on current legislation, the «License Agreement» is considered as a
contract between user and software vendor. Violation of the contract may lead
to prosecution.
Illegal use or distribution of software a violation of the law and will be
prosecuted.
Technical support
Users that have legally purchased and registered their copy of Acronis Privacy
Expert Suite will receive free e-mail technical support from Acronis. If you have

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problems installing or using the system that you cannot resolve with the help of this
guide and readme file, please e-mail technical support. You will also need to
provide the registration number of your Acronis Privacy Expert Suite supplied with
this package.
Support URL: http://www.acronis.com/support/
E-mail: [email protected]

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Chapter 1. Installing Acronis Privacy
Expert Suite
1.1 What’s included
•installation CD-ROM
•this guide
•License Agreement
•registration card
•advertising information
1.2 Installing the system
To install the software, insert the installation CD-ROM into your drive and run
the program. Please carefully follow all instructions shown in the installation
wizard.
During the installation, you will be prompted to create a bootable diskette or CD
with Acronis Privacy Expert Suite. Using this disk you will be able to easily and
securely destroy information on your PC that doesn’t have Acronis Privacy Expert
Suite installed. If you don't want to create this diskette immediately, you will be
able to do it later using the Bootable Media Builder feature included with the suite.
Having answered all the questions in the installation wizard and copied Acronis
Privacy Expert Suite files to the hard disk, you must reboot your PC.
1.3 Recovering Acronis Privacy Expert Suite
If Acronis Privacy Expert Suite is damaged during installation or execution, run its
installation program again. The software will determine that the suite has already
been installed to your PC and ask if you want to recover (update) or remove it
from the disk.
In the installation wizard window, select Recover/update Acronis Privacy Expert
Suite and click Next. All files will be copied to your hard disk again to restore the
software.
1.4 Removing the software
To remove the software, select Acronis ÆPrivacy Expert Suite ÆRemove Acronis
Privacy Expert Suite from the Programs menu. You will see the dialog box to
confirm removal of the software from your PC hard disk.
To confirm removal, click Yes. Acronis Privacy Expert Suite will be removed
completely from your PC.

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Chapter 2. Working with Acronis Privacy
Expert Suite
2.1 Getting started
The Acronis Privacy Expert Suite user interface features standard Windows XP
icon graphical user interface (GUI) elements. We will not describe details here,
but instead pay general attention to setting and executing clean-up variants.
2.2 The main window
Acronis Privacy Expert Suite is controlled from the main window. It is shown on the
screen after selecting Acronis ÆPrivacy Expert Suite ÆPrivacy Expert Suite from
the Programs menu. The main window is a Windows dialog box split into two parts.
The right part contains grouped lists of main PC clean-up variants that the user
can execute with Acronis Privacy Expert Suite.
The left part of the window called the sidebar – an element first introduced in
Windows XP – contains the following sections:
•Clean-up – to perform upon objects in the right part of the window
•Edit – for changing properties and names of objects in the right part of the
window
•Tools – included in the Acronis Privacy Expert Suite and providing a number
of additional security and clean-up capabilities against spyware threats and
pop-up windows. Also the Tools section includes a number of wizards for
additional user convenience
•Settings – enabling fine suite tuning and log access
•Details – brief context help regarding either software component
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Clean-up variants are executed, set, scheduled and renamed with the help of
corresponding items of the main menu, toolbar, sidebar and context menus.
2.3 Logical software organization: sections
Logically, Acronis Privacy Expert Suite consists of several parts, each enabling
users to perform various tasks:
(1) specific variants of complex PC clean-up from PC activity evidence
(2) clean up separate components (System components, Internet components,
Spyware components)
(3) Tools
2.3.1 Complex PC clean-up
In the One Click clean-up section, shown by default in the right part of the main
window, users have access to icons of four predefined complex PC clean-ups.
If you need to perform:
1. entire PC clean-up, including Windows system areas and sections related to
working on the Internet, execute Entire PC clean-up;
2. clean-up of sections related to working on the Internet, execute Internet clean-
up;
3. Windows system section and user files/folders clean-up, execute System
clean-up.
4. Clean your PC up from spyware, select Spyware clean-up.
Attention! Described clean-up variants are fully set up by default and ready fo
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2.3.2 Cleaning separate system components
Internet components and System components sections allow you to perform
a quick clean-up of separate system components after you take specific actions at
your PC.
For example, you need to clean up the browser cache to get rid of garbage after
visiting a dubious-content site and remove its URL from the list of visited sites,
etc. This takes much less time than a complex clean-up.
If you need to perform:

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1. a quick clean-up of only separate components of Windows system sections
and separate user files/folders, execute one of the clean-up variants from the
Components section.
2. a quick clean-up of only separate Windows components related to working on
the Internet, execute a variant from the Internetcomponents section.
3. a quick clean up of only particular Windows components that might be
threatened by spyware and parasites, select one of the Spyware clean-up
variants.
Separate components clean-up takes less time than a complex clean-up of the
entire Windows area.
All PC clean-up variants, as well as separate components clean-up, are executed
manually or by schedule and are set universally (see the section 2.4 Acronis
Privacy Expert Suite global settings)
2.3.3 Additional cleanup tools
You will find additional cleanup and security tools in the Tools section that eliminate
unwanted components.
1. To block unwanted pop-ups on websites, select Acronis Privacy Expert Pop-
up Blocker
2. To clean the paging file, select Paging File Cleaner
3. To destroy data on a selected partition or disk securely and permanently,
select Acronis Drive Cleanser
4. To permanently delete selected files or folders, select the File Shredder.
2.4 Acronis Privacy Expert Suite global settings
If you regularly use Acronis Privacy Expert Suite, you can provide custom
preferences for typical situations.
The global settings window can be invoked in different ways:
•From the Tools sidebar of the Acronis Privacy Expert Suite main window
•From the Tools submenu of the main menu
•By clicking the Edit global settings icon on the Toolbar
2.4.1 General preferences
The general preferences section contains the following items:
•Ask Before Clean-up -- When this is flagged, the software will ask for your
confirmation before each component, group of components or system as a
whole is cleaned up.
•Treat shortcuts as separate files -- When this is flagged, the shortcut target
will be left untouched. Otherwise target files will be deleted along with the
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2.4.2 Scheduled tasks
The scheduled clean-up (see the section 2.13 Executing scheduled PC clean-up)
might lead to errors if data to be deleted is used by other programs.
You can set up Acronis Privacy Expert Suite for such situations by selecting from
the following variants:
•Ignore
•Retry
•Cancel
•Ask user
2.5 Executing PC clean-up manually
There are three ways to manually execute complex PC and component clean-
up.
PC or separate component clean-up, previously selected from the right part of
the main window, can be executed by:
•mouse-clicking Start Now! in the main window sidebar
•selecting Clean-up ÆStart Now! from the main menu
•selecting Start Now! from the task context menu
If you can’t see clean-up variants or components to clean in the workspace,
scroll down to make them visible.
2.6 Using File Shredder
The File Shredder enables users to select files and folders quickly in order to
destroy them permanently.
This wizard features the familiar Windows Explorer interface, ensuring that it is
easy to use.
To run the folders/files cleaner, do one of the following:
•Select File Shredder in the Tools section of Acronis Privacy Expert Suite
sidebar
•Select Tools ÆFile Shredder in the main menu

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Using File Shredder
2.7 Folders/files clean-up through the context menu
Acronis Privacy Expert Suite provides an easy way to quickly delete files and
clean up folders through the Windows Explorer context menu. This requires you
to:
•select the necessary files or folder with the mouse or the Tab button
•click the right mouse button or the context menu button on the keyboard
•in the invoked window, select Wipe with Acronis Privacy Expert Suite.
After this, the suite will securely delete the selected file or clean up the selected
folder (leaving the folder itself untouched).
With the help of the context menu, you can also set up the clean-up preferences
and select a data destruction method (for more details see the section 2.10.1
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Folders/files clean-up through the context menu
The context menu also allows you to securely clean up the Windows Recycle Bin.
At that, clean-up preferences can not only include the data destruction method,
but also the destruction wildcard.
2.8 Clean-up settings
By changing clean-up settings, you can set Acronis Privacy Expert Suite for your
personal needs. For example, you can select an method of guaranteed data
destruction that suits your needs by speed and reliability; enter the type of
temporary files to clean; directly select browser used; disable separate
component clean-up; etc. This will enable the software to clean your PC at
maximum speed and performance.
Settings are described below.
2.8.1 Clean-up settings editor
Having selected a clean-up variant by mouse-clicking from the right part of the
main window, and then Properties from the sidebar Edit list, you invoke the
settings editor. You can also do this by selecting a clean-up variant and Clean-
up ÆProperties from the main menu. Finally, the settings editor can be invoked
from the context menu of a clean-up variant by selecting Properties.
2.8.2 Setting PC component clean-up with the editor
Below you can see the opened settings editor, featuring two groups of
components to clean that belong to the Entire PC clean-up. These include:
•Internet clean-up – this group includes clean-up of sections related to
working on the Internet
•System clean-up – this group includes Windows system section and user
files/folders clean-up
•Spyware clean-up – includes spyware threat clean-up tools
Grouped PC components to clean are described later (see Chapter 4 «Separate PC
components clean-up»).
If you need to set up component clean-up:
1. Select the component from the left part of the editor and check the
Enable <component name> box.
The description of a component to clean
2. Set component clean-up; for this consecutively select each
component clean-up setting and set it up as necessary
(selecting/entering clean-up method, file type, Internet browser,
etc.).

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«Files» setting
3. To save your settings, click Apply. To discard changes, click Cancel.
If you need to restore Acronis Privacy Expert Suite default clean-up
settings:
1. Select the component tree root — Settings.
2. In the right part of the editor, click Restore Defaults.
Restoring Acronis Privacy Expert Suite default settings
2.9 Separate components clean-up settings
Having selected a specific component to clean from the editor, you open the list
of its clean-up settings.
Each component to clean has in Acronis Privacy Expert Suite several settings (from
1 to 3 depending on a component).
Below are settings common for a number of components. Specific settings of separate
components are described in Chapter 4 «Separate PC components clean-up».

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2.10 System component clean-up settings
«Data Destruction Method» and «Files» settings are common for system
component clean-up.
2.10.1 «Data destruction method» setting
Having selected the «Data Destruction Method» setting, you can change the
security level provided for PC clean-up and clean-up speed.
For detailed information about data destruction methods, please see Appendix A
«Hard Disk Wiping methods»
The most secure methods are always very slow, and conversely, the quickest
methods provide lower levels of reliability and security.
Having mouse-clicked a setting name, you will see its available element in the
right part of the editor – the selection of data destruction methods.
Selecting a data destruction method
You will see all data destruction methods available in Acronis Privacy Expert
Suite by clicking your mouse on the drop-down list in the right part of the editor.
If you need to ensure:
1. maximum security of PC activity evidence, select Peter Gutmann’s method
(35 data destruction cycles), but please keep in mind that this method is
quite slow.
2. mid-level security at an average speed of clean-up, select VSITR or Bruce
Schneier’s method (7 data destruction cycles).
3. fast PC clean-up with limited security in mind, select any of the 1-3-pass
methods (see A.2 «Information wiping methods used by Acronis»).
2.10.2 «Files» setting
The «Files» setting provides temporary filenames to clean with Acronis Privacy
Expert Suite (from the Windows Recycle Bin and from system and user folders)
and can be used with a search string.

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Under the Windows operating system, a search string can represent a full or partial
filename. A search string can contain any alphanumeric symbols, including comma, *
and ? symbols, and can have values similar to the following:
•*.* – to delete all files from the Recycle Bin – with any file names and
extensions
•*.doc – to delete files with specific extension – a Microsoft document file in
this case
•read*.* – to delete all files with any extensions, and names beginning with
«read»
•read?.* – to delete all files having five-letter names and any extensions,
names beginning with «read»; the fifth letter is random
•The last search string, for example, will result in removal of read1.txt,
ready.doc files, but readyness.txt will remain with its longer name
(excluding the extension)
You can enter several different search strings separated by a semicolon; for
example:
*.bak; *.tmp; *.~~~;
. . . and so on. All files with names corresponding to at least one of the search
strings will be deleted.
Attention! The len
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th of a search strin
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with full or partial filenames is almost infinite!
You can enter any number of filenames or their parts like *.tmp, read?.* separated by
a semicolon.
The «Files» setting has five system components to clean: Recycle Bin,
Temporary Files, Custom Folders/Files, Find Files List and Recently Used
Documents List.
«Files»setting
If you need to: