If you need to ensure:
1.
MAXIMUM SECURITY
of PC activity evidence, select Peter Gutmann’s
algorithm (35 data destruction cycles), but please keep in mind that it is
quite slow;
2.
mid-level security at an average speed
of clean-up, select VSITR or Bruce
Schneier’s algorithm (7 data destruction cycles);
3.
fast PC clean-up
without security in mind, select any of the 1-3-pass
algorithms (see A.2 «Algorithms Used by Acronis PrivacyExpert »).
«Files» setting
The «Files» setting
provides
temporary
file names to clean with
Acronis
PrivacyExpert (from Windows Recycle Bin and from system and user folders)
and can be used with a search string.
Under the Windows operating system, a search string can represent a full or
partial file name. A search string may 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 5-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 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 length of a search string with full or partial file names is almost
infinite! You can enter any number of filenames or their parts like
*.tmp, read?.*
separated by semicolon.
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