User Guide

(3) American: NAVSO P-5239-26 (MFM),
(4) German: VSITR,
(5) Russian: Russian Standard, GOST P50739-95.
Besides algorithms that meet national standards, Acronis PrivacyExpert
provides two far more powerful pre-defined algorithms offered by top
information security specialists:
(6) Peter Gutmann’s algorithm;
(7) Bruce Schneier’s algorithm.
After using the most powerful clean-up algorithms of Acronis PrivacyExpert
the disk data can in no way be recovered by any modern methods
including the most powerful magnetic microscopy!
The user is also provided with a simple, but fast algorithm to use in less
important situations:
(8) Fast.
The algorithm operation is based on multiple rewritin
g
of hard disk sectors
containin
g
user data with chains of lo
g
ical 0 and 1. As a result previously written
data is replaced by newer random data. For more information on the al
g
orithms see
Appendix A. «Hard Disk Wiping Algorithms». There you will also find information on
the number of hard disk passes, provided by each al
g
orithm, and numeric chains
written in the process (see A.2 «Algorithms Used by Acronis PrivacyExpert and »).
3.8 Complex PC Clean-up
Using variants of complex PC clean-up described below, you can clean a large
number of various Windows components that keep evidence of your PC
activity.
3.8.1 Entire PC Clean-up
If you need to clean a PC of any evidence of your activity, select the Entire
PC clean-up. Executing it, you’ll be able to clean all Windows components
accessible by Acronis PrivacyExpert:
1. clean Windows registry from user activity evidence;
2. delete temporary files from standard Windows folders;
3. delete any file types from user folders on any disks connected
to the PC;
4. clean Windows Recycle Bin;
5. clean Windows swap file;
6. clean hard disk free space;
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