Program: Privacy Guardian
Author: PC Tools
Platform: Windows 95, 98, ME, 2K, XP
Purchase Privacy Guardian: $19.95 (Normally $29.95. Discount applied automatically until Sept 30, 2005.) http://www.pctools.com/privacy-guardian/purchase/?ref=afl_spywareinfo

Everything you do on your computer leaves a trail. When you surf to a web site, you leave behind internet cache, address bar history, web site visit history and cookies. When you open a document, Windows saves the filename into the registry. When you run certain programs, Windows saves a file into a temporary folder and sometimes does not delete it afterward.

You could spend an hour rummaging through your computer deleting your browser cache, cookies, temp files, address bar history and even those nearly impossible to delete index.dat files. You don't have to waste all that time and energy. Privacy Guardian makes doing these tasks quick and easy.

Privacy Guardian cleans all of these items with the click of a couple of buttons. You can choose which cookies to save so that you don't lose the ones you want to keep. Windows usually protects the index.dat file from being altered, so usually that forces you to reboot the computer in order to delete it. When Privacy Guardian deletes the index.dat files, it simply unloads the Windows graphical shell. That means you don't need to reboot.

In addition to erasing common Windows tracks, Privacy Guardian also includes plug-ins for common non-Microsoft programs which leave usage tracks, such as Netscape, Adobe Acrobat, popular download accelerator products and many more. If a plug-in is written for a program not included in the third party list, it can be downloaded with Privacy Guardian's update feature.

Privacy Guardian includes a file shredder function. If you drag files into the shredder window, they will be overwritten a number of times before finally being deleted. Privacy Guardian uses the US Department of Defense standard (DoD 5220.22-M), rendering them unrecoverable by standard file recovery methods.

Privacy Guardian is published by PC Tools, who also publishes Spyware Doctor. We have worked out a discount for this week which gives you $10.00 off of each program. You can buy either of them for $10.00 off, or buy both of them together and receive a $20.00 discount off the price. You can read my review of Spyware Doctor for information about that program.

The discount should be applied automatically when using the links above. You will see the discount applied when you click the green purchase button. If this is not the case, try using the coupon code SPYWAREINFO. If you have any problems with the ordering page or with the coupon code (SPYWAREINFO), please email Catherine http://www.spywareinfo.com/email2.php.

Anyone buying as a corporate customer and needing many copies of this program, please contact Catherine.