Acronis Privacy Expert Suite 8.0

The most comprehensive anti-spyware and security suite

Spyware is among the most destructive applications that can be introduced to a system. Keyboard loggers enable criminals to record the keystrokes on users' computers. Aggressive adware slows down a PC performance and delivers unexpected web search results. Hidden spyware programs penetrate system, collect your confidential data, and transmit it over the network. This information may include:

"Identity theft and financial fraud are becoming epidemic," wrote Avivah Litan, vice president and research director in Gartner Research. "Although these kinds of crimes have been around for ages, the Internet has provided criminals with a wide variety of new, online methods for swindling unsuspecting victims."

Acronis Privacy Expert Suite provides you with the proactive, real time protection against spyware parasites, adware, keyloggers, hidden dialers, browser hijackers, and other malicious programs.

Acronis Privacy Expert Suite is not only an anti-spyware solution. It delivers the best value on the market with the must-have security and privacy tools:

Internet clean-up: protect your Internet privacy removing traces of your surfing;

System clean-up: eliminate traces of your system activities;

Disk clean-up: securely destroy all the data on your old hard disk;

File shredder: make your deleted data unrecoverable by undelete or unerase utilities;

Pop-up blocker: stop unwanted pop-up ads;

Data destruction methods: wipe out all data without possibility to recover through the use of 8 powerful data destruction methods.

Frequently asked questions about Acronis Privacy Expert Suite 8.0




What is Acronis Privacy Expert Suite 8.0?

Acronis Privacy Expert Suite is an integrated software suite that provides confidentiality and protects standalone PCs and other PC or server connected to the Internet.
The following capabilities of Acronis Privacy Expert Suite ensure PC confidentiality:

Unlike competitive products that just delete old user information, 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.

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What is "spyware"?

Spyware is a program that secretly changes system settings, collects and transfers personal information to external addresses, and performs other unwanted and uncontrollable actions on your computer. .

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What is Spyware Removal?

The Spyware Removal tool available in Acronis Privac Expert Suite 8.0 finds and removes spyware from your PC. Acronis Privacy Expert Suite 8.0 provides an easy-to-use wizard that allows you to configure the settings of Spyware Removal: scanning mode (smart or deep), spyware types to clean up (by default, the program finds any type of spyware).

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What is a Spyware Shield?

Acronis Privacy Expert Suite 8.0 not only enables you to remove spyware, but also prevent it from getting on your PC in the first place. This is provided by the Spyware Shield — a special tool that monitors your system for suspicious applications and components. You can enable Spyware Shield during Acronis Privacy Expert Suite 8.0 installation or at any time after the program is installed.

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What operating systems does Acronis Privacy Expert Suite 8.0 support?

Acronis Privacy Expert Suite 8.0 works in the following operating systems:

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What is new in Acronis Privacy Expert Suite 8.0 in comparison with Acronis Privacy Expert Suite 7.0?

Acronis Privacy Expert Suite 8.0 has lots of new features that make it an integrated software suite. They include:

Additionally, improvements have been made to provide even more convenience in Acronis Privacy Expert Suite.

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Can I schedule several tasks for the same time?

Yes, you can. All the tasks you scheduled will be started at the time you chose.

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What is the "Switch to classic view" option for?

Acronis Privacy Expert Suite 8.0 provides so-called category view in the new wizard-driven interface. If you have been using Acronis Privacy Expert Suite 7.0, you might want to switch to the classic view, which looks much the same as the interface of the previous version. Whichever view you choose, all the features of Acronis Privacy Expert Suite 8.0 will be available to you.

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What is a spyware definitions base and how is it updated?

The spyware definitions base allows Acronis Privacy Expert Suite 8.0 to detect spyware activity traces and to prevent it from getting on your PC, or to remove it if the spyware has been already installed on your system.

The Acronis development team is continuously working on the expansion of the spyware definitions base for Acronis Privacy Expert Suite 8.0 to detect as wide variety of spyware as possible. You can both update the spyware definitions base of your Acronis Privacy Expert Suite 8.0 right away and schedule automatic updates. In the latter case, the program, based on your choice, will either notify you when an update is available or download and install them in background mode.

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Will Acronis Privacy Expert Suite 8.0 ask for my confirmation prior to deleting any information?

When you run a clean-up, Acronis Privacy Expert Suite 8.0 searches for the components to be deleted and shows them in the tree form. You can uncheck those items you do not want to be deleted and proceed to the scenario window of the wizard where you need to click the Proceed button. After you click the Proceed button, Acronis Privacy Expert Suite 8.0 securely destroys all the items you left checked in the tree. As you can see, Acronis Privacy Expert Suite 8.0 gives you total control on the entire operation.

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Which data destruction method should I choose?

Your choice should depend on the result you want to achieve. If you do not care about how securely the data is wiped, you can choose the Do Not Wipe option, so the information will be deleted, but the free space will not be wiped at all. Please note that this option allows others to recover this information using special applications.

If you want to wipe the free space after the information is deleted, but you want to do that quickly, you can choose the Fast algorithm that will simply fill the free space with zeros. Now, no one will be able to recover the deleted information easily.

If you want even more data destruction protection, choose one of the more comprehensive algorithms. These take more time because they overwrite the data more times than does the Fast algorithm, but it provide greater security. The slowest, but the most reliable algorithm, is the Peter Gutmann algorithm. It ensures that the recovery of the data you deleted is made as difficult as possible to recover for an attacker.


System requirements

Additional Information: Acronic Privacy Expert

OS :  Windows 9x/Me/NT/2000/XP - please see above

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