Acronis power utilities User Manual

 

 

(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 rewriting of hard disk sectors 

containing  user  data  with  chains  of  logical 0 and 1. As a result previously written 

data is replaced by newer random data. For more information on the algorithms see 

Appendix A.   «Hard Disk Wiping Algorithms». There you will also find information on 

the number of hard disk passes, provided by each algorithm, and numeric chains 
written in the process (see A.2 «Algorithms Used by Acronis PrivacyExpert and »). 

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. 

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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