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Jenni-Fluff
Thanks,
Jen
"steelwheel" <inv...@ddress.nospam> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 25 Mar 2001 18:29:09 GMT, in alt.jeep-l, iun...@free.com said:
>
> >EVIDENCE ELIMINATOR:
> > The unique program which professionally cleans and speeds up your
PC..........
> >
> >DELETING CACHE AND HISTORY WILL NOT PROTECT YOU!!!
> >You dont want to be caught out!!...... make your PC safe...
> >
> >THIS PROGRAM IS A MUST!!! CHECK IT OUT...............
> >
>
> The following was written by a friend of mine:
>
> Lemme tell you why this is happening. Evidence Eliminator (which I
> have, BTW) recently doubled its price from $40 to $80 without
> significantly improving the product. So they have added free-lance
> marketers (without any restriction as to how they market) who get a
> $20 commission on everyone that orders a copy using their code.
> Obviously, a lot of these marketers think that by spamming usenet and
> email they will sell more product using their "shock marketing"
> tactics.
>
> Even though I own and use the product and have tested it thoroughly,
> including in police labs, and am satisfied that it will do what it
> claims - I and many other previous advocates of the program now try to
> discourage ANYONE from buying it until:
>
> 1. They change the name from Evidence Eliminator (just what you want
> your boss, your wife, or the police to see on your desktop)
>
> 2. They stop their shock/scare and spam marketing methods.
>
> 3. They either double the quality of the product to justify doubling
> the price, or they take it back to $40 where is was worth the money as
> a damned fine disk cleansing utility, and
>
> 4. They upgrade it so it will work more effectively with the NTFS file
> system
>
> In the meantime, expect to see a massive xposted promotion at least
> twice a week. Everytime I see a xpost for it, I try to talk at least
> ONE person from purchasing it. My own revenge!
>
> So, for equal time, I will give you three reasons NOT to buy it!
>
> 1. Eliminating 'evidence' (i.e. cookies, registry entries, web history
> and temp files, regular temp files, .bak and other garbage files that
> Windows leaves all over the place and eliminating any chance of
> recovering these files from simple methods of "undelete" to magnetic
> underwriting of the drive (which involves electron microscopy and
> needn't concern 99.9999999999999% of us) is a time-consuming project.
>
> To do a DOD level disk wipe, which is 7x0 + 7x1 + 7xR (seven passes of
> writing a zero, then 7 of writing a 1, then seven of a randomly
> generated character) on a 16Gb drive takes 16 hours, 37 minutes on a
> PII 450 with 128 Mb RAM. Yes, I timed it on one of my machines. If you
> are worried that someone will look for something "naughty" on your
> machine, please ask them for at least a days notice.
>
> 2. If a law enforcement matter, you can bet that the police have
> enough information to arrest you even *before* they come and seize
> your computers and disks. Evidence Eliminator works *after the fact*
> (meaning you've already done the crime, it just cleans up after you)
> and there are ways of catching you committing the crime in real-time,
> either at the ISP/business server level, keystroke loggers, trojan
> penetration pursuant to a search warrant (only if by LEO - your boss
> doesn't need a warrant,) or if you really justify the cost, a TEMPEST
> attack. If you've never heard of TEMPEST, look it up - it's too
> complicated to explain in this post.
>
> 3. There is a program out called "Window Washer" (look it up, I don't
> have the URL) which does a lot of what EE does at a fraction of the
> price. There is a freeware program called "BC WIPE" which will also
> wipe files to a DOD level of security.
>
> You can also set up a virtual encrypted drive using either PGP or
> Scramdisk, and have all questionable materials or photos stored on
> this drive. Without the passphrase, the drive is encrypted and there
> is no access.
>
> Now, for the revenge. If any of you are pissed off and swear never to
> purchase the product until they clean up their own act, please snip
> everything appropriate from the above and append your own "I promise."
>
> Please snip all groups other than your own group from the xpost list,
> this is not meant to be a cascade.
>