Does exactly what it claims to do!

I've updated to version 4.8 and it became one version free!? why so? someone can explain.

Dear GOTD,

The Driver software you gave away recently has made it so my laptop cannot reboot to its operating system and is dismantled. Can anyone tell me what to do to save it and get it back? It only gives me 2 options at start... start normal or with repair, and neither work now. Waiting for a response.....

I'm a PC tech with over 15 years of experience. These cleaner programs don't delete anything that will cause your computer to malfunction or not operate properly. They delete temp files, browsing and search history, etc. Yes, someone could use the drive wiper to wipe your HD, but you don't need this software to do that. It can be done through Windows.

If you haven't used it before, try "Tools > Internet Options > Delete (under Browsing History) > and select your options: Temporary Internet Files, Cookies, History, Download History, Form Data, Password, Active X......"

The software developer's guide above says:
System Requirements:
Windows 10/ 8.x/ 7/ Vista/ 2012/ 2008 (x32/x64) ; 1GB of RAM or more; 20MB of available hard disk space

But some known users of XP OS have commented here, apparently after installing and running the software on their XP OS computers.
So is it official that this software CAN run on XP OS?

It even comes with a right click on file and folder to securely delete, thank you:)

Thanks for today's offer but I will stick with System Ninja and CCleaner.
Both are free and work well with each other
I use them with Better Privacy and Glary Utilities and have never had a problem

All that you can do for free with CCleaner :-)

I use the free version of CCleaner. With the Pro version of Privacy Eraser being featured I thought I would try it. For any of these cleaners/erasers I only use them to help save time clearing stuff. I do not honestly believe they will erase/remove everything so hackers will not still some tidbit of information.

I ran both cleaners side by side to see what each found. CCleaner found a little over 500 MB, Privacy Eraser found over 800 MB. Not being a techie person I was amazed that Privacy Eraser found so much more. Well I let Privacy Eraser do its thing and when finished I ran CCleaner again. it found less than 20 kb of data that needed removing. So I thought everything would be great. I restarted my computer and started my regular running programs again.

Upon opening Firefox (my preferred and favorite browser) I noticed that all my pinned tabs were gone. Nothing was saved. I did go in and unchecked the boxes for sessions & site preference. The two that I do not want changed.

I am wondering why these two things were changed that were suppose to be left alone. Maybe I did not actually uncheck the box. So I opened the program back up and yes sessions & site preferences were unchecked. Maybe there is something different in how browsers are changed. I don't know but just beware that you will lose everything when you Erase everything.

One of my problems after starting this program was where to put the registration code. For anyone else who is looking for this click on Help and you will see Upgrade to Pro. Then click on that and you can add everything.

I do not know if I will keep this program or not. I do know that I would not pay $80 for this program. Sorry developers that price is just a little to steep for me. I mean I am just buying a program to erase some data not MS Office that I can use hundreds of different ways.

Thanks GAOTD and Cybertron Software.

If you want PRIVACY, get a VPN and a GREAT FIREWALL, like Norton, Comodo, etc.. All this does is get rid of footsteps (cache full of tracks as to where you have been, along with COOKIES that have been place on your PC)

CCleaner does a great job of doing this and it is free. The problem with some of these lesser-known tools to clean your PC of any private information, is that YOU COULD LOSE VALUABLE INFO, so MAKE AN IMAGE OR A BACKUP OF YOUR SYSTEM BEFORE YOU USE ANY OF THESE TYPES OF TOOLS.

Such software like this does nothing for your privacy, bur makes it very inconvenience next time you surf the web, I had to search and type everything again to re-visit my favorites sites.
Second, there is nothing in those cookies that identify you.
Third, your web history is permanently stored at your ISP and there you can not erase anything.
Fourth, if you want to feel better install it and think that your privacy is protected, just for your ego, nothing else.

Comment by duke:
"This type of program is unnecessary as windows explorer already built in this tool and does a great job."
Can you please elaborate on this further. Where can I read about how it works.

Get CCleaner + CCenhancer.

A lot better & free.

This type of program is unnecessary as windows explorer already built in this tool and does a great job.

Curious. If this program is truly Win 10 compatible, why wouldn't they include the Edge browser in their listing? Their program caught my attention because even CCleaner seems to have an issue with Edge stating that it needs to close the browser before cleaning.

"It supports popular web browsers, such as Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari and Opera."
Does this mean that it doesen´t work with Maxthon?
A tip: I allways copy what I´ve written so I don´t have to write the same thing again if something goes wrong when sending.

"Privazer" is free and does a full system scan that is incredibly thorough in removing privacy issues as well as a thorough clean up of all activities. It also let's you decide what you wish to remove. A much safer option.

Anyone get this to work?
All I get when clicking setup.exe is failed to connect.
and I tried downloading package several times.

+1 WRT "Privacy Fortress" "Privacy Maximizer" "Privacy ENHANCER" "TRACK Eraser"

Definitely not "Privacy Eraser" - given the intention is opposite
Having now used it, I'd say "System Cleaner" is more accurate.

Installed OK XP SP3 (that last reasonable offering out of MS)
Privacy eraser has changed a lot since I last used it.
Very complete user interface now - pretty informative home screen.
Scans and presents info on what it has found (# of files, size etc)
No idea how you select or de-select the bits you want cleaned or excluded.
All items scanned are ticked so it suggests they all get cleaned - surely there is the ability to leave bits like "recent files" in place if thats what YOU want.

Nothing I tried would select/de-select sub items from the scan/home page.

Similar products offer a selectable tick box for this.
You can right click on a single object and select quick clean and it does appear to just do that object/group.

I selected bits left over from Google Earth and it cleaned just that area ok.

I don't have time to let it destroy my system so didn't let it loose on everything.

Underneath the HOME option there are sub sections - WINDOWS, BROWSERS, APPLICATIONS etc
Under those sections you CAN narrow down what you want the cleaner to look at or leave alone - so these sub areas certainly have selectable buttons.

Offers file shredder, disk eraser, startup manager, uninstaller...usual clean up tools

I didn't see any mention or offer of a backup before it cleans things like the registry - I understand that for "privacy" you probably wouldn't want that....but what if it breaks your registry, or you are not yet sure just what this code will do !

It will take some time to play with this util and see its full potential - I think it does a lot more than a quick glance shows.

I'd suggest having a backup plan (restore point) until confidence is gained in the product.

Other cleaners (some free) like Cleanup, Privazer, Bleachbit seem to offer a no fuss way of cleaning up privacy issues on a system - without destroying it.

Possibly an ok product - will take time to try it out fully - it's more than just a track eraser

- it's more of system clean-up tool too (non privacy related matters, just clutter)

The product is up against some pretty good free offerings on the net - why would you buy this? Good luck at USD80.

Well - in its defence, this does offer a little bit more.

The ability - from this one util - to see a little bit more - eg what add-ons your browser has and to deal with them as you wish very easily - so it gives a slightly more complete system clean-up kit perhaps,along with the usual privacy enhancing track erasers. In the few minutes I used it, it did highlight (clearly) some bits (activeX etc) that I had left over and I was able to easily remove them with this tool.

Ideas?
- offer backup/restore (folk can use a memory stick to take the backup off the system)
- portable version
- make items found on the home/scan page selectable
- explain more - use popup comment boxes or more informative headings

Thanks for the Giveaway - it's not bad from what I can see. Kinda like it even.

For me the best (and free) privacy protection program remains PrivaZer. Maybe not very easy to use, but cleans all kind of traces in depth.

Well, on an over crowded field as "privacy cleaners", I'll say, this piece of software is price tagged in the high end. Now, it's going to be exiting to see, what it finds, when CCleaner (with CCleaner Enhancer), PrivaZer and DiskMax (all freeware) has done their cleaning. I expect, a program like this, price tagged like this will tells exactly, what's selected for keeping my privazy intact. Thanks, to the developer and the team behind GAOTD for letting us try yet another piece of software for free. Greets from Denmark.

PrivaZer : http://www.softpedia.com/get/Security/Secure-cleaning/PrivaZer.shtml

DiskMax : http://www.softpedia.com/get/Security/Secure-cleaning/DiskMax.shtml

Hi. to find some answers to questions and points already raised about today's Software and it's Publisher - you may want to visit this link to previous Giveaway(s): http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/privacy-eraser-pro-3-5-4/ ,and to find out even more - once on that Page click Publisher. Hope it helps.

Been using the free version for about 6 months and it cleans tracks very well. The free version only uses 1 cleaning method but this Pro version offers up to 35 passes to remove tracks. Good stuff.

Just use this wonderful FREE extension for Chrome browser

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clickclean/ghgabhipcejejjmhhchfonmamedcbeod?hl=en

You can decide what cookies you want to save and what you wish to delete. You can easily delete those cookies you do not want.

You can wipe your browsing history.

Where is Karl ?

I'd like to address the publisher of this software:

Your software might be fabulous--I don't know, as I haven't tried it yet, although I plan to check it out later today. However, one thing that you may want to reevaluate is the name of the program itself: "Privacy Eraser" does not inspire the least bit of confidence. For one, it is semantically nonsensical. Your program is attempting to increase privacy, not "erase" it! In other words, privacy is the state we are trying to attain or achieve; it is the lack of privacy (i.e., the state of exposure, vulnerability, etc.) that we want to eliminate, or "erase." I happen to understand what your program seeks to do, however the name contradicts its underlying purpose.

I'm going to assume that English is not the development team's native language. There is, of course, no crime in that. But I see this issue all the time with desktop and mobile software, and I don't understand why a company wouldn't see it as a priority to hire or consult with someone who's conversant in the language of the country where you are attempting to market a product. (And I have some experience in this arena...I used to work at a company developing software with a large clientele in France, and we wouldn't dream of releasing major revisions before they had been vetted by a native French speaker--it was just a normal cost of business)

It's bad enough when ad copy doesn't make sense, but you are severely handicapping sales when the actual product name can be made subject to ridicule. And please keep in mind that even if others intuitively understand what the software does, as I did, just the fact that the product could be named so ineptly drastically lowers confidence in it (and the company behind it), which is particularly unfortunate if the software actually is very good.

I sincerely didn't mean to berate anyone at Cybertron or belabor the point further, but did want to make it clear that the name "Privacy Eraser" is ill-advised. It would be like a bank or financial institution coming out with an investment product called "The Money Eraser," or a diet product entitled "Weight Stimulator." Anyway, I'm no ad-man, but perhaps a step in the right direction would be a name like "Privacy Maximizer", or conversely "Exposure Eliminator." Something like... "Privacy Fortress" has a nice strong ring to it. But I respectfully suggest your team at Cybertron spend some time thinking it over and give this issue some thought.

Anyway, good luck with the giveaway.

Installed and registered, if I recall correctly registration is done by clicking upgrade to pro on the help menu.

A readable but mud coloured interface; under Settings it is worth changing the Update selection which is under General, Automation.

A quick scan found many residual bits of information on my system, unfortunately there was not enough information about each of them to make me feel comfortable in removing them.

At $79 and more in-depth understanding of what will be removed should in my opinion the included and because it isn't I haven't the confidence to use this program.

Be careful when erasing cookies as websites save log-in info in cookies (Fortunately, it appears this software allows one to choose which cookies to delete). Also, much of the data that these privacy erasers delete is not particularly sensitive, like browsing history, search history, etc and some can be helpful to your computer. However, if there are other people using your PC and you want to keep them from poking around and looking at what websites you visit and the like this software can be useful (though the average user usually doesn't have the expertise to do so).

I don't know what this software can do better than CCleaner or other free program ,but I definitely would not buy this for the price they want

If it was portable, i would use it after using others computer occasionally. I don't need such deep cleaning at home.