The article refers to the most popular security tools so far. Also the review considers one of the best security tools, the Shred Agent.

Shred Agent

The security tool with best features so far.

Most users of home computers and IT specialists of companies seriously consider their privacy and their system security. In order to prevent information leakage and intruder's breakthrough the security tool is a must.

This article considers and compares the new security tool Shred Agent with the other security software available now.

What makes the Shred Agent different is that it actually fills the gap that other tools leave. Unfortunately, the most popular security tools: don't handle temporary files; don't catch files moved to Recycle Bin; don't catch any modifications done silently by software; don't wipe files deleted by remote user; don't handle temporary files; don't catch files moved to Recycle Bin; don't catch any modifications done silently by software; don't wipe files deleted by remote user.

After analyzing the market, the software developer Aks-labs decided to make a tool that would cover those holes mentioned above.

First of all this right tool, the Shred Agent, works on a hardware level. When you delete files in Windows, they are not removed physically from your hard disk. Normal file deletion only removes a file's directory entry, but leaves the data contained in the file on your disk drive. There are many tools available which can let others easily recover your sensitive files even after you format your hard disk. But the Shred Agent writes some information directly into the space where the old file was located. This makes it impossible to use any recovery methods to undelete your files.

Temporary and cached data. Really hard ones. Most shredders don't even see those. Meanwhile they can contribute much information to the intruders about you or your business. For instance, temporary files of office wording tools contains a copy of all file text data. So anyone who recover temporary file will have access to your sensitive data. Actually, you need a file shredder that will capture all deletion operation that your system do as well as the temporary files programs create while running. In this case, you won’t need to drop files to file shredder, as it captures all deletion operation and can “see” all file that you do delete. Also, the problem of temporary files will be solved as other program utilize a common system interface to delete files and it will be possible to capture all operations with temporary and cached files.

It'd be great if you could give a feedback concerning the best security tool or shredder, because I really couldn't find anything better than the Shred Agent.