I came across this wiping tool for Windows, CCleaner

Filed under:Tools — posted by Consultant on May 14, 2008 @ 8:22 am

The tool has a free version and takes care of wiping a significant amount of information anytime it runs. You can configure it to run everytime Windows starts (it would be nice if the action triggered everytime Windows shut down as well)

It currently cleans the following:

  Internet Explorer
Temporary files, URL history, cookies, Autocomplete form history, index.dat.
  Firefox
Temporary files, URL history, cookies, download history.
 

 

 Opera
Temporary files, URL history, cookies.
  Windows
Recycle Bin, Recent Documents, Temporary files and Log files.
 

 
Registry cleaner
Advanced features to remove unused and old entries, including File Extensions, ActiveX Controls, ClassIDs, ProgIDs, Uninstallers, Shared DLLs, Fonts, Help Files, Application Paths, Icons, Invalid Shortcuts and more… also comes with a comprehensive backup feature.
 

 

 Third-party applications
Removes temp files and recent file lists (MRUs) from many apps including Media Player, eMule, Kazaa, Google Toolbar, Netscape, MS Office, Nero, Adobe Acrobat, WinRAR, WinAce, WinZip and many more…
   

You can find it here, it won’t bug you and you can configure the wiping to be better than a simple round of zeros - so far it’s been so good.

http://www.ccleaner.com/

Looking for more useful tools to have handy!

Hope that helps

Mobile phones security and encryption - BlackBerry yuck!

Filed under:Technology — posted by Consultant on @ 8:17 am

Hey there,

I’ve been looking for a mobile device that will let me install gpg/pgp and send/receive encrypted e-mails from a mobile device to anywhere. While looking for such a thing I took a look at BlackBerry and the service they offer - I have someone close who uses such a device to send/receive e-mail including his gmail accounts.

That’s when I learned about the Blackberry Internet Service account. Which is what you need to create online in order to configure (online) your login information for the e-mail accounts that you want to access. Which means that you end up giving your password to BlackBerry so they check the e-mail for you and forward it to you.

I then found out that pgp.com does actually offer a PGP package that can be installed in a BlackBerry but it looks like it’s a very expensive solution (each license is about 250 usd and you need to buy a minimum of 10, not to mention you can’t simply install it a mobile device and go solo, you need to have an enterprise server solution installed somewhere) which means that you end up spending lots of money and integrating more PGP technology in your environment.

Instructions on how to configure your e-mail for your BlackBerry are here:

http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=KB04553

And the site for PGP blackberry support is right here:

http://www.pgp.com/products/pgp_support_package_for_bb/

So I would say forget about BlackBerry. I’m going to look at other mobile solutions, some include Windows Mobile meaning that I should be able to install GPG/FireGPG and workaround a way of using encrypted e-mails from there.

A friend of mind mentioned the HTC Dual touch (http://www.htc.com/UK/)

We’ll see what I find..

Cheers



image: detail of installation by Bronwyn Lace