Drive Scrubber (+giveaway!)

By Tina on 6th October, 2009 | Filed under computers & internet, contests & giveaways

This giveaway is now finished!

Congratulations to the winners!

busy05
peta
chont
erin
trish_mylittledrummerboys

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“74% of discarded PC hard drives contain private data that can be easily read and recovered… even if the drive has been reformatted”

That’s pretty scary, hey?! It’s so easy to think that when you toss files, photos or other documents into the recycle bin and empty it, then it’s REALLY deleted. But in many cases, it’s not true! It only takes basic knowledge of PCs to recover it.

So how do you protect your privacy? Drive Scrubber, created by iolo technologies.

I was recently sent a 1 year subscription of Drive Scrubber to try out. Each 1 year subscription can be used on up to 3 PCs or laptops and how’s this for assurance – it meets and exceeds the U.S Department of Defence standards for data removal. That’s some heavy duty removing skills!!

Drive Scrubber is easy to install and allows me to:

Permanently erase files, pictures, documents, credit card info, bank statements, passwords and more
Securely wipe all drive data before selling, donating or recycling my PC
Restore my drives to like-new after virus or spyware damage
Wipes PC drives, flash drives, cameras and more

It also protects in 3 ways by wiping the entire drive, wiping just the free space or cleaning and restoring drives that have been infected or damaged.

One wipe with Drive Scrubber and your drives are as good as new.

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THE GIVEAWAY

iolo technologies are giving away a 1 Year Drive Scrubber Subscription to 5 lucky Mummified Times Five readers!

To enter, all you need to do is tell me why you would like to win…easy peasy! (compulsary)

For extra entries:

blog about this giveaway with a link back to this post (and leave a comment here with your link)
mention this giveaway on Twitter (and leave a comment here with the link to your tweet)

Good luck!

Contest finishes 27 Oct 2009 @ 6pm

Open to Australian residents only.

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trish_mylittledrummerboys

I have secrets ...that I'd rather keep secret LOL and sounds easier than smashing the hard drive

erin

i would like to win because i had NO IDEA that all that stuff stayed on there

chont

We run a building design business from home with 3D graphics as well as doing all the accounting & online banking from home. We thus have to keep our PC in very good condition otherwise they can corrupt our work files & have to start again from scratch. This of course affects our work flow & cash flow.

peta

I am thinking I need this because I am completly computer challenged and I think I need all the help can get to protect my computer.

busy05

WOW! Is all I can say! This product sounds absolutely fantastic! We are in the process of starting a small business and this would be a extremely valuable tool.
Apart from security software we need this type of software to keep all our banking and information files safe, particularly important is the wiping of camera and flash drives etc for work beyond just at the desk.
As a business we seem to be more likely to be targeted by the people with viruses etc so to be able to restore everything to good as new would be a god sent.
There is a lot of great software available but this is above and beyond what I have seen in some stores.
Also with business we are more likely to be upgrading our computer more regularly too so being able to know that our private date is safe and not being able to fall into the wrong people's hands would be one less worry.
Thanks for just a wonderful giveaway.

busybbee05(at)yahoo(dot)com(dot)au