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| Lisa
D. selected DiskDeleter Download version |
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| Lisa had a three-year-old
computer that she decided to upgrade. After noticing
a good deal in the local paper for a new computer she
decided to sell the old one instead. But before she
could do that she faced a dilemma: what to do with
all her personal information on the hard drive? |
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She knew that even if
she deleted it all, someone could still bring it back and for
erasing it permanently, she would need to overwrite data
three times. Concerned
with the possibility of identity theft she searched on the
web for a solution, but all the products looked the same
and she could not make up her mind. After a friend suggested
her to download DiskDeleter from www.bluestsoft.com,
she tried it and figured out that how easily she could make
it work, just double clicking
the program. She decided
to follow her friend's suggestion and easily cleared her
whole drive. |
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Lisa now owns a new computer and
a piece of mind that no one will ever be able to bring the
data back on the one she sold.“With DiskDeleter there is
no need to burn a CD or making a floppy. With a couple of
simple instructions I could delete the drive, verify its
content with before and after snapshots, and sell my computer
with a piece of mind.” |
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| Tom
W. purchased DiskDeleter ZW |
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| Tom was a computer novice.
He bought a new computer and was thinking about giving
his old computer to his friend. When Tom spoke with
his friend about it, she suggested he erase the data
on the computer, but not spend too much time or money
on it. |
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Tom understood that
for erasing data permanently he would need to use DiskDeleter,
but knowing that the data on the computer was not very important
to him, he wanted to just run a routine that would clear
the drive. DiskDeleter offered him two options. One was to
do a full delete, which required DiskDeleter to overwrite
the data more than thrice. The other option and the most
economical one were to overwrite it once. Tom understood
that for erasing data permanently,
it is important to overwrite data three times, but he also
understood that by overwriting data even one time, it is
impossible to recover the data by any data recovery software
products. |
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As Tom was a computer beginner,
he used the computer mostly for Email and Internet. He had
Email data, his friends’ addresses, Internet data, etc.,
and did not have critical information such as credit card,
bank account, etc. Besides, he would give the computer to
his friend, not to a complete stranger. When weighed the
risk, he felt confident that to delete the data he could
get by erasing it only ones. Tom chose DiskDeleter ZW, which
cost just $9.95. |
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| Mark
K. chose DiskDeleter Floppy version |
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| Mark had a 10-year-old desktop
computer and wanted to recycle it securely. When
he was thinking about throwing it away, his friend
Kevin who is computer savvy said to him, “Mark, you’ve
got to think about your personal data stored in this
old computer. You may feel that it is garbage, but
you never know if someone could use it against you.
You should remove the hard drive and break it in pieces
or use software, which deletes hard drive data” Mark
did not want to bother with the hardware, so he decided
to buy the software. |
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When he was going through
the data on the computer he realized that he had hidden files
on it that he forgot about and definitely wanted gone. Upon
Kevin’s recommendation, Mark decided to use DiskDeleter.
In the DiskDeleter product line, Mark found three options, DiskDeleter
Download, DiskDeleter CD, and DiskDeleter Floppy that supported
DOD 5220.22-M (US Department of Defense standards). Mark’s
old computer had a floppy device, so he finally decided to
buy DiskDeleter Floppy, which cost $19.95 |
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| Carol
I. bought DiskDeleter Download version |
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| Carol was a heavy user and
had five PCs at home. She wanted to donate one of them.
Carol knew what she should do before donating her PC,
so she bought DiskDeleter Download version, which cost
$39.95. The reason
why she did not choose DiskDeleter CD or Floppy version
was because she did not want to burn a CD or create
a Floppy and also Download
version came with CD and Floppy versions anyway. |
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Carol ordered DiskDeleter
and downloaded it to the PC. She double clicked the execution
file and followed simple instructions to erase her PC’s data
securely. Then she sent the PC to NPO. |
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After a while, Carol also wanted
to improve the performance of one of her other PCs. The PC's
performance became significantly slower over time and it
seemed infected with a virus or spyware. The DiskDeleter
license allowed her
to use DiskDeleter on multiple PCs she owned, so
Carol decided to erase the PC’s data and to start over. She
unfortunately forgot where she saved DiskDeleter, but that
was not a problem since when she purchased DiskDeleter she
automatically received a one year subscription to the DiskDeleter
website and could download it again if she needed it; she
erased the PC's data, reinstalled Windows XP and restored
the its performance. |
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| Dave
H. chose a Site License |
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Dave was an MIS manager at
ABC Company.
His boss told him to erase all data when any one user
would change computers. His company had 500 computers
and he was wondering how he could do this efficiently.
After doing some research, Dave found DiskDeleter. |
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There were two important
points for him to consider in choosing a product. One was "ease
of use" and the other was "easy access". Regarding "ease
of use", he didn’t want to train employees on character-based
products. In that respect, DiskDeleter
had an intuitive wizard interface and minimum training was
required to educate the user. About "easy
access", since DiskDeleter
supported Client/Server environment, Dave could store DiskDeleter
on his company's server and it could be accessed from any
client computers with access to the file just by double clicking
an icon. His company also
had computers that were not connected to a LAN, but since DiskDeleter
package came with a Floppy and CD versions, he
had no problems with those either. |
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Dave found the right product, but
he still had another concern. The company had multiple offices
and there was a possibility that he had to take care of more
computers than just the ones at his location. He contacted BluestSoft
sales and decided to
select a Site License that
provided unlimited use capability. |
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