Driver cleaner

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scorpio1950 Author

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Driver cleaner

My wife passed away in July 2006 and I have just started to use her computer again. Got a pop-up ad about a "driver cleaner", to erase any extra internet sites visited that clearing cookies, cache, and history won't completely delete. Since some of her medical information is there I would like to get rid of all those extra "ghosts" as they mentioned. How do I obtain a "driver cleaner". Can't find one when I did a search in Apple Store. If I can download it from a Mac site please let me know. I have OS X 10.4.9. Any help would be appreciated.

e-mac, Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Posted on Mar 13, 2007 10:57 PM

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Answer 1

PrDm

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Mar 14, 2007 6:47 AM in response to scorpio1950

That driver cleaner is essentially spam for a windows program that won't work on your mac and probably doesn't work to well on a windows machine either. You can ignore that and just delete the data files that contain the medical information. If you are really concerned then you can Secure Empty Trash from the Finder/File menu. Unless your machine is accessible to the public you really have no worries. When it is time to give away the eMac then you can erase and overwrite the harddrive so ALL information is gone for good.

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scorpio1950 Author

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Mar 15, 2007 10:32 PM in response to scorpio1950

Thank you so much for your help. I found secure trash and put it there for now. And since no one will ever have access to this computer I won't worry. Again, thank you for your prompt reply.

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