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Lightening:
I use Evidence Eliminator to clean my drive/surfing history, etc  on a daily basis.  I have used it for about a year.  I purchased it after my credit card had been compromised.  I figured I needed some extra protection.   I only buy on-line from reputable places but my credit card number was stolen anyway.  I don't have any porn or anything dubious on my computer and I don't go to those sites so I'm not worried about the wife or law enforcement.   Recently, my credit card number was stolen again.  Both times the bank removed the charges and reissued the cards.  Last time the bank said reputable vendors can have their sites compromised.  This time, it was on a different bank, and they said the bad guys have software generating credit card programs and when they get a hit, they use it until the cards are cancelled.  Evidence Eliminator  www.evidence-eliminator.com   looks impressive and appears to do great things.    So my question is, does it really work?  Has anyone had any experience with using it? 

f0dder:
Hm, "software generating credit card numbers"? Sounds like bull to me, since you need expiry date, card number, security code, and in some cases even the cardholders name.

I've never1 had my VISA exploited due to online shopping, phishing, keylogging or whatever, it's just not very likely to happen if you stick to reputable sites. And your credit card information shouldn't be stored at the shopping sites either once the transaction is done, except for stuff like one-click purchase at Amazon.

It's more likely that a waiter at a restaurant have carbon-copied your card details, imho.

Evidence Eliminator doesn't seem particularly useful to me, it's more of a thing you'd use if you were borrowing somebody else's computer, or if you were a sneaky person hiding things from your wife, etc. If your computer is compromised, it won't help you. If a remote shopping site is compromised, it won't help you either.

1: it was, however, physically stolen once, and charged for USD~150, online purchases. Bank canceled the charges, dunno if the police dismissed the case because it was such a petty amount, never heard from them anyway.

mouser:
Just speaking from my memory of this program, I think i remember that it is a reasonably good program [see SKA's links below].

HOWEVER!!!

It is insanely priced and looks like they are marketing it as something special.  It's really just one of a lot of tools that do the same basic thing, none of which are anywhere near that price point.

And the web page is really hyping it.. But notice there is no forum, no information about when it was last updated, etc.  I wouldn't consider buying it myself.

For a similar free program: http://www.ccleaner.com/
And also: http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/

mouser:
As f0dder says, your circumstance as you describe it, is not going to be helped by this program.  It sounds like you have a different kind of problem.. someone is getting hold of your credit card in some other way -- using this program is not going to solve that.

ps. Even if they are getting it from your computer, it's not through any means that this program will help -- it's more likely to be because you have some trojan program or something installed on your computer, which this program will not find -- you are better off making sure you have a good antivirus tool.

tomos:
dunno whether this is already covered by ccleaner:

Find My Credit Card (freeware)
Find My Credit Card software is intended to show you private info, which you may not know of, and erase redundant information posing hazard to your security.

Perhaps, you have no idea that your computer may contain your private information which you have long forgotten about. These may include your credit card information, login names, passwords as well as cookie files tracking your Web surfing habits. The Find My Credit Card software finds all personal information and suggests its unrestorable erasure. Please bear in mind that no antispyware will save you from information theft. You need to be aware of what and where sensitive information is stored on your computer and purge it on a regular basis thus making information theft useless.
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