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Evidence Eliminator - What has your experience been?

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nudone:
evidence eliminator - more like porn eliminator. well, that's what a friend of mine used it for when using his parents computer.

Darwin:
There's also CleanCache, which I have used on and off for years - very good, very stable. Even allows you to secure delete data. Unfortunately, in chasing down the link for this posting, it appears that the homepage is now defunct. Still works like a charm, though...

Waybackmachine is our friend....

Ralf Maximus:
The best advice I was ever given about credit card theft:

Assume your card WILL be lifted at some point.  It's just a fact of life today.  Use it often enough and it will happen.

So focus not on prevention but on selecting a card with decent identity theft protection.  For example, CapitalOne and American Express both have superb policies, and seem to err on the side of the customer when things get strange.

f0dder:
Oh yeah, I always forget about the american-style credit cards, since I'm used to... debit cards? Ie., cards that are linked to a bank account with money, instead of giving you credit.

For online shopping, how about this idea: get a non-credit credit card :), and link it to an account you only keep a smallish amount of money in - and make sure the account can't be overdrawn.

Ralf Maximus:
Oh yeah, I always forget about the american-style credit cards, since I'm used to... debit cards? Ie., cards that are linked to a bank account with money, instead of giving you credit.
-f0dder (October 28, 2007, 03:26 PM)
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Oooh, I've got one of those too.  I love debit cards!   Beer runs are ever so much more enjoyable when you can tap into the main account at 2330.  :-)

Fun larceny story: About 10 years ago, some mysterious charges show up on our Amex account.  $4100 for laptop computers purchased at a store I usually buy a lot of crap from.  Needless to say, those were not my purchases.

I called American Express up to dispute the charges, and they suspended them immediately pending investigation.  I assumed some clerk at the electronics store had kept a copy of my card for personal use.  Nope!  Instead, what happened was way weirder.

Apparently somebody at work had borrowed my wife's credit card from her purse, photocopied it, then returned it.  Then went on a binge.  How did we track down the nefarious mastermind?

In addition to the $4100 laptop charge: $900 for shoes at Nordstroms, $600 for cosmetics at Macy's, $700 for ladies clothing at Target.  (Target?)  Clearly not our normal spending habits.  So obviously some super-sophisticated AI at Amex spotted the weird demographic spike and flagged it as unusual... right?

Nope.  The crazed supervillian signed HER OWN NAME to the purchases, which we recognized immediately as a co-worker.

Case solved!  They were quickly pronounced "incredibly guilty on all counts" and got the electric chair.  Actually, I never did learn what happened... as soon as Amex satisfied itself as to our innocence, the Cone of Silence descended and we were excluded.

But the co-worker in question never showed up for work again...

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