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Privacy Guard For Mac

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It not only enables you to remove privacy threats on your Mac, but, as an after effect, it also helps you free up used hard-drive space. #Clear cache  #Protect privacy  #Free disk space  #Cleaner  #Remover  #Scanner  

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Privacy Guard is a straightforward and efficient OS X application that can help you to free space on your Mac’s hard-drive and get rid of possible privacy threats.

In order to achieve this, Privacy Guard uses a fast algorithm for secure deletion and scans your Mac’s system for anything that can compromise your privacy. In order to use Privacy Guard, you will first need to select your Mac’s Home Folder, but you can also manually select specific folders that needs to be scanned.

After this is done, Privacy Guard will display a list with all the apps that represent possible privacy threats and the total amount of junk files within them. From this point, you have a couple of available options: you can either use the switches to keep or to delete the files from specific apps or you can click the information button from each app’s right side and get a detailed list with all the files that need to be deleted.

Of course, not only can you choose to keep or delete files within specific apps, but you can also choose the exact file types (cache, cookies, downloads, forms, history, last session info, recent searches, web storage, webpage icons) that can be deleted or kept from any of the app’s present on the list.

Once you have decided what to keep and what to delete, a simple click on the “Continue” button is all that’s necessary for the scanning process to start. One thing that’s worth mentioning is the fact that, despite its user-friendly interface and overall efficiency, the detention process is not what you would call fast, so you should expect more than 5 minutes for the deletion of approximately 1 GB or junk data.

If you are a privacy orientated user and you also want to make sure that unnecessary files don’t clutter and slow down your Mac, then Privacy Guard should definitely find a place in your Mac’s Applications folder.

What's new in Privacy Guard 1.1:

  • optimized our scanning algorithm. even faster and more efficient!
  • fixed all memory leaks. older machines may have experienced memory leaks and we've fixed them for you!
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Privacy Guard 1.1

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  runs on:
Mac OS X 10.8 or later (Intel only)
  file size:
3.3 MB
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Privacy Guard - The application features a user-friendly interface and reduces the whole scanning and deletion process of privacy threats to a couple of clicksPrivacy Guard - After the scanning process is over, you can manually select which specific files types should be deleted from every specific appPrivacy Guard - You can choose to delete or keep files such as cache, cookies, downloads, flash cookies, forms, history, last session info, recent searchers, etcPrivacy Guard - screenshot #4Privacy Guard - screenshot #5Privacy Guard - screenshot #6
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