Avoid Digital Disasters: File Recovery Software Resurrects Deleted Files, Photos, Music, and E-Mail From Virtually All Digital Devices
Digital technology allows users to delete an unwanted image still in the camera, something that millions of novice photographers are learning. Today's photographers can prevent the heartache of lost photos with an easy-to-use software tool like Search and Recover to find and recover deleted digital photos.

Proprietary new StrongScan® from iolo technologies helps users locate and identify lost files even months and years after being deleted using improved search algorithms. Enhanced file pattern searching locates and recovers even the most difficult items by scanning byte-by-byte. Data recovery is designed to be fast, safe and reliable.

The Search and Recover Version 3 powerful tool arsenal is designed for both advanced and novice users to quickly and easily find and recover deleted, destroyed or damaged files from DVD-R, CD-R, and other optical media. The software works with digital cameras, and with music players, compact flash, memory sticks, smart media, hard drives, and other portable media.

Users can recover pictures, videos, songs, e-mail, documents, spreadsheets, or any other PC file or folder with the easy to use interface -- even after the Recycle Bin is emptied. An easy-to-use wizard recovers important items in three steps; select the file types to find, select where to look, and instantly recover the items found with one click.

"iolo has experienced tremendous success with Search and Recover, the most robust tool for PC users to find and reassemble data," said Scott Yenor, iolo chief information officer.

iolo products are available through leading retailers across the United States, Canada, and the UK. 30-day downloadable trials are available at www.iolo.com.

(From Download Squad) Consumer Reports Ranks Microsoft AntiSpyware #1
"Consumer Reports has come out with antispyware rankings for the top tools in this niche, including Ad Aware SE Plus, Allume Internet Cleanup, Computer Associates eTrust PestPatrol 2005, McAfee AntiSpyware, Microsoft AntiSpyware (beta), Spybot Search & Destroy, Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet Security 2005, and Webroot Spy Sweeper. Microsoft's AntiSpyware program came out tops, even though it is still in beta status. It ranked "good" for detection, tying with Webroot and Computer Associates' offerings (none achieved a rating of "excellent" for detection), and ranked "excellent" for ease of use, something that no other AntiSpyware package in the list was able to accomplish. Although it is a prevention tool with no detection and removal functions, Javacool Software's Spyware Blaster product is notably absent from any list of top spyware protection utilities.

Hope for Water-Logged Computers DriveSavers Offers Data Recovery for Hurricane Katrina Victims
NOVATO, CA. (August 31, 2005) – DriveSavers, Inc. the worldwide leader in data recovery services, is offering data recovery service for computers and storage devices that suffered water and physical damage from Hurricane Katrina.

"Over the years, we’ve helped many of our customers retrieve critical information lost to devastation from fires, hurricanes, flooding and physical destruction." said Scott Gaidano, President of DriveSavers. "Even if a computer's been submerged in water, we can still recover its' data. It's devastating enough to lose a home or business, and we're dedicating ourselves to doing all we can to help."

DriveSavers is offering to heavily discount its data recovery service to help victims of Hurricane Katrina who have lost their critical files and backups. The company is reducing its service fees by one third and waiving its typical $200 attempt fee. The discount will remain in affect until November 30th 2005. Find out more on our DriveSavers page.

Security Experts Tracking New Sasser Variant
With two variants of the Sasser worm already infecting computers through a recent vulnerability in Windows, security experts now are tracking a third version of the worm and an exploit that attacks the same flaw.
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FREE SOFTWARE TO PURGE
Resolve is the name for a set of small, downloadable Sophos utilities designed to remove and undo the changes made by certain viruses, Trojans and worms. They terminate any virus processes and reset any registry keys that the virus changed. Existing infections can be cleaned up quickly and easily, both on individual workstations and over networks with large numbers of computers.


Shootout At The Disk Repair Corral
What should you use to fix a corrupted Apple Mac hard disk? Disk expert David Shayer ran detailed tests comparing DiskWarrior, Norton Utilities, Drive 10, DiskGuardian, and Disk Utility – which do you think won?
Apple Online Resources
Added a directory of Apple Online Resources for emergency help.
Hard Drive and Data Recovery Glossary
Added a Hard Drive and Data Recovery Glossary of common terms and definitions.
Free Antivirus Software for Windows
FREE Security Software – Computer Associates is offering free antivirus protection to Windows users for one year. There are plenty of other free virus and security applications available online, but this is the first time a major, commercial anti-virus application has been released that is totally free of charge.
Protect Your Files or You’re Going to be Very Sorry Someday… by Bob LeVitus
"There are some things in life you can be sure of, like death and taxes. And there are some things in computing you can be sure of as well, including the harsh reality that your hard disk will cease to function someday."
Backing Up is (not) Hard to Do by Bob LeVitus
"The software and media you use for backing up are far less important than remembering to actually do it. The best software/hardware/media combination in the world is worthless if you don’t use it regularly."


If you have suffered data loss, we recommend DriveSavers for data recovery services.
Visit our DriveSavers page to learn more and to receive a 10% discount.