I see little need for Evidence Eradicator: it is extremely expensive, especially given that almost all of what it does, and everything that it does that is of value, is done equally well or better elsewhere for nothing. The generic cleaning facilities (system, user, browsers, many recent file sets) are unnecessary when OmniWeb and Safari, among others, have options built in to clear caches, cookies and typed data with a couple of mouse operations or even automatically on close and Onyx, which I strongly recommend, cleans all manner of caches and logs for free; there are other free applications offering similar functionality. When Safari RSS eventually comes out with its "private browsing" mode - where user data is not even saved to the hard disk - many EE options will become redundant.

The only facility which is not also provided by free software is of marginal utility - the cleaning of some applications' recently used file lists and similar. The application set is patchy: "AppleWorks 6 Recent Files" but only "MS Office Font Cache" is a typical example. And, for example, anyone using a IM application other than MSN Messenger is not covered at all.

The other big problem with the package is that, despite the suggestions made by its Web site, local deletion can never be enough for the truly paranoid as originating IP addresses and URLs are stored in server logs. (Which is probably how "employees fired for surfing the Internet" are caught).