Shadow Defender Questions

I just bought Shadow Defender and I have a couple of questions about it.

Where exactly is the shadowed data stored? I cannot find any impact of it on c:.

I'm using JKDefrag, and I suspect that there is some sort of conflict between it and Shadow Defender; data is constantly being defragmented. Any way around this?

 

I've used it with Jk Defrag without any problems(On Vista). I'm not sure what you mean by not finding any impact on C:
As far as I know you won't be able to 'see' the virtual folder other than the amount of space used by it.

After reading again your post, did you mean using JK Defrag in shadow mode? If that's the case, no defragmenter will ever work in a virtualized state.

 

Pete:
Would you elaborate? Did you mean when in shadow mode or in general? By auto pilot, do you mean scheduled defrags or something like stealth patrol (if you know PerfectDisk), i.e., a mode where the defragger runs itself when it detects a preset amount and/or duration of idle time?

 

Just use JKDefrag once a week while not in shadow mode.

 

How does Shadow Defender treat the page file? I ask because BCWipe has the abililty to encrypt the page file. Would that be useful here, or should I not exclude the file from SD?

 

Hi Peter, Does Shadow Defender only delete the file, or does it erase the file? There was some talk awhile back about Returnil and how it leaves a large file on the hard drive (even using memory caching) that could be retrieved and examined forensically. Coldmoon (to his credit) finally admitted that in their forums and said they hope to add an option to erase that file at reboot. So the program is good for security, but not necessarily for privacy. Is Shadow Defender any different? My guess is it is only deleted as you wrote, and again, good for security but not for those privacy, ie: who think it "wipes" everything away on reboot and nothing in the previous session is irretrievable.

 

I think to erase the virtual volume would make a reboot very long, unless it would be carried out in the background while in unprotected mode. One could also use Eraser every now and again, although time would again be an issue.