PC World has a brief review of Identity Finder published by "Velosecure" that might be of interest if the university hasn't given you info on the program, or that might be interesting to others.

WARNING: The site linked may have a couple of "malformed" ads that you'll need to "click down" - possibly more than once. I've found similar "glitchs" at PC World sites with annoying regularity, although the source is, so far as I know, "mostly trustworthy."

As noted in the PCW review, an individual copy is $40, which is a bit much for what it does (and how well it does it). It might be worth it, if you feel you may have been "a bit sloppy" in the past.

The program only works for Win2K and later, and at 10.6 MB it's not exactly a "tiny" utility. The review indicates a free trial version, but that version only tells you what it found - NOT INCLUDING where the stuff is, and does no removal or protecting of what's found. Since the review indicates that the purchased program found several "false positives" you might find after purchase that some, or most, of what the trial version found isn't actually all that sensitive. (I'd trust the review more if there were associated user comments, perhaps.)

Since I haven't used it, or looked at it in detail, this is NOT A RECOMMENDATION. Just passing on the comment I've seen.

An "instruction" for using the program (presumed to be the same one) is also up at Carnegie Mellon Computing Services that does give quite a few details and some good advice on handling sensitive stuff, but this is just an instruction saying "do it," without much to help an individual decide whether it's worth the price of admission.

John