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Eraser is an advanced security tool (for Windows), which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns. Works with Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Windows 2003 Server and DOS.
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Eraser is Free software and its source code is released under GNU General Public License.
The patterns used for overwriting are based on Peter Gutmann's paper "Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory" and they are selected to effectively remove magnetic remnants from the hard drive.
Other methods include the one defined in the National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual of the US Department of Defence and overwriting with pseudorandom data. You can also define your own overwriting methods.
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| Website: | heidi.ie/eraser/ |
| Version: | 5.86.1.0 |
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This app will satisfy anyone aho is concern about security. A load of options, will both serve the realistic and the paranoid. Deleting data is finally what it says.
Very good.
Sometimes this program acts buggy and creates a full disk (120GB) file when deleting small text based files. I uninstalled this and replaced with CCleaner for file erasing at cleanup.
Eraser is a must have for me. It wipes out old files rather than merely deleting them. It runs efficiently and gets the job done. I've used it for quite a few years.