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Version: 6.0.7.1893
Size: 8,73 MB
OS: Windows(All)XP/Vista/7
License: Freeware/ FREE
Developer: The Eraser Project

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.

You can drag and drop files and folders to the on-demand eraser, use the convenient Explorer shell extension or use the integrated scheduler to program overwriting of unused disk space or, for example, browser cache files to happen regularly, at night, during your lunch break, at weekends or whenever you like.

Your first thought may be that when you ‘delete’ the file, the data is gone. Not quite, when you delete a file, the operating system does not really remove the file from the disk; it only removes the reference of the file from the file system table.

The file remains on the disk until another file is created over it, and even after that, it might be possible to recover data by studying the magnetic fields on the disk platter surface.

Before the file is overwritten, anyone can easily retrieve it with a disk maintenance or an undelete utility.There are several problems in secure file removal, mostly caused by the use of write cache, construction of the hard disk and the use of data encoding.

These problems have been taken into consideration when Eraser was designed, and because of this intuitive design and a simple user interface, you can safely and easily erase private data from your hard drive.

Key Features of Eraser:

-It works with any drive that works with Windows
-Secure drive erasure methods are supported out of the box
-Erases files, folders and their previous deleted counterparts
-Works with an extremely customisable Scheduler

New in This Release:

-Updated a few missing Italian localisation resources
-Fixed crash on startup for certain computers
-Use proper font handling for menus during theming.
-Made improvements to the progress handling of NTFS’ handling of unused directory entry erasures
-Unauthorised file access messages during cluster tip erasures have been downgraded from error to information.
-Fixed potential blank context menu items in certain locales and locations in the shell
-Fixes bug #285: Multiple custom method
-Fixes multiple localisation issues for users who do not use English builds of Windows and for which no localisation is currently available
-Fixed crash when users erase the root of a drive…

Eraser 6.0.7, 4.7 out of 5 based on 3 ratings