Eraser (64 bit) v5.86a
Open source
Vista / Win7 / Win8 / WinXP
Vista / Win7 / Win8 / WinXP
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.
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.
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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Keywords:
eraser
delete
wipe
destroy
data
hard
drive
License type
Open source1
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Date added
09 Jan 2008
Downloads
13,149
File size
9.46 MB
(< 2min @ 1Mbps)
Operating systems
Vista / Win7 / Win8 / WinXP1
1License and operating system information is based on latest version of the software.
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