Eraser is an advanced security tool, 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.

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 the magnetic remnants from the hard disk.

Other methods include the one defined in the National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual of the US Department of Defense and overwriting with pseudo-random data. Furthermore, with Eraser you have the possibility to define your own overwriting methods.

Here are some key features of "Eraser":

• · Secure drive erasure methods are supported out of the box
• · Erases files, folders and their previous deleted counterparts
• · Works with an extremely customisable Scheduler

Requirements:

· Windows Common Control 4.72

Change Log:

• · Fixed documentation errors when adding new tasks
• · Fixed fatal errors when erasing files which the current user do not have access to
• · Fixed updater with the change in server
• · Fixed bug in monthly schedules
• · Implementation suggestion by Jackjack that the title of balloon tips should be "Task Completed" and not "Task Executed" for clarity in #388.
• · Document working around UAC to erase unused disk space.
• · Fixed bug in scheduler where tasks will only be run once per Eraser start up even if the schedule should have been triggered
• · Fixed memory leak when the Unlocker feature was enabled.
• · Fixed some cases where file unlocking would still not allow a file to be unlocked for erasure.
• · Fixed a situation where by a task would be initiated from the Explorer context menu and when Eraser was not running. Under some situations, the task will run but the UI will not reflect that.
• · Fixed a crash when using the Unlocker code from Windows Vista

Developer:

The Eraser Project - 8.7MB (Open Source)