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 XP/Vista/7, Windows Server 2003 and Server 2008. Eraser is Free software and its source code is released under GNU General Public License.
Most people have some data that they would rather not share with others - passwords, personal information, classified documents from work, financial records, self-written poems, the list can be continued forever. Perhaps you have saved some of this information on your computer where it is conveniently at your reach, but when the time comes to remove the data from your hard disk, things get a bit more complicated and maintaining your privacy is not as simple as it may have seemed at first.
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.
Eraser Features:
• It works with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008.
o Windows 98, ME, NT, 2000 can still be used with version 5.7!
• 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
Changes in Eraser 6.0.6:
- Progress dialog improvements
- Deal with cluster tip erasure failures more robustly
- When a user does a folder erasure, delete all empty subfolders of the target if they are empty after the erase regardless of whether the folder should be deleted when empty
- Fixed the crash which appears after Erase has been running for a while
- Create a Hide button for the progress dialog
- Relabelled tab order for the progress dialog
- Friendlier error message used when access is denied erasing a file cluster tip.
- Moved the task list to a file in the Local Application Data folder (%LOCALAPPDATA%\Eraser 6)
- Allow users to filter log messages by severity
- Fixed crash when "unformatted" drives are installed on the computer. Thanks to Xanashi for reporting the bug.
- Clean up files meant for cleaning up the MFT after we are done with it. Thanks to mcmaster76 for reporting the bug.
- Log viewer performance optimisations
- Specify the minimum size of the log viewer so that the dialog will remain useable.
- Fixed a crash when right-clicking a drive in the Computer folder. Thanks to mcmaster76 for reporting the bug.
- Fixed restart-run tasks.
- Made the forced closure of file handles optional
- Added first draft of the Eraser documentation
- Allow eraser to be called from the Run dialog
- Created a new type of task - Manual tasks which run only on demand. The distinction between manual and run-once tasks are that tasks meant to run only once will be run and if it completes successfully the task will be deleted. Manually run tasks will never be automatically deleted.
- Fixed crash when erasing FAT file systems.
- Certain file names which could not be erased from the context menu previously can now be erased.
- Allow computers without network adapters to run Eraser
- Disk performance counters can now be used as an entropy source
- Cleaner NTFS MFT erasure.
- When deleting folders reset all the access modified and creation times.
- Implemented FAT cleaning
- Implemented delete key in the Scheduler. Thanks to Xanashi for suggesting!
- Updated the Visual C++ runtime to the latest one (2008SP1 with ATL security fix) This fixes hangs when using the Eraser context menu.
- Installer bootstrapper improvements
- Do not stop running a task if one target does not exist.
- NTFS MFT Cleaning improvements.
- Allow many files to be dragged into the Eraser Window.
- Erase MFT resident files before expanding the file to clear the cluster. This makes sure MFT resident files do not move around the MFT.
- When selecting too many files to erase from the Eraser context menu in Windows Explorer display a helpful error message instead of failing without any reason.
- Fixed Eraser being unable to exit when started at logon.
- Allow an elevated instance of Eraser to be controlled remotely by the same user. This allows the user to use the context menu extension even when Eraser is running as an Administrator.
- Fixed crash when deleting multiple tasks
- Added Italian localisation support
- Compile Warning fixes
- Don't check the SFC filelist if the given path name is longer than 255 characters
- Implemented Italian localisation
- Fixed build process for developers without code signing certificates
- Rearranged the Italian settings panel to fit longer strings
- More Italian localisation work
- Display the language name in the .NET framework language for all Eraser translations for uniformity
- Display untranslated strings in debug builds as "untranslated" but use the English string in release builds
- Fixed updater crash
- More Italian localisation work; added support for Shell Extension translations
- Implemented Shell Extension translation switching (controlled from the Eraser Settings page)
Size : 8.6 MB
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