Eraser 5.8.7

Eraser 5.8.7 is the perfect solution for users who needs 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 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 U.S. Department of Defence, and overwriting with pseudorandom data. You can also define your own overwriting methods.

Why use Eraser?

• 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.
• Save 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.
• Recover data when you 'delete' the file, the data is gone by studying the magnetic fields on the disk platter surface.
• Easily retrieve it with a disk maintenance or an undelete utility before the file is overwritten
• Solve  problems in secure file removal, mostly caused by the use of write cache, construction of the hard disk and the use of data encoding because of this intuitive design and a simple user interface, you can safely and easily erase private data from your hard drive.

Major Features:

1. Works with Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP (32/64),Vista (32/64), Windows Server 2003 and DOS.  It works with any drive including IDE, SCSI and RAID, and CD-RW's.
2. Uses the Guttmann (Default), Pseudorandom Data and US DoD 5220-22.M methods.
3. Erases Files and Folders.
4. Erases Files/Folders that were only previously 'deleted'.
5. Erases all hard drives using 'Darik's Boot and Nuke' method.
6. Erases Index.dat on Reboot
7. Erases Encrypted Files and Drives.
8. Erases FreeSpace on 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP and DOS.
9. Erases contents of the Recycle Bin.
10. Erases Compressed Files and Drives.
11. Erases Network Files, Floppy Disks, CD-RW, DVD-RAM, DVD-RW.
12. Erases Windows Temporary Files.
13. Erases Internet Cookies.
14. Erases Paging (swap) file.
15. Erases Internet Cache.
16. Appears as an 'Erase' option on the Context Menu of  Windows Explorer and Recycle Bin.
17. Comes with an Eraser Scheduler that allows you to create user-defined tasks.
18. Defeats File Recovery software applications Hardware tools.
19. Supports FAT32 and NTFS Files Systems.
20. Eraser is easy to use and comes with a dedicated support network.