Free Security Soft: File Eraser

While working on an official project, you may need to deal with various sensitive data that needs to remain confidential. In such a situation, to prevent unauthorized access to your important data you may prefer completely removing files from PC after working on them. But, the data you erase is not completely removed from your hard disk, and it can be recovered by using any data recovery application. This possibly could pose to be threat to the security of your sensitive data and cause huge hassles. But, such risk can be avoided by trying out the assistance of Free Security Soft: File Eraser 5.7. The program allows users to permanently erase any data by following the overwriting process several times. The erasing process is simple as you are just required to drag and drop the files/folders onto the eraser. It further supports Explorer shell extension and integrated scheduler for overwriting unused disk space.

Free Security Soft: File Eraser 5.7 supports users with functionality to thoroughly erase the sensitive data traces from the PC. The application comes with two utilities Eraser: Verify and Free Security Soft: File Eraser [On-Demand]. Using the ‘Eraser: Verify’, click on ‘Edit Erasing Preferences’ you can select the Erasing method and overwriting features for erasing files and unused disks space. Now, select the file to be erased, and press Erase for beginning the process. Coming to the Free Security Soft: File Eraser [On-Demand] utility, its left pane provides ‘Eraser’ with On-Demand and Scheduler features, and ‘Explorer’ feature for selecting files or folders to erase. Drag and drop the files/folders from Explorer into the Eraser for completely removing them from the hard disk. You can set new task and schedule the clean up process by making required selections. To erase the file simply click ‘Run’ from right click menu, and on completion the application displays the task report, which can also be saved. Further, you can alter the program settings through ‘Preferences’ to make functions accordingly.

The Free Security Soft: File Eraser 5.7 performs data erasing functions with expertise using the algorithm that you choose from the options it presents. The program is given 4 rating points for its assured date deletion process and its overall ease of use.

Eraser is an advanced security tool, which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard disk 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 making it impossible to recover the data. Other methods include the one defined in the National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual of the US Department of Defense and overwriting with pseudorandom data.