For reasons of anonymity and confidentiality, you fear inquisitiveness.
You lend your PC to a friend, want to sell retail it, or more simply to erase the traces of your activities indeed.
Know that to throw your documents to the hamper or to format the hard disk to erase your data will not be enough. The function of deletion of Windows and the most part of the tools of cleaning indeed do not erase stocked information. An expert or whatever user advanced can recover them.
To erase indeed files and ancient information, Eraser is the ideal utility.
Free as part of a family use, its interface is in English, but the wordings of menus are rather simple.
Tool of modern security, Eraser allows you to take away absolutely the sensitive data of your hard disk by rewriting them with models several times chosen with care.
Models used for rewriting are based on the article of P. Gutmann:
" The destruction reassured by data from magnetic memory and from solid condition ".
These models were chosen to take away magnetic rubbish efficiently from the hard disk making impossible to find data.
Main used methods are the rewriting of data pseudo unpredictable.
You can also define your own methods of rewritings.
You either and to develop your files and your files towards the correction pen at request,use extension shell to Explore (Run order of the menu Task) or in throwing integrated program planner, program rewriting (function Scheduler).
With Eraser, any abolition is indeed irreversible.
Warning :
A task of daily cleaning of the not used disc space is created by default.
If it does not interest you, think of deactivating it.
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