Description
Selling an old PC or handing a drive to someone is stressful when you know a deleted file can come straight back with a recovery tool. Emptying the Recycle Bin or formatting only wipes the directory entry, the data itself is still sitting on the disk. Secure Eraser does something different: it overwrites the actual location again and again until the original content cannot be read back.
It puts five overwrite standards in one dropdown: random-value overwrite, US DoD 5220.22-M E and ECE, the German industrial standard BSI-VSITR, and the Peter Gutmann method, all in line with the NIST SP 800-88 guidance. You pick a level by how sensitive the data is, with no need to study which algorithm is harsher. Every erase can be logged, so when you need to show that data was destroyed you can open the report. This is the portable build, which unpacks and runs without installing anything. There is a free Standard Edition for personal use, and the Professional Edition costs $29.90.
File and folder shredding:Add files or whole folders to the list, choose an overwrite level, and destroy them for good, Recycle Bin contents included.
Drive and partition wiping:Overwrite a whole disk or a single partition before a computer is handed on or scrapped.
Free space wiping:Rewrite the unused areas of a disk to destroy data that was deleted the ordinary way but not yet overwritten.
Registry cleaning:Tick the categories to remove dead entries such as ActiveX and COM objects, application paths, autorun items, file extensions, shared files and help files that point at things that no longer exist.
System cleaning:Clears temporary files and browser traces, also destroyed by overwriting.
Erase reports:Operations can be logged on request and reviewed in a reports page for your records.
Many languages:More than twenty interface languages ship in the package, switchable from Settings.
It puts five overwrite standards in one dropdown: random-value overwrite, US DoD 5220.22-M E and ECE, the German industrial standard BSI-VSITR, and the Peter Gutmann method, all in line with the NIST SP 800-88 guidance. You pick a level by how sensitive the data is, with no need to study which algorithm is harsher. Every erase can be logged, so when you need to show that data was destroyed you can open the report. This is the portable build, which unpacks and runs without installing anything. There is a free Standard Edition for personal use, and the Professional Edition costs $29.90.
Features
File and folder shredding:Add files or whole folders to the list, choose an overwrite level, and destroy them for good, Recycle Bin contents included.
Drive and partition wiping:Overwrite a whole disk or a single partition before a computer is handed on or scrapped.
Free space wiping:Rewrite the unused areas of a disk to destroy data that was deleted the ordinary way but not yet overwritten.
Registry cleaning:Tick the categories to remove dead entries such as ActiveX and COM objects, application paths, autorun items, file extensions, shared files and help files that point at things that no longer exist.
System cleaning:Clears temporary files and browser traces, also destroyed by overwriting.
Erase reports:Operations can be logged on request and reviewed in a reports page for your records.
Many languages:More than twenty interface languages ship in the package, switchable from Settings.
