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14 out of 16 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: Eraser 5.7
"This program has very good erasing capabilities."
Pros: this program is one of the best sensitive file erasing programs i have ever seen. This program can allow you to set your wiping at 1 pass (not very secure), 3 passes (secure), 7 passes (extremely secure and government standard) and 35 passes (super extremely secure, longest wipe.) The program can quickly and securely wipe out files of any size in a matter of minutes.
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Just want to ask a question. Will it completely erase trail version of a download so that you can download the same trail version over and over again?
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Normally I found the 3-pass, 7-pass, and 35-pass to take forever to erase my drive, so I set mine to fill my free space with Ones (writes "FF" in every sector), and when erasing files, writes "FF's" then "00's". Now maybe that'll keep people fron being nosy.
I don't care what they say, but they forgot that you can actually define your own erasing pattern!
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Please explain why 1 pass is "not very secure". Who can defeat it? Not data-recovery companies. You can test this yourself. The government? If they can or can't, they're not saying. So you are making things up.
The 35-pass Gutmann wipe isn't any better than a handful of pseudorandom passes, and Peter Gutmann himself says this. The whole point of the 35-pass method was literally a "shotgun technique" to cover a variety of hard drive encoding methods, even though only one such encoding method is in use on any given hard drive. In other words, it just frees you from worrying about which *specific* technique to use--it's not better in absolute terms.
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