Eraser is an advanced security tool (for Windows), which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns.
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fotzenlecker
Comment • over 10 years ago • 5 users agree • 0 replies
Since version 6.x, Eraser became a useless piece of bloat, a CPU and RAM hog, that requires to run all the time in the background in order to work for the system integration (recycle bin and context menu). It needs almost 30MB in idle state for that. Also, users cannot choose the shredding method on the fly anymore as it was in the past versions. Now they first have to go to preferences of the main window. This really sucks and I uninstalled it. Now using version 5.87 again, which is slim and fast and does the job much better.
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• Negative comment • about 9 years ago • 5 users agree • 0 replies
• Negative comment • over 8 years ago • 2 users agree • 0 replies
I really prefer Open-Source, but in this case I stick with the freeware alternatives WipeDisk and WipeFile. Slight, easy, safe, and it asks me at least twice, if I really want to wipe the specific folders/disks (just in case).
[Edited by Apaosha, October 16]
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• Positive comment • about 4 years ago • 0 replies
Great selection of overwrite algorithms. You need to use the correct one for your drive type. Some are for old and outdated drive technologies.
Since version 6.x, Eraser became a useless piece of bloat, a CPU and RAM hog, that requires to run all the time in the background in order to work for the system integration (recycle bin and context menu). It needs almost 30MB in idle state for that. Also, users cannot choose the shredding method on the fly anymore as it was in the past versions. Now they first have to go to preferences of the main window. This really sucks and I uninstalled it. Now using version 5.87 again, which is slim and fast and does the job much better.
happy i found the old version there: http://sourceforge.net/projects/eraser/files/Eraser%205/5.8.8/
I really prefer Open-Source, but in this case I stick with the freeware alternatives WipeDisk and WipeFile.
Slight, easy, safe, and it asks me at least twice, if I really want to wipe the specific folders/disks (just in case).
[Edited by Apaosha, October 16]
Great selection of overwrite algorithms. You need to use the correct one for your drive type. Some are for old and outdated drive technologies.