Zer0 Alternatives

Zer0 is described as 'User friendly file deletion tool with a high level of security. With Zer0, you'll be able to delete files and to prevent file recovery by a 3rd person' and is an app in the security & privacy category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Zer0 for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Self-Hosted and PortableApps.com apps. The best Zer0 alternative is Eraser, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Zer0 are DiskGenius, Ashampoo WinOptimizer, Darik's Boot and Nuke and HDShredder.

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    Active@ Kill Disk is disk eraser software for secure formatting of hard drives without any possibility of following data recovery.

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    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    BCWipe data wiping software enables you to permanently delete files selectively so that they can never be recovered or undeleted. BCWipe embeds itself within Windows and can be activated from the Explorer FILE Menu OR from the context (right-click) menu OR from BCWipe Task...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    With Context-Shredder you can destroy your sensitive files. Choose from simple destruction or shredding by Peter Gutmann. Users can create deletion tasks, overwrite available free space or destroy disk drives.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    AppleXsoft File Eraser is a user friendly and powerful data wipe software that allows you to permanently delete files on hard disks, USB drives completely. excluding any possibility of future recovery of deleted files and folders.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    If you want to delete some data permanently making it impossible to read again you can choose Kernel File Shredder Software which deletes file permanently so that no one can recover that file again even using data recovery tools.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    File Eraser Pro is the safe and reliable data erasure software which can completely erase your private and sensitive data with Safe and certified data erasure standards including HMG Infosec Standard 5, German FOFIS, DOD 5220.22-M, U.S.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Over time, many very private or business-critical files accumulate on a computer. What happens to these files when you no longer need them? Moving to the Recycle Bin is far from enough to really protect your privacy.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. File Shredder icon
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    File Shredder is a FREE and powerful application to shred and permanently remove unwanted files from your computer.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Lowvel overwrites data with zeroes, i.e. performs so called zero-filling of a storage device. It should be noted that after such zeroing, neither a data recovery software nor a data recovery service can recover data off the device.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    When you normally delete your files in Mac OS X, the operating system is only forgetting where those particular files are placed, while the data still physically remains on the drive. Beginning with Mac OS 10.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  11. EraserDrop icon
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    EraserDrop Portable is an easy-to-use secure data removal tool. It is a drop target (a floating icon on your desktop) that you can drop files onto to quickly erase them so they can not be recovered. EraserDrop does away with the standard .

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
     
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