It is sometimes necessary to ensure that files cannot be recovered by normal means. This can for instance be important before selling a hard drive on eBay, installing confidential software on a third part computer (and erasing it afterwards) or after downloading stuff on the Internet that you do not want anyone to find out [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Prevent Restore is a software for Windows that can wipe the entire free space of a hard drive to erase files that might be recoverable otherwise. It has many similarities to another file eraser that goes by the name Eraser. Why would someone walk the extra mile and erase files that already have been deleted [...]

Categories: Security, Software, Windows

I have been writing about a program called Eraser some days ago which I used to delete all file information that existed on the unused space of my hard drives. I verified the results with a recovery program and found out, that Eraser was indeed deleting all file information of files that had been previously deleted on my computer. The recovery software was not able to detect any files after using Eraser on the hard drive.

Categories: Operating Systems, Security, Tools, Windows