Reviews of Eraser

1. 
   Earwicker

   Reviewing 6.0.5.1114 RC5 (Jun 13, 2009)

   Hmm, not sure you've improved this. Causes the system to crash when I try to activate the shell (right mouse click in explorer), and generally seems clunky. Also, it all a bit conspicuous for a privacy/security tool. I'm glad this excellent project is being maintained, but please prefer substance over style!
2. 
   cltx99

   Reviewing 6.0.5.1114 RC5 (Jun 11, 2009)

   I've been using eraser for years too. I'm not jumping into a new version as my old version works so well. The rating is for the version I use, not the new RC. I use Eraser 5.3
3. 
   us3r

   Reviewing 6.0.5.1114 RC5 (Jun 10, 2009)

   I've been using Eraser version 5.86a for six months or so without any major problems. I've just tried this new version on virtual machine and it crashed twice and it uses like 50 MB of ram even when it's not doing anything. This new version seems to be very poorly programmed. The guy maintaining it rewrote most of the code like he claims and to be honest it seems he f@ck it up.
   
   'Posted by: Joel, 10 June 2009, 7.00pm, +800 GMT
   
   Having written almost 25,000 lines of code since the start of our project, v6 was due for a code review. So that's what I did, reviewed the code with the help of a static code analysis tool (FxCop for you developers out there :) ) and fixed all sorts of inconsistencies in the code. This should result in slightly higher performance and better behaviour when Eraser is in use. See the full announcement.'
4. 
   emanresU deriseD

   Reviewing 6.0.5.1114 RC5 (Jun 10, 2009)

   RC = "Real Crap"
5. 
   jeck

   Reviewing 6.0.4.875 RC4 (Feb 5, 2009)

   I have used earlier versions of Eraser without problems, however, I do have to admit that this current version is unstable enough that I do not feel comfortable letting is do anything. It is quite possible that interference from my firewall and even possibly my other security software may have had something to do with it, but I just don't have the time to troubleshoot it. For now Eraser has to go. Too bad; Eraser had and still does have promise. I will examine it again later.
   I very rarely give a program a 1 rating but I couldn't justify anything higher. It was so unstable and had so much problem with it that I really didn't get out of the starting gate and I didn't trust letting it do anything.

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