Eraser 5.87 Beta 1  beta

Publisher's Description:

Eraser is an advanced security tool, which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns.

Latest Changes:

• X64 has NOT been tested. This means that previously reported bugs in x64 may or may not have been fixed (may be fixed as a consequence of other bugs? I don't know)
• The changes which apply are in the readme file displayed in the installer
• Most importantly, support for Windows 98 has been restored

Latest User Reviews:

Reviewer:	srnty	Jun 22, 2008
Version:	5.87 Beta 1
I have thought about buying O&O Safe Erase until I found Eraser. Safe Erase is great too, but very similar on functionality. So why pay for something you can have for free?
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Reviewer:	Doom316	May 22, 2008
Version:	5.87 Beta 1
The best (and free!) erasing program for Windows (including Vista). This project has been around for a number of years and only gets better with each release (except the one which dropped Win98 support!) To reidyn: "carefully selected patterns" refers to Peter Gutmann's method of data erasure. It includes eight passes of psuedorandom data along with 27 data pattern writes. All of this information is available in Eraser's help file. Please read it before the next time you write a review like that. FYI Eraser includes an option to overwrite with pseudorandom data up to 65535 times.
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Reviewer:	reidyn	Mar 14, 2008
Version:	5.87 Beta 1
Here's a tip -- forget about the "carefully selected patterns" if you really care about securely erasing your data. Those "carefully selected patterns" make it possible for someone with tools to infer the original data. The only truly irreversible erasure will be via pseudorandom data, which doesn't leave a predictable pattern to peel off.
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Reviewer:	chronon	Dec 19, 2007
Version:	5.86
it's a great software, but in the past months it has beens hard to deal with it...it's only me or anyone else cannot see the context menu option for Eraser? I'm WinX 64 bits
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Reviewer:	anomoly	Dec 10, 2007
Version:	5.86
I used the recycle bin option "library" choice once and after an immediate reboot my slave drive was read as a raw disk of zero bytes. R-Studio fixed that (12 hours of my time later). I will only use it as a portable ap from now on-period.
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