Eraser – Secure Erase Files from Hard Drives 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 Eraser is currently supported under Windows XP (with Service Pack 3), Windows Server 2003 (with Service Pack 2), Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7
Download – Eraser - Heidi Eraser is available in a few flavours, the stable, the beta as well as the nightly builds Stable builds of Eraser are builds in which few, if any, bugs remain in the code and is suitable for use in all environments
Help – Eraser - Heidi Advanced Topics Using the Eraser Command Line Creating Custom Erasure Methods More Help
Selecting Data to Erase – Eraser - Heidi Starting from Eraser 6 1, mounted network drives (with a drive letter) are also displayed in the drop-down list, allowing the unused space erasure of network drives For the unused space erasure of network drives to work properly, knowledge of the NAS is required: only the partition which the drive is mounted on will be erased
Using Eraser – Eraser - Heidi Eraser is an advanced security tool which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your disk drives by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns You can drag and drop files and folders to the program, setting arbitrarily complex schedules and any number of targets, or use the convenient Windows Explorer shell
Eraser Settings – Eraser - Heidi Eraser is a customisable program which allows you to change settings that fit your threat model Nonetheless, the default settings that come with Eraser out-of-the-box are relatively safe for the majority of users Note that for settings to take effect, you need to select the Save Settings button at the top-right of the settings page
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Appendix A: Erasure Methods – Eraser - Heidi Method Name: Number of Passes: Description: Pseudorandom data: 1: The fastest wiping scheme Your data is overwritten with random data (if you use a CSPRNG the data is indistinguishable from random noise )
Creating Tasks – Eraser - Heidi Eraser does not currently check to ensure that the file being erased is the same file that erasure was requested This means that if a file was renamed after the task was created, and a new file created in place, the new file would be erased when the system restarts and this will occur without user confirmation!