Which Software is best for securely deleting files and sanitizing hard drives?

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Which Software is best for securely deleting files and sanitizing hard drives? david jones 08-11-2006
Posted by david jones on August 11, 2006, 8:01 am
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Which Software is best for securely deleting files (Gov Standard) and
sanitizing hard drives?

TIA


Posted by Gerard Bok on August 11, 2006, 8:17 am
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wrote:

>Which Software is best for securely deleting files (Gov Standard) and
>sanitizing hard drives?

dban.sourceforge.net/
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Gerard Bok

Posted by Nospam on August 12, 2006, 4:33 pm
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>wrote:
>
>>Which Software is best for securely deleting files (Gov Standard) and
>>sanitizing hard drives?
>
>dban.sourceforge.net/


PGP has a wipe disk option.
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Posted by Admins on August 11, 2006, 7:22 pm
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On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 07:01:41 -0500, david jones wrote:

> Which Software is best for securely deleting files (Gov Standard) and
> sanitizing hard drives?
>
> TIA

Eraser, it's free and we have it in the privacy software section of our web
site, regards
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Posted by Sebastian Gottschalk on August 11, 2006, 8:19 pm
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Admins wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 07:01:41 -0500, david jones wrote:
>
>> Which Software is best for securely deleting files (Gov Standard) and
>> sanitizing hard drives?
>>
>> TIA
>
> Eraser, it's free and we have it in the privacy software section of our web
> site, regards

But you're aware of the limitations of Eraser when deleting files from
an active file system? I might address much more problems than the
common bullshitty programs, but SDelete from Sysinternals still does a
better job. It also has a description of what exactly it does and why it
does so.

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