Intresting.... Indeed!

In fact I coudn't try this tool (because of my OS) bıt there a lot of commecials program on the market.

And most pf them include really good features like (panic mode wipe), wipe freespace with several standarts, overwrite for 28 times etc.

But it could be good for practice and free use.

There are computer forensic tools like Encase that can still retrieve data after its deleted and written over by these tools. I didn't believe it myself until I saw Encase pull back data from a drive that had been formatted at least 5 types. And data retrieved was from the original partion of the drive.

Aside from an NSA erase (which takes hours) its really hard to get rid of the data on a drive.

phase

haven't tried it yet , is it command line , and is there any other command line eraser , because also some people wanna have max security after getting cmd shell and erasing logs for example .. logs can be undeleted , so what i really really need , is two small command line programs to erase and undelete the deleted files

The best way to know you've removed all the data from a drive is to have a handy mini-incenerator next to your desk. Panic, pull the drive, drop it in the incinerator. Job done.

-niko

Incenerator would do nicely, but it's not as much fun as a shotgun.

PGP Enterprise have some great wpe tools.

Wipe Freespace : upto 28 times.

Also Steganos has a good tool to delete files permanently, but you know there is no exact and abolıute way to delete all data. Big guys can read it everytime

... Uh.. I'm almost positive that if I was programming something like this, I'd program in a backdoor of some sorts. If I was microsoft, I'd refuse to release a program that would allow hackers/potential enemies to destroy all of their data and get off the hook with a single keyboard shortcut command.

agreed, microsoft would not release a program such that when anybody needed to get rid of incriminating evidence all they had to do is press a button.

im not that quite paranoid but windows washer 5 by webroot can delete files, same with boostXP.

AnalogX makes a great a file delete application, where you chose the # of passes, and it's very basic, but it does exactly what it's meant to, tried to restore data with popular recovery software, failed! (good news for the shredding app, eh?) www.analogx.com to get it. (free)

Also a good program is Evidence Eliminator. It overwrites the sectors of your hard disk with junk. So a file recovery program would retrieve junk.

Also, i dont think that the "big guys" can always retrieve the data on your hard drive after you used like 3 or 4 programs that destroy the data.
Maybe , they can retrieve the file names but the file will be corrupted and not readable.

I personally wouldn't trust evidence eliminator period. Simply because of their marketing scheme. I've never used it, but if a company has to spam it's worth... chances are it's bogus.

Any company that spams me in order to get me to buy their product is probably going to get the "thumbs down". There are a few exceptions and times where others outside of the company *cough Norton cough* have tried to pull this off. But for erasing data, the steganos suites are good.

Just a note, as always, if somebody wants to find out what you've been doing, they probably will. On a lighter note, I'm a big fan of the shotgun approach.

Ciau...

digitalk2003

hehe yeah the shotgun approach does have a certain success rate!!!

heh yeah blow away whoever comes through that door...

oh microsoft but a usefull tool, i love 0 bytes rythmen