Eraser
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 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
Eraser is Free software and its source code is released under GNU General Public License.
The patterns used for overwriting are based on Peter Gutmann's paper "Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory" and they are selected to effectively remove magnetic remnants from the hard drive.
Other methods include the one defined in the National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual of the US Department of Defence and overwriting with pseudorandom data. You can also define your own overwriting methods.
For Users
How to get help when stuck with problems using Eraser.
For Beta Testers
- Installing Beta releases of Eraser
- Our Data Collection Policy which will explain what we will do with information submitted via the BlackBox? Crash Reporting system
For Developers
- Eraser v6 Coding Conventions
- Building Eraser v6 from source
- Translating Eraser v6 to another language
- Debugging nightly builds (also applies to releases which are built using the build server)
- Testing Eraser builds
- Releasing Eraser builds
