Data Shredder - File Shredder and E-mail Shredder For Outlook Software for Windows

TZ Shredder
$19.99 - Track Zapper

When you delete a file from Windows it just mark the file as deleted in file allocation table, but the data of the file is still on your hard disk, Windows does not physically remove deleted files from your hard disk. Emptying your Recycle Bin does NOT protect you at all. Your sensitive files can be recovered, even after you format your hard disk! This powerful program helps you shred important files & folders so that they cannot be restored & prevent attempts to recover sensitive deleted files from your hard drive by data recovery or forensic software. Shredder allows you to purge, wipe & erase data with methods that far exceed US Department of Defence standards for file deletion (DOD 5220.22). Easily automate the cleaning process with batch files, shortcuts and scheduler. Completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns. Overwrites all bits in selected files, including cluster slack space, with binary 1's, 0's, and/or random bit patterns. Supports complete folder deletions including subfolders. Shreds disk free space so you can even use shredder to destroy previously deleted files on your hard drive. Drag & Drop files or entire folders Delete even if the file is locked! No trails are left of any compromising or confidential information. Easily choose the number of overwrites according to your security ambitions. The higher the number the less the probability that even finest magnetic tracks could be detected. The Department of Defense (DOD 5220.22-M) recommends seven passes for top security. You can also shred files by right-clicking on them from the MS Windows Explorer or on the recycle bin and selecting the shred item on the popup context menu.

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WinUtilities File Shredder
$39.99 - YL Computing, Inc

WinUtilities File Shredder is a utility that securely deletes your files so they can't be restored using recovery software. When you delete a file using the conventional Windows delete method, the file is not actually destroyed. Windows simply acknowledges the file is no longer needed and considers it free space. The deleted file will exist in a recoverable state until it's over-written with other data. When you use WinUtilities File Shredder to shred a file, the file is over-written with with random bytes before it's deleted. If the file was ever restored using recovery software, it would be worthless. WinUtilities File Shredder provides a new fully customizable System Shredder. Using the System Shredder, you can easily group browser cache, cookie, and history files to be located and shredded.

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BPS Data Shredder
$15 - Bullet Proof Soft

BPS Data Shredder for Windows provides an easy, permanent way to securely delete files, folders and disk free space. BPS Data Shredder is an easy to use 'drag and drop' application. The 'confirm before shredding' feature allows you to require confirmation before shredding to give you the opportunity to cancel before you've shredded an item. This is important since the item is not recoverable once it has been shredded. Key features include: This tool is integrated with the Windows shell and you can directly start shredding by right-click on the selected folders/files and selecting 'File Shredder' from Windows explorer, an easy to use 'drag and drop' interface, the option to shred shred files, folders, disk free space; the 'Confirm before shred' feature, a configurable overwrite pattern and number of overwrites by using sophisticated overwriting algorithms which obliterate latent data on your hard disk, making your deleted files irrecoverable, even by expensive equipment, a Scheduler and live update to keep upto date with the latest releases, Shred Recycle bin, BPS Data Shredder lets you permanently remove files and folders from your system easily without the possibility of data recovery

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History Shredder 4 Windows
$29.99 - A N T I VIRUS

Why do you need WinShredder? Because your Windows Recycle bin only deletes the file that you see ... not the actual data on your harddrive. Until the file location on your hard disk is overwritten many times, the files can be completely recovered using many available computer programs, or even simple computer commands. Deleted files are the first thing hackers, privacy thieves, and other computer experts look for when they are trying to recover sensitive information from your computer or discarded disks. Also, employers routinely search for 'deleted' files to discover information about employees.

WinShredder gives you the ability to erase your internet history, permanently delete your files and protect your privacy.

With technology (Patent 5022.22M ) approved for use by both the U.S. Department of Defense (D.o.D.) and the U.S. National Security Agency (N.S.A.) you are getting military-grade protection.

WinShredder comes with 1 year free updates and free technical support.

With WinShredder you'll be able to permanently erase:

deleted files
chat transcripts
audio and video files
temporary internet files
image files (all formats)
clipboard data
search histories
passwords
internet history
cookies

WINSHREDDER FEATURES:

Unlimited Shredding
Most competitor products limit the user to only 1, or to a fixed number of data wipes when shredding. WinShredder permits an UNLIMITED number of data wipes. Want to shred that file 10000 times? No problem!

Unlimited 'Do Not Shred' Folder Locations
A serious flaw in most competitor products is the inability to protect important folders from accidental shredding. This disastrous problem is solved with WinShredder. WinShredder permits an unlimited number of 'Do Not Shred' folder locations to be defined, protecting them from accidental shredding.

Drag and Drop to the Desktop Trashcan
WinShredder supports all Windows drag and drop features.

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System Purifier
$26.85 - JitBit Software

Jitbit System Purifier is an all-in-one file shredder, privacy eraser, disk cleaner, free space wiper/eraser and startup programs manager.

... "FILE SHREDDER" - "file eraser" securely deletes files from your hard disk. Files erased with the file shredder are physically deleted and cannot be recovered or "undeleted" with disk recovery tools. The algorithms used in the file shredder are compliant with the US Department of Defense 5220.22 M sanitizing standard. Use the file shredder to completely erase critical information from your disk. System Purifier is fully integrated with the Windows shell: erase files from any windows-compatible file manager (e.g. Windows Explorer) using a context-menu.

... "PRIVACY ERASER" - erases your activity tracks and other unneeded data from your system. It protects privacy by cleaning up the tracks of your Internet activities and computer activities and contains multiple eraser tools like: IE address box typed URLs eraser, Recent Documents folder eraser, temporary (temp) folders cleaner, internet history eraser, web browser's cache eraser, IE forms auto-complete cleaner, open/save dialog history eraser, FireFox cache cleaner and many more.

... "JUNK FILE FINDER" - scans your drives for unwanted useless and temporary files, left by various applications. Use it to free disk space and optimize system performance.

... "STARTUP MANAGER" - controls windows startup programs. Find out what software starts automatically on boot, review the list and delete the unnecessary items.

..."FREE SPACE ERASER" - since deleted files are only marked as deleted, after some time your hard-drive's free space is not actually free - it contains lots of scrappy data. To prevent this data from being recovered, you have to erase the drive's free space.

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Master Shredder
$24.95 - SecureAction Research, LLC

Master Shredder is a professional files wiping utility. Files deleted by this software cannot be recovered by any third party software, even by special hardware devices (analyzing remanent magnetization of hard drive's surface).
Master Shredder can securely delete your important files using 18 wiping algorithms, including U.S. DoD 5200.28, NATO Data Destruction Standard, U.S. Air Force Standard, U.S. Army Standard, Russian GOST P50739-95 Data Destruction Standard and others.
It destructs files not only on FAT16 and FAT32 formatted hard drives and other media, but it includes special algorithms for NTFS formatted hard drives, it recognized and destructs NTFS compressed and encrypted files.
Integrated with Windows: it is possible to shred files from Explorer Context Menu, by drag-n-dropping files to master shredder's recycle bin located on desktop, by calling Send To context menu item. User-Friendly easy-to-understand Graphical interface designed to hide the complexities of encryption technology from the end user.

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