Data Wiping and Aevita Erase Hard Drive Software for Windows

File Wipe
$20 - Global Web Monitor

File Wipe is an industrial strength file destruction utility. It also removes Internet explorer history, cookies, temp internet files. Cleans INDEX.DAT files on your computer which also keep tracks of your IE activities. It removes Adobe Acrobat reader history, Microsoft Paint recent files list, start menu run history, Windows Media player recent files list, WinRar history list, and the WinZip history list. File Wipe implements two of the DOD standards, DoD.5200.22-M(3) & DoD.5200.28-STD (7) for the safe removal of files from your hard drive. DoD.5200.22-M (3) The unused space or file or disk is wiped using Department of Defense (US) standard 5220.22-M (3). This provides a high-grade of data wiping filling the unused space or file with a special digital pattern through 3 passes. DoD.5200.28-STD (7) The unused space or file or disk is wiped using Department of Defense (US) standard 5200.28-STD (7). Provides high-grade data wiping filling the unused space or file with a special digital pattern through 7 passes.

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Data Wipe Utility
$45 - Data Restore

Hard disk data wiper software provide facilities for permanent deletion of deleted secret information, confidential files, sensitive reports and personal records. This destructive and non-destructive tool offers services to completely delete your temporary internet files, cookies, history, cache, auto complete and typed URLs. Secure data cleansing tool enables you to easily and quickly wipe your all the erased files folders. Disk cleaning application entirely cleans up your used and unused hard disk space. Evidence eliminator completely eliminates your all the information from storage devices by overwriting with system generated random numbers and ensures deleted data never to be recovered. Data erasure software cleanup all the stored links of recently open documents, started programs, search results and mapped network devices. Data cleaner totally removes your activity traces of various application files like Microsoft access, word, paint, power point, excel, management console, media player and WordPad. Data wiper wipes all the system files like recent system registry traces, clipboard contents, recycle bin, windows event log, network folder and administrator temporary files.
Features:
* Disc removal utility permanently wipes multiple files folders and directories.
* Tool provides user friendly GUI graphical user interface with help option to understand how to erase hard disk data.
* Disk space cleanup manager wipe your used and unused clusters which are linked or not linked with any FAT or NTFS supported file system.
* Data sanitation software destroys your information through overwriting.
* Supports all type of removable storage media like USB flash pen zip drive and memory stick.
* Runs under Windows 98 ME NT 2000 2003 advance server XP Vista and Longhorn operating system.

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AEVITA Erase Hard Drive
$29.95 - AEVITA Software Ltd.

When you give away your hard drive or sell off your old computer, you are basically "licensing" the third party to access your old e-mail, private customer information, corporate secrets, and other sensitive data. Even if you have deleted all data from your computer's hard disk and reformatted the drive, with the proper recovery tools, someone could retrieve your previously deleted files and even gather your personal information from the disk space of your computer.

If you want to completely destroy your sensitive data on the disk, without leaving a chance for someone to recover the dataa, use the AEVITA Erase Hard Drive utility. When you delete your data using AEVITA Erase Hard Drive, all traces of the data are removed from the disk so that the data cannot be retrieved even by using disk recovery software. Your private information will be 100% gone, and your data will be completely destroyed.

AEVITA Erase Hard Drive uses the industry-accepted government and military strength algorithms to ensure complete data wiping and assure you of the utmost security of your sensitive, personal or confidential data. The program works with all standard hard drives and floppy disks and operates independently of the operating system or any data that may exist on the target disk. Best of all, it is quick, easy-to-use, and compatible with any PC independent of the operating system on the
target disk.

Once a disk has been erased with AEVITA Erase Hard Drive, no data recovery tools, regardless of their level of sophistication, will be able to recover any data that previously existed on the disk.

Don't leave a chance for someone to recover your data - destroy your sensitive, personal or confidential data beyond recovery now!

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DriveScrubber
$29.95 - iolo technologies, LLC

DriveScrubber permanently and securely wipes away data from drives, to prevent confidential information from falling into the wrong hands when selling or donating a computer. In addition to thoroughly erasing all drive contents, DriveScrubber can now also wipe only the free space of a drive, to delete the remnants of deleted files. With this process, existing files, programs, and the operating system are all left in intact, but any deleted files are unrecoverable. In addition to preparing a computer for sale or donation, this feature allows DriveScrubber to be used for regular security maintenance.

Many people believe that when they delete a file, it is permanently erased. It is not. In actuality, the data within the file still remains on the drive, and evidence that the file existed still remains on the drive. This is because of how an operating system saves and deletes files. When a file is deleted, its reference is removed from the file allocation table, but the data that made up the file still remains on the drive. The space occupied by that data is marked as "free space" and is available for overwriting by other newly saved files. Until another file's data is saved over it, the deleted data remains on the drive. Even formatting a drive does not erase data: formatting erases file allocation information and performs other housekeeping functions for data storage, but formatting does NOT erase data.

Many people donate or give away their computer, not even realizing that their private information is easily recoverable. Even though you can't see the files (for example, through Windows Explorer), someone using easily available tools can still access files and view their contents. This poses a significant security risk. Since reformatting a drive does not completely erase data, protection from readily available programs that recover data is a necessity.

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ID Data Wipe
$47 - Fastlink2

ID Data Wipe is a handy utility meant to safely erase files from your PC. It represents a Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP shell-extension and you can use it to permanently remove data, preventing it from being restored or accessed to by a third party.

Main Features:

- Wipes data you want to permanently delete
- Frees space by removing traces of deleted files
- Permanently erases all deleted files
- Cleans you Recycle Bin
- Prevents deleted files from being restored

Detailed features:

- ID Data Wipe has a wide range of features to choose from. You can have your files wipe-deleted, you can free-up space while deleting or even cleaning the Recycle Bin.
- Offers the delete-wipe option, letting you delete and wipe files and folders using a pop-up context menu in an Explorer Window.
- Provides the possibility of gaining additional space on your disk by permanently removing deleted files. ID Data Wipe allows you to wipe traces of old deleted files, cleaning your disk of junk files.
- Cleans automatically the Windows Swap files, when running the 'Wipe free disk space' command. ID Data Wipe will delete unnecessary old files that only take space on your computer and preventing it from running smoothly.
- ID Data Wipe thoroughly cleans your Recycle Bin. It completely wipes its content, removing all traces of deleted old files.
- Prevents deleted files from being restored by detecting any activity of the Windows ME 'System Restore' application. It disables it at your request avoiding restoration of deleted files and folders.
- ID Data Wipe gives you the opportunity to check the folders' content before deciding upon deletion. It allows you to access them to better decide if you wish the permanent wipe.
- ID Data Wipe is a simple, easy-to-run application, with a friendly graphic interface and requires minimum space on your disk to operate.

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DISKExtinguisher
$39.95 - LC Technology International, Inc

Typically, data deleted on the computer is not truly deleted. The file stays on the disk until it is overwritten by another file. Until then, those files or file fragments can be recovered. If the data is sensitive, the recovered data could be exploited, causing damage much like a missed ember in a fire. When you delete your data, you want the data totally extinguished.

What if you wanted to sell, donate, discard, or return your computer? You would need to make sure to eliminate your confidential information such as:

- IDs and Passwords
- Social security number
- Financial Documents
- Human resources data
- Tax Records
- Corporate Trade Secrets
- Bank account information
- Customer databases
- Credit card numbers
- And more...

DISKExtinguisher is based on our unique BIOS (Basic Input Output System) technology, which is fast and reliable for accessing disks.

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