Working with important files and folders can give you a lot of headache. You have to think about protecting the sensitive data in order to prevent unauthorized access to your files and data theft. I have wrote way lot of data protection methods on this blog. You can check my blog archive.
Not only you need to protect your sensitive data when you are still using them, but also when you don’t need them anymore. Many people have the same thinking that the deletion of files using the recycle bin is enough. The data are gone forever and no one going to find them. If you think the simple deletion of files in Windows will destroy the data, then you are wrong. Your file will remain on the hard drive until another file is created and overwritten the old file. Any data recovery tool will restore the deleted sensitive data.
I believe now if you wish to delete any sensitive data such personal details and passwords, you want to be sure that it will be deleted permanently without an option to recover the data. Then, you need Freeraser.
Freeraser is a free portable secure file-deletion tool and data wiping utility that enables you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by using a complicated procedure of filling the actual content with random data.
To delete a file, drag and drop the file to the Freeraser’s virtual bio-hazard barrel. A message will pop up, click Continue.
The content will beoverwritten 1, 3 or 35 times (according to settings) and only then deleted. This process ensures that the original content of the file will be never recovered.
Freeraser can function on three levels:
- a fast destruction (standard 1-round filling of random data)
- a forced destruction (3 rounds of filling according to DoD 5220.22M standard)
- an ultimate destruction (35 rounds of filling with data according to Guttman algorithm).
The more powerful destruction is performed, the more rounds it takes and the more time it needs.
If you’re worried that someone might restore the sensitive files you’ve deleted, give Freeraser a try.
