We have recently added quite a few new guides and articles to the site as some of you may have noticed. Three of these new additions cover maintaining privacy and recovering accidentally deleted files. We all use the Internet and many of us share computers, and so we like to keep our material private whether or personal reasons, or business reasons. I'm sure we have all accidentally deleted ... [ read the full article ]
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@OneMember, Actually yes :-) Some people on the Finnish version of AfterDawn asked for it already when a translated version of the Eraser guide was added, so looks like brilliant minds think alike ;-)
The only issue with recuva & most other recovery software is if you deleted some data before you installed it then in all likely hood you'll overwrite the data you're trying to get back,don't panic undelete plus (it's free) has two versions an install type & non install which can run from a separate partition or perhaps even a dvd not that i've tried it, there's also pandora recovery (again another freebie)tho that's an install type.Another good recovery agent although not free & most won't want to know is "Nortons protected recycle bin" say what you like about symantec software but make sure you base it on fact & not the all too familiar sheep talk,unlike recuva etc norton's protected when setup "correctly" lets you keep deleted data for any number of days before being overwritten,that said your best defence is to use a RW or RAM disk or a spare partition to save any data your about to delete just in case
Thanks for the new item on the free Eraser, I've been using it for the past couple of days & its now my main secure eraser of choice as I was using Internet History Eraser (you have to pay for that).
The scheduler is neat and I especially like the accurate timeleft info and end report.
You can use this on your normal under-powered office PC as it doesn't require much processing, even on the 35 pass Gutmann. The 7-pass should be enough for most in general.
And is the erase free space of this app one of the most secure you can get for free in terms of simplicity, so I can sell my PC ?
