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No, you are not missing anything, and your understanding is correct. Incidentally, Peter Gutmann long ago said, in pretty forthright language, that the 35 pass method he devised had been completely misunderstood and had quite wrongly been represented as some sort of gold standard. The point of...

Clearly, Eraser 5 is better adapted to your immediate needs. But do bear in mind that it deals less comfortably with Win 7 and Vista than Eraser 6, and that it is no longer supported. David

Don't forget that the target machines will need to have .NET (Version 3.5 for Eraser 6.0.9) installed. David

Eraser needs Windows and.NET 4 as well as its own executables to run. So it clearly cannot erase the drive (or, at least theoretically, drives) on which those files are stored. Of course Eraser can erase a drive that contains a Windows installation which is not the one that is running and which...

Eraser definitely won't erase the system drive on which it is running (on any machine). I don't run Eraser on a virtual machine, but Joel has repeatedly said that he does. I think that's reasonable assurance that it will be OK to do anything on a VM that you would do on a normal Windows...

If it's an accepted Trac ticket, it will be implemented in due time, and I would expect that a ticket as old as this one would be implemented in 6.2. But only Joel can confirm this. David

It's all planned now (you can see the changes planned by going to the Eraser home page and viewing Trac). When it will be completed is another question; Joel is currently the only programmer and he has many other commitments. I've given up guessing at dates. There will, I believe, be a service...

Good question. There isn't, I think, any published information relating to using Eraser to remove Chrome clutter. One of the reasons why Firefox is my default browser is that Chrome, like IE, does not allow you much freedom to change where the user data is stored. You can reasonably easily...

Firstly, I agree with you that, particularly now that DBAN is unsupported and effectively obsolete, there is a real need for a version of Eraser that will work in a separately bootable environment. But I think that what you need is not a plugin for a version that integrates into a standard...

Joel is the real expert here, but the following contribution may be of help. As the Eraser Source code is freely available, it might be possible for you to directly invoke the running process which provides the Eraser core. However, there is a firm plan that the next version of Eraser (6.2)...

Re: Conflict between Eraser 6 and Windows 7 administrator ac I cannot think why 'Windows' would block the download, nor can I think of anything in Eraser that would affect any form of logon. There appears to have been some issue in your system (or which came from the download site) which...

Eraser definitely erases all the space marked as free. Your files (or what is left of them) are in space not marked as free. On non-system drives, restore points are usually the prime suspect, but in your case it seems as though some MFT entries are recoverable. If you can, quick format the...

Email programs store messages etc. in database files, so it is impossible to erase individual messages directly using a program such as Eraser. The best you can do with an email program is delete the messages in the normal way, then compact the email folders (as you are doing), and then erase...

You are not wrong. Wholly new code (and managed code at that), and even a different programming language (C#). But the really big change was in the philosophy of the way Eraser is designed to work. Eraser 5 was at heart an application, sitting in a window taking up space on the desktop. That...

Sorry I was misleading. At least the "are you sure" (which I believe is the important bit) is now there. Common sense says that if you are unsure what you are erasing, you should either quit out or press the options button to see the task. Actually, it it occurs to me that the button would be...

If 2580 is working well for you (as it currently is on my reserve machine), that's fine. I hope that you understand my caution about recommending normal users to install a 6.1 build; things are currently moving too fast on the programming front for that to be a safe option. And I agree with...

Thanks from me too. I have included a reference to this issue in the 'Common Eraser Questions' topic in the FAQ. David

It's already in the 6.1 beta builds, but will not be in a full release of the software until 6.2 is released. This may seem like an argument for routinely using a nightly build; the trouble is that, in the nature of things, some of these builds are unstable, and the odd one can do serious...

This may be a font issue. Sunday appears (to the right of Saturday, just where truncation would occur) in both 6.0.9 on my laptop and in the 6.1 build I am using on my main machine. Joel has fixed a font overflow problem in the confirmation dialog (6.1 builds) recently, but I don't know...

Thanks, Pietro. This is useful information, relating to an implementation of Eraser we do not hear about all that often. I think your problem may have arisen because you were using it on Windows Server; the desktop variants of Windows customarily have the relevant version of .NET installed and...