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No. We are also talking about the file system and the operating system with which that file system is associated. The behaviour of these very complex system components has major implications for user security. If you overwrite the whole of the disk (e.g. by formatting and it and then erasing...

In a couple of days (hopefully after you have seen this reply), I shall move this topic to the Data Forensics forum, as it really belongs there. Your question begs a lot of other questions, answers to some of which might not be in the public domain. But the really important point is that Eraser...

The answer to your question in principle is no, provided of course that the 5 files you can identify are really your only concern. However, if you have System Restore and shadow copying enabled on the drive(s) where the files reside, and they have had various versions over time, it is possible...

Just so ... You can't use Eraser to erase itself from the system; you can only uninstall it in the usual way. If (for some reason, and I personally cannot think of one) you want to remove all traces of Eraser, you could uninstall it, use a suitable utility such as Tweaknow to compact your...

The errors will be in the log. If you don't know where that is, read the FAQ post called "Getting to know Eraser 6". If you are using Eraser 6.0.x, it might be flagging up errors that aren't in practice errors at all (Joel has changed the categorisation a bit in the development version). Erase...

In Windows 7, you can use the tray 'customise' option to set the properties of each icon. Set the Eraser icon properties to 'Hide icon and notifications', and both will disappear. I also use msconfig.exe to disable Eraser's running process (and icon) on startup; the icon only then appears when...

You should find that, providing you are using the correct version for your OS (32 or 64 bit), the msi file will be handled by the Windows installer. I have never done this from the command line; here is a description of a possible approach which I found on the web. The issue seems to be whether...

Please read the FAQ post "Getting to know Eraser 6" which explains the exact procedure for running Eraser as Administrator, and tells you where to find the task log (in case you have not done so already). If, having followed the procedure, you are still getting error messages (or the program...

That request to close box is normal, but, in my experience, it only shows the Eraser program itself as needing closing. Did you download your copy of Eraser from the official Eraser website? The problem with the update version is also a known bug; I assume it will be fixed in 6.0.11. And apart...

This puzzles me too, because the Eraser code is, as you say, pretty much self-contained. The message almost certainly came from the Windows Installer (which Eraser uses), so the issue may relate more to the installer than to Eraser as such. Which version were you trying to install? If it was a...

If you search the forum on the term WinPe, you will find discussion on using Eraser in that environment. The key point is that you need the .NET framework (v3.5 for Eraser 6.0.x, and v4 for current nightly 6.1 development builds) to run Eraser 6. David

When things go wrong with an Eraser installation, sometimes no amount of reinstalling on its own will work, and you have to do all you can to remove the traces of the previous install. Search this forum on the term "brute force" for information on how to do this. So far (including testing some...

Re: Cleaning freespace on my iPod (pseudo-random) reports er iPods have a very peculiar formatting arrangement, and Apple is well known for its sometimes rather cavalier interpretation of standards it has not created (FAT32 is a Microsoft-owned file system). It may well be that the iPod is just...

Yes that's probably a good approach; in fact we are thinking on rather similar lines. Do the dummy names have to be unique in any given folder (bearing in mind that they are in unused file table entries)? David

You could try. Remember that Eraser needs access to .NET to run; I don't pretend to know how or whether this works remotely. David

Re: Wipe Free Space and MFT - Remaining drive contents affec Eraser overwrites the file table entry with random data as part of the file erase. David

You are correct in your conclusions. In the nature of things this is quite unavoidable, and therefore will not be flagged up as an error in future versions of Eraser. The likelihood that sensitive personal data resides in the cluster tips of protected system files is, when you think about it...

I'm not sure I understand the logic here. How were the drives differentiated in this regard, and could issues be resolved by user selection? My concept was that the user would provide one or more file name templates, and that Eraser would use these to generate file names (perhaps just...

Ah. Well, we all have your health and well being at heart ... :) David

Re: Eraser 6.0.x autostart Eraser 6.2 will have an option not to start Eraser with Windows (as Eraser 5 did). You don't need to use Task Manager. Just right-clicking on the Eraser tray icon and selecting 'Exit Eraser' will do the job. Also, as you have discovered, with recent versions, you can...