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Eraser keeping a history in the schedule is quite a privacy leak. Anyone who wants to go snooping would look in the Eraser history to find names of erased files ! Admittedly they would only retrieve the file names such as “My secret document.doc” but that is evidence / proof that the user had...

Hi Blewby :) I don’t have Vista 64 so I cannot test it for you. If you think it is a genuine bug could you please join the Eraser Trac and report your bug find. Eraser Trac Thanks.

Yeah, I always use the Microsoft redistributables. :wink:

Hi spy1 Wow, you are a hardcore Eraser freak !! :shock: ........ :lol: Can I ask why you choose the 7 pass ? Have you seen or heard of evidence that a single pseudorandom pass is insecure ?

Hi I would suspect this is the problem.

Great ! :D Please keep checking this thread for new versions. If you find any bugs please help Joel by creating a ticket here. Thanks. :wink:

Why not use the official version ?? :shock: Joel’s version I linked to ? :?

Hi The latest Eraser portable is here.

Here in England at the end of a year the Queen gives out new years honours (knighthoods) etc. The idea is that ordinary people who do remarkable things during their life, who would normally go unnoticed receive some recognition for their efforts. I thought it would be fun if Eraser did the...

Windows 95 eh ? :roll: If you want to completely wipe the entire disk then DBAN might be better for you. Be warned though DBAN will wipe the ENTIRE disk so if you want to keep anything then you need to back up ! :shock:

Excellent post Joel, well done. :D I understand FAT will die out but I was mainly concerned about flash drives etc. But as you say these will eventually get big enough to use NTFS. However this bit. Gives me hope, I know just the person to ask about this sort of thing ! I will get back to...

Hi Chris :D Nice to see you posting on the forum ! You are doing some great bug hunting on the Eraser Trac ! :wink:

Hi index.dat :) You could use DBAN, that will wipe everything on your drive. So make some backups first !!! :shock:

Hi Lifeblood :) You might do better creating a ticket on the Eraser Trac. Check my signature for the bug report link.

Erasing voodoo !! :lol: I have campaigned about this for quite some time now. A single pseudorandom pass will be very secure on everything with the possible exception of very, very old hard drives. If you are extremely paranoid then you could make 2 passes. USB flash drives need a total...

Hi Shirley Use this version until V6 is out of Beta. Also Whodunit and Shirley please report any bugs you find with V5 or V6 on the Eraser Trac here.

Hi talex5 ? I edited my previous post while you were posting, have you read the bit about DBAN ?

Hi Installer / setup pretty much the same thing, sorry I wasn’t clear on that ! :oops: I have just come back to this thread, what are you wanting to do talex5 ? Are you wanting to Erase individual files on your old computer or do you want to completely wipe the entire drive ? If you are...

Hi Joel. This would be a massive step backwards for Eraser if it was unable to wipe FAT or FAT32 properly. :shock: It would mean Eraser V6 could not be recommended to users for wiping floppy disks, flash drives, SD cards and some hard drives !!! I am stunned that you of all people are...

You’re welcome. :D Eraser V6 will be released soon’ish ! Please keep checking back or you can watch the progress here.