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People come and go as products evolve, Eraser is no different :)

Are you able to 'whitelist' an application in your malware scanner? There is no reason that eraser might not erase a particular file type unless its being affected by another application

This being the latest version form SourceForge?

What version of windows are you using? Do you see any errors in the windows event log?

Totally wipe it with DBAN

Its under consideration, thought the bandwidth costs would make most alternatives prohibitive.

under downloads try the 5.8.8 version

What link are you trying?

Can you try installing this version: http://eraser.sourceforge.net/builds/Eraser6.2/Eraser.msi We dont have Win10 ourselves to test on just yet.

Eraser does this to obfusticate the original name of the file, its part of the erasing process. Using Eraser with a system designed to backup immediately any changes makes it pointless using Eraser in the first place.

If you save the registery settings in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Eraser\Eraser 6 then you can restore your custom erase method to any machine

If you have erased the SSD boot drive your only choice now is to reinstall the OS. There is no recovery of an erased drive. Perhaps try boot up via CD or another drive and you might be able to copy back missing files - its a long shot but has worked in some cases.

Your best bet is to delete the folder via windows and then run a free space erase. With 4 Million files any process trying to erase one at a time will take forever. A one pass free space erase will be sufficient

I'll be uploading a new install to sourceforge in the next few days. It might be the current production version was flagged by someone incorrectly.

I'll look at adding these changes to the install. You have done a lot of good research here.

yes its the sourceforge site itself which is being blocked will probably have to move away from there

try this beta version - do you get the same message?

please try this version http://eraser.heidi.ie/download.php?id=300 and let me know if it works

Google seems to be flagging all downloads from sourceforge as malware. If you want to check if the eraser download is the official version then you can check the digital signature by right clicking on the file.

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