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If you intend on reporting bugs with regards to the Nightly Builds, Betas or Release Candidates of Eraser, please join the Eraser Beta Testers user group. To join the group, go to the User Control Panel, select the radio button beside Eraser Beta Testers, and in the drop-down list below select...

You have a corrupted install of Eraser. Close all instances of Eraser then uninstall Eraser. Restart Windows before reinstalling the new version.

Hello, I'm happy to announce that I've managed to code a FAT directory entry cleaning module for Eraser 6 and should be ready in a couple of hours. I need a bunch of testers who are willing to (potentially) sacrifice their hard drives to let Eraser sanitise. The algorithm is fresh out of the...

Sorry? What do you mean? Joel

Hello all, I'm pleased to announce that Eraser 5.8.8-beta5 is ready for download. It includes a fix meant to ensure the Explorer context menu works on computers without .NET 3.5 and to solve a drive corruption problem with the First/Last 2KB erasure. Read the full announcement and download it...

Well, Eraser only works for Windows; I don't know of any equivalents for OSX, sorry. Joel

Hello all, I'm pleased to announce that Eraser 5.8.7 stable is ready for download. It includes Unicode support over the last beta release. Read the full announcement and download it from there. Joel

Hello, I'm glad to announce the release of Eraser 6 Release Candidate 5. It contains fixes and a massive code review which will increase stability. Read the full announcement and download it from there. Joel

Sounds like a request for a modification- why not post a bug in the Mozilla bugtrackers? Joel P/s your signature looks like an ad- please remove it, thanks.

Perhaps after you have erased a file with Eraser you check that the file indeed can't be recovered by any recovery program, and then you try running one. Then you are shocked that the program finds lots of files which are "intact" and "recoverable". Don't panic! Eraser 5: Eraser 5 will...

Hello all, I'm pleased to announce that Eraser 5.8.7-beta 5 is ready for download. It includes fixes for the task-completion action and a few 64-bit fixes. Read the full announcement and download it from there. Joel

Hello, I'm glad to announce the release of Eraser 6 Release Candidate 4. It contains fixes found during testing, mainly centred on usability. Read the full announcement and download it from there. Joel

After installing Eraser 6, stating Eraser gives you this message: Please check that the new settings suit your required level of security. Eraser 6 is built on top of a plugin architecture. This means that anyone with programming skills can help write plugins which can be used together with...

Hello, I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of Eraser 6 Release Candidate 3. It contains fixes for a few regressions introduced in RC2 and adds to overall stability. Read the full announcement and download it from there. Joel

Hello, Happy new year to everyone! I'm pleased to announce that Eraser 5.8.7-beta 4 is ready for download. It includes multiple feature fixes and should add to overall stability. Read the full announcement and download it from there. Joel

Eraser 6 Release Candidate 2 is released, bringing with it about a dozen fixes (a few of them major!). The list of the changes can be found on the announcement. Of course, some of the old features missing still have not been implemented in rc2 are: Erasures of Encrypted/Compressed/Sparse NTFS...

Eraser 6 is unleashed. Along with the new website. http://eraser.heidi.ie/. Eraser 6 sports a completely revamped user interface, and Windows XP/Vista support out of the box. We've recruited Dennis van Lith to be in charge of UX (User eXperience) and aesthetic appeal for Version 6; here are a...

Hello all, I've spent a bit of time recently working on Eraser v5 and I'm glad to announce the release of Eraser 5.8.7-beta 3. This release contains about a dozen fixes and includes both the standard installed version as well as the portable version. The Installer (unified for x86 and x64)...

No, don't move your desktop/laptop to a higher location, please. :D You are running Windows Vista. And even though you are an Administrator, you aren't given God status until you tell Windows, look, I know what I'm doing, so leave me alone. By default, Vista assumes that you don't know what...

Hello all, I've got a Portable version of Eraser set up and compiled for Win32, you can find that here: http://eraser.sourceforge.net/Portable.zip. Extract it and run Eraser.exe, settings will be stored in an INI file in the same directory. EraserL.exe has been compiled in this release (that's...