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Eraser 2.1 Readme.txt
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LEGAL

Eraser Copyright © 1997-1999 by Sami Tolvanen. All rights
reserved.

By using this software you accept all the terms and conditions
of the licence agreement and disclaimer below.

License agreement

Eraser is a freeware program and must be provided at no charge.
Feel free to share this program with your friends, but please do
not give it away altered or as part of another system.

Disclaimer

Eraser is provided on an "AS IS" basis, without warranty of any
kind either express or implied, including warranties of
merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. In no event
will the author be liable to you for damages, direct or
consequential, which may result from the use of this program.
The user must assume the entire risk of using the software.

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HOW TO INSTALL & UNINSTALL

SETUP.EXE is a self-extracting executable containing the program
files.

Run SETUP.EXE to install Eraser. The setup program will extract
the files and copy them to a desired location. You can uninstall
Eraser normally via Control Panel.

Eraser requires MFC Shared Libraries, MFC42.DLL and MSVCRT.DLL,
(you can download them at Eraser home page).

BEFORE INSTALLING

Be sure to uninstall any previous version of Eraser before
installing.

If the setup program asks you to reboot Windows after
installation, be sure to do that before running Eraser.

HELP?

After installing, you can open the help file (in the Eraser
directory) by double-clicking the ERASER.HLP file.

If the help file does not answer your question, do not hesitate
to contact the author.

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DESCRIPTION

Eraser consists of several utilities built on top of a powerful
file wiping library capable of securely removing sensitive data
from your hard drive.

Three user interfaces are included – a standard wipe utility, a
convenient Explorer shell extension and a scheduler which allows
you to program the erasing of unused disk space or, for example,
cache files to happen regularly, at night, during your lunch
break, at weekends or whenever you like.

By default files are overwritten several times with carefully
selected patterns, based on Peter Gutmann's paper Secure
Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory, which
effectively remove the magnetic remnants from the hard disk
making it impossible to recover the data.

For faster (and less effective) file erasing, Eraser also
supports a method defined in the National Industrial Security
Program Operating Manual of the US Department of Defense.

There is also an option to overwrite only with pseudo-random
data.

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AUTHOR

Sami Tolvanen
sami.tolvanen@iki.fi

Eraser home page:
http://www.iki.fi/st/eraser/


Please use the URL above when linking to the Eraser home page.
Thank you.

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