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- NOTE: You MUST remove ALL EARLIER VERSIONS (including BETAS)
- before installing this version. When installing an earlier
- stable build, UNINSTALL the Beta first.
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- Eraser 5.8.7: Changes over 5.8.7-beta5
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- - Allow users to specify whether they want to delete Eraser-related
- configuration files on uninstall
- - Implemented Eraser 5 Unicode support.
-
- Fixed in previous 5.8.7 betas:
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- - Timestamp all binaries on top of signing with the certificate
- - Fixed dragged-and-dropped tasks to the On-Demand pane. The computer
- will shut down when done
- - Fixed scheduled tasks' completion action
- - Display the time when scheduled tasks are to run at midnight
- - Fixed a 64-bit problem for ISAAC buffer fills (semantic, not
- really serious)
- - Fixed a wrong use of the equality operator leading to files being
- detected as encrypted when they are not
- - Fixed the missing shell extension
- - Fixed 64-bit installs (VC runtime complained of lack of cabinet)
- - Fixed error message when user deletes files and cancels in the
- Eraser Explorer.
- - Deleting tasks now require confirmation (as per Windows)
- - Fixed a hang when users expanded the Network bit of the file
- data selection dialog (now only affects Verifier)
- - Run the post-task operation when it is complete.
- - Replaced the custom file/folder selection dialog with the Windows
- built-in ones.
- - The "no files to erase" error no longer appears for file/folder
- erasures.
- - Fixed the Hotkey selection dialog in General Preferences
- - System passwords must be specified for it to be active. Throw
- an error if the user wanted a password but didn't set one
- - x64 compatibility fixes (NTAPI call)
- - The scheduler log size must be positive, the dialog enforces it
- now.
- - Allow users to tell Eraser to remember the resolve locked files
- setting for the current erase. Like a No to All or Yes to All
- button.
- - Implemented the deletion of run-at-reboot scheduled tasks.
- - Compile everything using VS 2008.
- - Fixed command line error when selecting subfolders to be erased
- with the parent folder
- - Fixed a few issues with EraserL creating a registry key after an
- erase
- - Fixed the weird bug of right-clicking the various erase methods
- and Eraser hangs. Hopefully this resolves the problem of the
- file/folder selection dialog blinking and resetting the selections.
- - Implemented NTFS EFS file erasure (EXPERIMENTAL!)
- - Further complicate forensics: Set MACE to invalid values (NTFS only)
- - Fixed #6: Incorrect 'When Finished' option
- - Implemented #37: Eraser should not allow system to hibernate or
- standby when running
- - Fixed #36: Eraser overriding Windows hotkeys in context menu
- - Fixed #48: Inaccurate determination of process elevation
- - Do not create "New Eraser Document" in the New context menu of
- Explorer when using a Portable version
- - Schedlog.txt will always be kept in the local Application Data
- folder.
- - Fixed shutdown issues after erase for NT-based computers.
- - Fixed erasure of recycle bin contents when the erase was cancelled.
- - Fixed Windows 98 compatibility.
- - Fixed error checking when querying for elevation.
- - Renamed Verify.exe to Erschk.exe. Resolved #418558.
- - Fixed the VC2005 redistributable being extracted over each other.
- when both x86 and x64 builds are selected for install.
- - Fixed command line error when -silent was passed to EraserL.
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- CONTENTS
- 1. LEGAL
- 1.1. Copyright
- 1.2. License agreement and Disclaimer
- 1.3. Digital signature
- 2. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
- 2.1. Libraries
- 3. HOW TO INSTALL & UNINSTALL
- 3.1. Before installing
- 3.2. Installing
- 3.3. Help?
- 3.4. Uninstalling
- 4. DESCRIPTION
- 5. AUTHOR
- 5.1. Web site
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- 1. LEGAL
-
- 1.1. Copyright
-
- Eraser Copyright ⌐ 2007-2008 by The Eraser Project. All
- rights reserved.
- Eraser Copyright ⌐ 2002-2006 by Garrett Trant. All rights
- reserved.
- Eraser Copyright ⌐ 1997-2002 by Sami Tolvanen. All rights
- reserved.
-
- By using this software you accept all the terms and
- conditions of the license agreement and disclaimer
- below.
-
- All registered and unregistered trademarks mentioned in
- this document are the property of their respective
- holders.
-
- 1.2. License agreement and Disclaimer
-
- This program is free software; you can redistribute it
- and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General
- Public License as published by the Free Software
- Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
- option) any later version.
-
- This program is distributed in the hope that it will be
- useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the
- implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
- PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License
- for more details.
-
- 1.2.1 GNU General Public License
- The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL) is attached
- in the file COPYING.txt
-
- 1.3. Digital signature
-
- The setup program is signed with an Authenticode signature
- for authenticity verification.
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- 2. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
-
- This version of Eraser runs on Windows 2000, XP and all editions
- of Vista. Windows XP x64 and all 64-bit SKUs of Vista can also
- be used (using the 64-bit version). Windows 7 installs may work
- but Eraser 5 is not currently tested under that platform.
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- 3. HOW TO INSTALL & UNINSTALL
-
- 3.1. Before installing
-
- Be sure to uninstall any previous version of Eraser
- before installing.
-
- If the setup program asks you to reboot Windows after
- installation, you must do that before running Eraser.
-
- 3.2. Installing
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- This setup file is a self-extracting executable containing
- the program files.
-
- Run EraserSetup.exe to install Eraser. The setup program will
- extract the files and copy them to a desired location.
-
- 3.3. Help?
-
- After installing, you can open the help file (in the
- Eraser directory) by double-clicking the ERASER.HLP
- file.
-
- You can also get answers to some frequently asked
- questions and read a step-by-step installation
- instructions at Eraser home page (see section 5.1).
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- 3.4. Uninstalling
-
- You can uninstall Eraser normally via Control Panel,
- Add/Remove Programs. You should not remove the files
- manually because the settings in the registry would not
- be removed.
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- 4. DESCRIPTION
-
- Eraser is an advanced security tool, which allows you to
- completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by
- overwriting it several times with carefully selected
- patterns.
-
- You can drag and drop files and folders to the on-demand
- eraser, use the convenient Explorer shell extension or use
- the integrated scheduler to program overwriting of unused
- disk space or, for example, browser cache files to happen
- regularly, at night, during your lunch break, at weekends or
- whenever you like.
-
- The patterns used for overwriting are based on Peter
- Gutmann's paper "Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and
- Solid-State Memory" and they are selected to effectively
- remove the magnetic remnants from the hard disk making it
- impossible to recover the data.
-
- Other methods include the one defined in the National
- Industrial Security Program Operating Manual of the US
- Department of Defense and overwriting with pseudo-random data
- up to one hundred times.
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- 5. AUTHOR
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- The new maintainer of this product is The Eraser Project.
- For more information visit
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/eraser
-
- Sami Tolvanen, the original author of this software is a
- student in the university of technology in Finland. For
- more information, visit his home page at
- http://www.tolvanen.com/sami/.
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- 5.1. Web site
-
- You can download the latest version of Eraser and the
- required libraries at the Eraser SourceForge page.
-
- http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=37015
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