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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.
-
-
- 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 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.
-
-
- 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 û 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.
-
- AUTHOR
-
- Sami Tolvanen
- sami.tolvanen@iki.fi
-
- Eraser home page:
- http://www.iki.fi/st/eraser/
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