Freeware: Shred

	Easy Shred  License: Freeware
	Easy Shred is probably one of the smallest and most efficient programs available for shredding files on your PC. As most people know using the trash can to "trash" a file only removes its reference and it is very easy for the file to be recovered. There are many free deleted file recovery tools available. On the other hand Easy Shred uses a negative algorithm to overwrite your files and folders multiple times. The end result of this is a file that is extremely difficult / costly to have recovered and for all but the most determined of people permanently removed. Whilst some programs can identify the names of shredded files I've yet to find a program that could successfully recover the file data. Shredding can be initiated by either dragging or dropping your files / folders over the Easy Shred desktop icon or by right clicking on any files or folders you want shredding and using the Easy Shred option. Author: Paul Barlow| Date: 07-05-2008 | Size: 340 KB
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	File Exterminator  License: Freeware
	File Exterminator is basically a file shredding utility that will delete files and overwrite it multiple times to prevent file recovery. You can choose to shred multiple files across subdirectories or to shred a single file. Besides that, you can specify the file mask (ex : *.txt) when you want to shred files across subdirectories. The number of shreds to perform can be customised as well. Author: Malcolm Lim| Date: 17-09-2001 | Size: 388 KB
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	Shredator  License: Freeware
	Shredator.com is an excellent Web Cache, Disk Cleaner and Privacy Tool. Free Product Lifetime support, Free Lifetime Updates, Free Lifetime Downloads, Unique Update feature. Shred's Disk Freespace of any attached Disk, Hidden NTFS Alternate Data Streams independantly or with parent file, Internet Cache, History, Cookies, Application Data, Recycle bin, Swapfile, Index.dat files, Temp Locations and much more as well as define your own Registry or File locations. Has 'Report Mode Only' feature so that you can test your selections before destroying anything. 2000 and XP versions have additional 'Accounts' feature that enable an administrator to Shred target locations on all other account profiles on the machine. and much more... Author: PARC Data Systems Ltd| Date: 03-10-2004 | Size: 168 KB
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	File Shredder  License: Freeware
	File Shredder is free, secure and fast application to permanently shred and delete files and folders on your computer. Shredded files can not be brought back by using specialized software, tricks or hacks - File Shredder destroyes them beyond recovery. File Shredder is released under the GNU General Public License and it is free for personal and commercial use. Author: File Shredder| Date: 29-03-2007 | Size: 904 KB
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	Zilla Free DataNuker  License: Freeware
	Zilla Data Nuker literally destroys files, free space and your Recycle Bin contents instead of only deleting them. That means your data contents once overwritten and destroyed It can't be recovered. The user therefore should be sure of the files, folders .etc. he/she wants to shred.There are many safeguards built into the Zilla Data Nuker program to warn the user.Windows allocates clusters for new files (and extending existing files) from one end of the disk and moving towards the other end. Accordingly, the user for example if deleting files near the end of the disk, it might be very long before those clusters get used again.Therefore, shredding a disk's free space ensures that any deleted data stored in unallocated clusters will be completely shredded, and all the bits and pieces of left over data from deleted files will be destroyed.Generally speaking Windows stores files using two steps:A directory entry and A series of one or more clusters on a disk.When the user deletes a file using windows the file's data doesn't actually get deleted from disk. Windows simply marks the file's clusters as available for reuse, then marks that file's directory entry as deleted (from the directories available) by replacing the first character of the file's name with a special character. Now if those clusters don't get reused for another file, they are vulnerable and can be retrieved by those who know where and how to look for it.Adding one byte to the directory that was deleted will allow the retrieve of the entire file that has been deleted. This is used in most of the "Unerase" utilities functions. Zilla Data Nuker makes it virtually impossible to retrieve data from a file because it literally overwrites the file's data clusters before deleting the file. A "quick" shred overwrites the file once, filling its data clusters with zeroes. A "Thorough" shred overwrites the file maximum 10 times, using varying bit patterns each time Author: ZillaSoft.ws| Date: 15-04-2007 | Size: 124 KB
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	rjhExtensions  License: Freeware
	rjhExtensions is a simple utility that will add a number of useful functions to the context menu of Windows Explorer. Including a path to clipboard function, DOS prompt, file encryption, file renaming, a file shredder, file duplicator and functions Author: RjH Software| Date: 15-02-2001 | Size: 657 KB
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	Eraser  License: Freeware
	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. Author: Heidi Computers Ltd| Date: 19-01-2003 | Size: 2654 KB
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	Schredit  License: Freeware
	Why use schredit? After all, Windows allows you to delete files, documents, pictures and other data by simply dropping them into the trashcan and when you `empty the trash` those files are gone. Right? Wrong ! <BR> You just need to browse the internet, shareware libraries etc to find dozens, if not hundreds of simple utilities that can recover deleted files, folders and even whole harddrives. So, just because you delete something doesn`t mean that somebody else isn`t going to read it. <BR> Schredit sits on your Windows desktop just like trashcan. But that`s where the similarity ends...... Files dropped into Schredit are not coming back. <BR>Warning! Don`t come to us if you drop some really important data into Schredit. It doesn`t matter how important those files were or how much money you`re prepared to spend on data recovery. Fact is, we can`t help you Author: Axis Controls Limited| Date: 08-05-2005 | Size: 1470 KB
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	Eraser  License: Freeware
	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. 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. You can also define your own overwriting methods. Author: Sami Tolvanen| Date: 07-01-2002 | Size: 750 KB
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	CryptoExpert 2007 Lite  License: Freeware
	CryptoExpert Lite is a free encryption software. It uses an on-the-fly encryption system to encrypt and decrypt data. Data is stored in the encrypted form, but when it is requested by any application, it gets decrypted on-the-fly. Conversely, unencrypted data to be stored is encrypted instantaneously and then stored. The CryptoExpert system mounts a volume file to create a "virtual drive" that appears to applications and users like any other physical drive. Any data that the user attempts to write to this drive is intercepted by CryptoExpert, encrypted, and written to the volume file. Attempts to read from this volume are also intercepted, and the relevant data is read by CryptoExpert from the volume file, decrypted, and presented to the application trying to read the data. Dismounting the CryptoExpert "virtual drive" ensures that data cannot be read from or written to it. All data is stored encrypted within the "container". As far as windows is concerned, there is a 'new' disk that has suddenly appeared. When the program exists or the volume is unmounted, the file system stays encrypted and there is absolutely no way anyone can recover/get the data without the pass phrase. Author: SecureAction Research, LLC| Date: 24-02-2008 | Size: 2188 KB
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	Free SC System Tuner  License: Freeware
	SC System Tuner Extends your operating system's capabilities: Drive Cleaner, Registry Cleaner, Internet Cleaner, DLL Cleaner, Internet Tuneup, StartUp Tuner, File shredder. Free up valuable space on your hard drive, makeWindows faster, more secure and comfortable. Optimizes the performance of your PC, corrects problems, and helps you customize your system to suit your needs. Removes unnecessary files from your drives. Change each Windows icon or all icons using icon packages, Effects, security, input options and the memory management, accelerates your Internet connection, recovers files and protects your privacy, Cleans your temp and registry easily and safely, Automatically corrects system problems, Recovers deleted files and protects your privacy, Provides extensive information about your hardware and software and allows you to customize and tweak your system. Start-up program controls with crash-preventing Optimizer, a file shredder, and a respectable uninstall utility round out this suite. Includes a built in hard drive defrag. Best of all it is free! Author: Softwareclub.ws| Date: 17-08-2005 | Size: 3651 KB
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	CryptoExpert 2006 Lite  License: Freeware
	CryptoExpert Lite is a free encryption software. It uses an on-the-fly encryption system to encrypt and decrypt data. Data is stored in the encrypted form, but when it is requested by any application, it gets decrypted on-the-fly. Conversely, unencrypted data to be stored is encrypted instantaneously and then stored. The CryptoExpert system mounts a volume file to create a "virtual drive" that appears to applications and users like any other physical drive. Any data that the user attempts to write to this drive is intercepted by CryptoExpert, encrypted, and written to the volume file. Attempts to read from this volume are also intercepted, and the relevant data is read by CryptoExpert from the volume file, decrypted, and presented to the application trying to read the data. Dismounting the CryptoExpert "virtual drive" ensures that data cannot be read from or written to it. All data is stored encrypted within the "container". As far as windows is concerned, there is a 'new' disk that has suddenly appeared. When the program exists or the volume is unmounted, the file system stays encrypted and there is absolutely no way anyone can recover/get the data without the pass phrase. Product Features  Using powerful encryption algorithm to encrypt your data: CAST 128 bit  Ability to create encrypted containers (files vault) up to 20 Megabytes in size  Access to your files on virtual volume on the fly  Mapping any free drive letter like G:, F:, K: for virtual volume  Requires password authentication before the files become accessible  Works with all Windows application - even DOS applications  Really Fast  Looks like normal hard drive Author: SecureAction Research, LLC| Date: 11-09-2006 | Size: 1625 KB
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	Crypt4Free  License: Freeware
	Crypt4Free (freeware) is files encryption software with ability to encrypt files and text messages. Support for ZIP files and ability to secure delete sensitive files. Skinnable user friendly interface. Features:  Interface   * Easy in use   * Skin support (1 skin in standard downloadable package)    Work with files   * Crypt4Free encrypts every kind of file on every kind of medium, whether floppy disk, removable hard drive, zip drive, tape drive or other   * Full .ZIP support Crypt4Free can browse for existing .zip archives, extract its contents and even create new .zip archives!   * Built in files compression to reduce size in transmission    Secure communicating with others via Internet   * Ability to send encrypted files and messages via Internet   * Ability to encrypt email text (or any other text message) to send it securely via e-mail, chat, or instant messengers like ICQ, AOL Messenger, Microsoft Messenger and etc. The recipent must enter the password to read this message.    Security Level   * No "back door" in the software - No access possible under any circumstances. If you do not remember the password you cannot access the encrypted contents. There is no special procedure, secret code, or hidden entry method to fall back on.   * Crypt4Free has user privacy tool removing all internet traces like URL history, typed URLs, Favorities, Recycle Bin, typed passwords in web forms and etc.   * Built in file shredder - i.e. wiping the contents of the original pre-encrypted file Author: SecureAction Research, LLC| Date: 17-03-2008 | Size: 1702 KB
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