The File Shredder - Secure File Deletion / News: Recent posts

Not much is new, but the main change is instead of using binary data to overwrite the files, the user can now specify which random data they want to use (e.g. A,B,C) to overwrite the file.

This e-mail, from New Technologies, shows that The File Shredder really does secure your files from recovery! See it at http://www26.brinkster.com/boltfish/tfs.htm#letter

The File Shredder securely shreds files, making recovery of them impossible. For ease of use, the user can select a file by dragging and dropping, or by right clicking one and selecting Delete With TFS. The files are overwritten under two loops; the first one is the number of times the file should be overwritten, as specified by the user. The second one writes either a 0 or a 1 over the file until the length of the file has been covered (For I = 1 to LOF(1)). Not only that, but the file is renamed in the form of 111.111.111. Additional features include the ability to scan drives and folders for temp files and files of 0 length, and a neat progress bar to show the deletion status. ... read more