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NOTE: This version of WinEraser is not a update of Eraser.
WinEraser and Eraser can coexist on the same machine but if you
want to replace Eraser by WinEraser you will have to remove
Eraser manualy.
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WinEraser 1.0 (1. September 2006)
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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. Internet Explorer
2.2. Windows Installer
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 © 2006 by WinEraser Project. All
rights reserved.
Eraser Copyright © 2002-2003 by Garrett Trant. All
rights reserved.
Eraser Copyright © 1997-2002 by Sami Tolvanen. All
rights reserved.
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.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General
Public License along with this program; if not, write to
the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place -
Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
1.3. Digital signature
The setup program an MSI database are signed with a CAcert
certificat.
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2. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
This version of WinEraser runs on Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 4.0,
2000, XP and later.
2.1. Internet Explorer
If you are using Windows 95 or NT you must have installed
Internet Explorer 4.0 or later.
Later versions of Windows come with compatible Internet Explorer.
2.2. Windows Installer
This setup needs the Windows Installer engine 2.0. This engine
ist includet in Windows 2000 SP3, XP and later. If you have an
older Windows version you might need to install this engine first.
You can figure out if you need to install this engin by starting
the MSI setup. If Windows is not startign the setup you will have
to download and install the Windows Installer setup first.
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3. HOW TO INSTALL & UNINSTALL
3.1. Before installing
Be sure to uninstall any alfa or beta version of WinEraser
before installing.
If the setup program asks you to reboot Windows after
installation, you must do that before running WinEraser.
3.2. Installing
WinEraser10.msi is a Windows Installer database with the
cab file attached.
Run WinEraser10.msi to install WinEraser. The setup will
extact the files to a desired location and do the necessary
registration.
3.3. Help?
After installing, you can open the help file (in the
WinEraser directory) by double-clicking the Eraser.chm
file.
You can also get answers and help in the forums at the
project home page of WinEraser.
3.4. Uninstalling
You can uninstall WinEraser 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
WinEraser 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
WinEraser is a new product line of Eraser. This product line is
maintained by the WinEraser Project.
For more information visit http://sourceforge.net/projects/win-eraser/.
Garrett Trant, is the prvious author of Eraser. You might find
updates for his Eraser at http://www.heidi.ie.
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/.
5.1. Web site
You can download the latest version of WinEraser at the project
home page.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/win-eraser/
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