Audience
Anyone interested in a solution securely erase and shred sensitive files, folders and free disk space from their PC
About KakaSoft Free File Shredder
Free File Shredder is designed to delete files quickly and safely. Using industry-standard file-erasing algorithms, the software can permanently delete files to ensure that they cannot be restored by data recovery software. Configure File Shredder to overwrite file data with random information up to 15 times, so it is practically impossible to recover the original data. With File Shredder, you can securely delete files and documents from your hard drive without fear that they could be recovered by data recovery software. There are quite a few software tools today for the retrieval of deleted files under Windows OS. Those tools often referred to as “file recovery” software, are taking advantage of the shortcoming of the Windows “delete” command that we all regularly use to delete files. Actually, the “delete” operation in Windows only removes bits of information from files, so they appear to have been deleted in the OS.
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File Shredder
With File Shredder you can remove files from your hard drive without fear they could be recovered. There are quite a few software tools today for the retrieval of deleted files under Windows OS. Those tools, often referred to as "file recovery" software, are taking advantage of shortcomings of the WIndows "delete" command that we all use regularly to delete files. Actually, the "delete" operation in Windows only removes bits of information from files so they appear deleted in OS. It is easy to retrieve those files using the aforementioned specialized file recovery software. In order to remove, or shred files permanently from your system you have to use a program that is capable of rewriting the files with random series of binary data multiple times. This process is often called shredding. That way, the actual content of the file has been overwritten and the possibilities to recover such a shredded file are mostly theoretical.
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Starting Price:
Free
Free Version:
Free Version available.
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KakaSoft
United States
www.kakasoft.com/file-shredder/
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