Re: How secure are disk erase programs ?

From: Anonymous (me_at_me.com)
Date: 09/22/04 

Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 12:19:21 +0000 (UTC)

"Eric" <eric@xstudio.ca> wrote in news:deF3d.22924$RTE1.18080
@news01.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com:

> There are some evidence eraser software, such as cyberscrub, can complete
> erase and wipe all the confidence data.
> http://www.xstudio.ca/pcsupport/security/privacyprotection.html
>
> Use any data recovery progrm to see if your deleted file is still there.
> http://www.xstudio.ca/pcsupport/system/datarecovery.html
>
>

CyberScrub is way too buggy. It crashes whenever you right click on files
to erase them, and when it wipes the slack space it BSOD's! 

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