Product Description

If you’re selling, donating or reassigning your PC you need DriveScrubber. Simply deleting files, pictures, or documents – even reformatting the hard drive – isn’t enough. Anyone with basic computer knowledge can recover and steal the private information you thought was gone. U.S. Department of Defense standards for secure data deletion require seven overwrites of the target drive space; DriveScrubber lets you overwrite up to one hundred times, so even the most sophisticated recovery and forensic methods can’t recover your data. DriveScrubber also lets you wipe only free drive space, keeping the operating system intact. Use it to keep personal information out of the wrong hands, or even to clean up after a stubborn virus or spyware attack.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #779 in Software
• Brand: IOLO Technologies
• Model: 8010321
• Released on: 2007-12-03
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 2000, Windows XP
• Format: CD-ROM
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

Features

• Customizable Tools DriveScrubber has adjustable security levels for drive-wiping procedures, from the fast, efficient one-pass method to ultra-secure electron microscopy and magnetic field residue detection shields.
• Maintain Ongoing Protection In addition to wiping all data from any drive, DriveScrubber can be used to maintain an ultra-secure computing environment by regularly wiping only deleted data, keeping existing the files, programs, and operating system intact.
• Wipe Any Drive, Format, or File System Runs on any PC from a CD-ROM, no installation required.
• Maximum Speed Competing products may take hours or even days to clean drives. DriveScrubber uses the fastest, most optimized methods, while maintaining its proven security strength.
• Any number of attached drives can be batch-wiped in one complete, unattended process, and all wiping procedures can be paused, cancelled, and resumed.

Customer Reviews

DID WHAT I WANTED IT TO DO -- ERASE DATA
Even on a computer that had gotten slow as molasses, it did a great job! I just put the CD in and it took over. It was easy to use. You don't need to connect your mouse. You will be using your keyboard keys to select actions.

A good piece of software for data destruction
The Windows Recycle Bin has saved many a person who deleted files and quickly regretted having done so. The ability to recovery deleted files is a welcome feature. But what if you really want to completely wipe a file or drive so that it is unrecoverable? Most people would simply reply that all you have to do is empty your Recycle Bin. The truth is that it is much harder to completely delete a file. In fact, it is extremely hard to do if one does not have the proper tools.

Data can indeed be recovered long after it has been erased. If you want to know the technical details about this, check out Peter Gutmann's seminal paper on the topic, "Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory," at [...]

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In technical terms, these topics deal with the concept of data remanence, which is that data will continue to reside on a drive, even though it has been presumably erased. The security issue with data remanence is that it can easily make disclosure of confidential data possible if one gets physical access to the drive. To counteract the problem of data remanence, drive wiping was created to permanently remove all data.

There are many ways to permanently make data unavailable. The most drastic is the actual destruction of the drive. A less drastic way is to use software such as DriveScrubber 08 to wipe the disk such that any sort of data recovery is impossible. This need is so significant that the US Department of Defense created a standard (DoD 5220.22-M) on how to permanently wipe data, and DriveScrubber supports that.

Last year, security researcher Simson Garfinkel purchased a number of used computers on eBay. On those hard drives that were not wiped, he found thousands of credit-card numbers and financial records, along with medical information, trade secrets, and other highly personal information.

The bottom line is that if you have personal data on a storage device, you need to wipe it before you trash it.

The need to properly wipe data is so important that there is an organization created around it--the National Association for Information Destruction [...]. Without wiping tools such as DriveScrubber 08, it is nearly impossible to effectively wipe your drives clean of confidential data. If you buy and sell computers, or if you need to remove data that you want no one to see, it is imperative to use wiping tools that make data recovery impossible. If your drives get into the wrong hands, they may use data recovery software to get to your data. If you wipe the drive first, all their efforts will be for naught. Once your effectively wipe the drive, all data from every sector will have been eliminated.

Don't waste your time or money
I am good with computers, but could not get the program to work properly. Tech support is a joke. They won't help me over the phone, but rather sent me an email explaining how to fix the problem. When I called back, tech support was rude...and that's putting it nicely.