Software Listing: Gutmann
- Gutmann Algorithm Secure File Deletion
- License: Freeware
- Price: 0.00

Gutmann method uses 35 passes over the region to be deleted, 8 of them are Pseudo-random. Considered by some to be highly effective for preventing file recovery.
Requires .NET Framework 4.0
Source Code available in c# with comments.
Reference: http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html
Gutmann Algorithm Secure File Deletion License - Public Domain.
- Publisher: Gutmannmethod
- Date:
- Size: 295 KB
- Platform: WinOther
- Acronis Drive Cleanser
- License: Demo
- Price: 49.99

Getting rid of an old PC, upgrading to a new hard drive, returning a leased computer, or redeploying a PC within your company? It is truly imperative to completely destroy all data from the old hard disk. This confidential data should not only be safeguarded according to the strict rules, but it should also be reliably and completely destroyed when needed. You know you have deleted all the financial, corporate, and personal files, and even formatted and deleted hard disk partitions - but are they really gone from the drive? The answer is NO! Acronis Drive Cleanser guarantees the complete destruction of data on selected partitions and/or entire disks with extremely simple Windows XP-style interface and straight forward actions.
- Publisher: Acronis
- Date: 28-05-2003
- Size: 5467 KB
- Platform: Linux, MS-DOS, OS/2, Unix, Win2000, WinOther
- MaxCrypt Security Suite Standard
- License: Freeware
- Price: 0.00

MaxCrypt Security Suite is the premiere solution for computer security. It has been specifically designed to help you secure your sensitive information. MaxCrypt Security Suite contains three applications to help you secure your data: MaxCrypt, MaxConceal, and MaxDelete. MaxCrypt is an easy to use, but powerful computer security system for your computer. MaxCrypts On-the-Fly encryption system uses the 256-BIT AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) encryption algorithm on virtual volumes for fast, transparent encryption of files. Encrypted volumes will appear on the users computer as drives with their own drive letter.
- Publisher: KinoCode, Inc.
- Date: 07-08-2006
- Size: 3808 KB
- Platform: Win2000, Windows Server, WinOther
- Dupehunter Professional - Business Edition
- License: Shareware
- Price: $63.00

Dupehunter Professional is the professional tool for the identification of duplicated files on Windows operating systems.We would like to introduce you to Dupehunter Professional, an innovative search program to identify duplicated files on personal computers or in a network. Dupehunter Professional has a well-considered basis and offers a high degree of flexibility. It is an excellent tool, not only for private users but also in companies - hence called "professional". It works with calculated Hash values of CRC-32 (32 bit), MD5 (128 bit) and SHA-1 (160 bit).You can also erasing files acc.
- Publisher: dupehunter.com
- Date: 16-9-2009
- Size: 8448 KB
- Platform: Win2000, WinOther
- Delete Files Permanently Portable (file eraser)
- License: Shareware
- Price: 24.95

Delete Files Permanently Portable is an advanced file eraser for Windows (supports Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2008/2003/2000/ME/98) that allows you to permanently erase files, wipe free space, empty and wipe the Recycle Bin. This file eraser software can be installed on any kind of removable storage media (USB disk, flash drive, etc.), so you can use it on any computer you need. Delete Files Permanently Portable provides the fastest, easiest, and most secure way to erase files beyond recovery. You can use Delete Files Permanently to permanently erase files from hard drives, removable disks, USB drives, memory sticks, network drives, etc.
- Publisher: Delete Files Permanently.com
- Date: 21-01-2011
- Size: 4752 KB
- Platform: Win2000, Windows 7, Windows Server, WinOther
- Delete Files Permanently (File Shredder)
- License: Shareware
- Price: 24.95

Delete Files Permanently is an advanced file shredder that allows you to permanently delete files, wipe free space, empty and wipe the Recycle Bin. Delete Files Permanently supports Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2008/2003/2000/ME/98. When you delete files from your computer, empty the Recycle Bin and even format your hard drive, Windows does not completely delete the content of these files from your computer - it only deletes references to these files. All 'deleted' files still exist on the disk and can be restored. To protect your privacy and avoid unauthorized restoration of deleted files, you can use Delete Files Permanently to permanently delete files from your computer, hard drives, removable disks, USB drives, memory sticks, network drives, etc.
- Publisher: Delete Files Permanently.com
- Date: 01-02-2011
- Size: 4660 KB
- Platform: Win2000, Windows 7, Windows Server, WinOther
- Active ERASER
- License: Demo
- Price: 0.00

Active ERASER utility supports a variety of sanitation standards, from simple methods such as One Pass Zero to the military-grade DoD 5220.22-M, to even more sophisticated methods such as Gutmann's. You can erase files, folders, CD-RW discs, logical drives, and entire physical drives. The program also wipes out deleted files, which Windows just renders invisible, from your disk. It cleans the tracks of your Internet and local activities, such as cookies and temporary files. The log lets you control the process. You can schedule erasing to trigger every time you start Active Eraser, shut down Windows, or begin another activity.
- Publisher: Active Data Security Solutions
- Date: 12-10-2011
- Size: 1030 KB
- Platform: Win2000, WinOther
- Free Delete
- License: Freeware
- Price: 0.00

This program demonstrates us since we can erase files of sure form, with 13 systems of erased different, US DOD, peter Gutmann, Bruce Schneier, German VSITR, US Army, etc.....This one written 100 % in .net framework NOT API!!!.
- Publisher: freedelete.sourceforge.net
- Date: 27-08-2012
- Size: 107 KB
- Platform: WinOther
- Erazer
- License: Freeware
- Price: 0.00

Tool for securely erasing files on hard drive (including the Gutmann method).
Utilitaire de suppression securisA©e de fichiers (prenant en compte la mA©thode de suppression de Gutmann).
Erazer License - GNU General Public License (GPL).
- Publisher: Erazer
- Date:
- Platform: WinOther
- Data Sanitizer
- License: Shareware

When sensitive data is no longer needed on a computer it must be protected by making sure it can never be recovered. Businesses involved in security applications must know with 100% certainty that that information is no longer available to anyone. Security Software specialists Disk Doctors have developed an easy to use data eraser program that guarantees that security. The Disk Doctors Data Eraser works not only by unlinking files but also by specifically overwriting them with gibberish data. For very high security installations, overwriting the file several times is advised. Most government sectors have specific disk wipe standards for file deletion.
- Publisher: Disk Doctor Labs Inc
- Date:
- Size: 3860 KB
- Platform: Win2000, Windows 7, WinOther, WinServer, WinVista
- Files Deletion
- License: Shareware

Master Shredder is secure files deletion software. It integrates into Windows Explorer context menu and can wipe important files using 18 strong wiping algorithms (including DoD5200, Peter Gutmann algorithm and others)..
- Publisher: secureaction.com
- Date:
- Size: 2129 KB
- Platform: Win2000, Windows 7, WinOther, WinServer, WinVista
- Files Terminator Free
- License: Freeware
- Price: 0.00

Secure deletion of sensitive data! Files Terminator Free is an easy to use application that allows users to permanently delete their files and wipe free disk space. The utility protects the users privacy by permanently delete sensitive documents, images, videos and other files and by overwriting the free disk space. The software uses several shredding methods (one pass Pseudorandom, British HMG IS5, two pass Russian GOST P50739-95, three pass US DoD 5220.22M, seven pass German VSITR, Canadian RCPM TSSIT OPS-II, Bruce Schneier and the 35-pass Peter Gutmann) and supports drag and drop for easier use.
- Publisher: Elefant Software
- Date: 26-08-2014
- Size: 2924 KB
- Platform: Win2000, Win7 x32, Win7 x64, Windows Server, WinOther, WinVista, WinVista x64
- Hardwipe
- License: Shareware
- Price: 12.99

Hardwipe is a free data sanitization toolset used by activists, journalists, IT technicians and anyone needing to ensure that discarded, but sensitive, information can never be recovered by someone else. Hardwipe provides a slick user interface with optional support for \'right-click\' context menus in Windows File Explorer. Use Hardwipe to conveniently and permanently erase (or \'hard wipe\') data on disk and portable storage media. It can conveniently destroy files and folder contents on-demand, erase drives and USB media, and sanitize the Windows Recycler. Hardwipe gives you the freedom to securely erase: Physical Devices, Logical Volumes, Files/Folders, Recycler Bins, Free (unused) Drive Space and Windows Pagefile.
- Publisher: Big Angry Dog
- Date: 02-10-2015
- Size: 8868 KB
- Platform: Win2000, WinXP, Win7 x32, Win7 x64, Windows 8, Windows 10, WinServer, WinOther, WinVista, WinVista x64
- Secure Eraser
- License: Freeware
- Price: 0.00

Because it\'s been erased from your hard drive, doesn\'t mean it\'s gone forever. As long as the information was not overwritten, anyone can restore it at any time. It gets even more complicated, if a computer has been resold or given away. Secure Eraser uses the most renowned method of data disposal and overwrites sensitive information in such a sure way that it can never be retrieved - even with specialized software. Our multiple award-winning solutions for definitively destroying data also eliminate any cross-references that could leave traces of deleted files in the allocation table of your hard drive.
- Publisher: ASCOMP Software GmbH
- Date: 02-02-2016
- Size: 4815 KB
- Platform: Win2000, WinXP, Win7 x32, Win7 x64, Windows 8, Windows 10, WinServer, WinOther, WinVista, WinVista x64
- Acronis Power Utilities
- License: Demo
- Price: 59.99

Acronis Power Utilities 2004 is comprehensive suite of PC system utilities that helps you to manage your computer and protect your privacy throughout computer's life. If you want to upgrade to a new hard disk, Acronis Migrate Easy helps you to install it and migrate all your computer data, operating systems and programs in minutes. With Acronis Disk Editor you can easily back up and restore critical hard drive sectors or edit contents of hard disk sectors. If your PC becomes unbootable after a power outage, a system error or virus attack, you can be back up and running instantly with Acronis Recovery Expert.
- Publisher: Acronis
- Date: 13-04-2004
- Size: 26620 KB
- Platform: Linux, MS-DOS, OS/2, Unix, Win2000, WinOther
- Shred XP
- License: Shareware
- Price: 29.95

Using over a dozen government and industry-proven shredding methods, Shred XP returns control to you by securely deleting current files, previously 'deleted' files, the recycle bin, drive free space, file tips, names, dates, sizes, and starting sectors as well as securely removing Internet trails including Internet Explorer's history, cache and typed URLs. Additionally, Shred XP securely removes system trails including Recent Documents List and temp directories. Also, Shred XP provides a 'tree' of choices so you can remove the trails left by other installed programs such as Windows Media Player, MusicMatch, Forte Agent Newsreader, ICQ, AOL Messenger, Yahoo Messenger and more as well as customizing it yourself loading and saving trees on demand.
- Publisher: Gale-Force Software
- Date: 07-03-2003
- Size: 3063 KB
- Platform: Win2000, WinOther
- NShred
- License: Shareware
- Price: 24.99

With NShred you can eliminate confidential information and data from PC hard disks. Name, size, contents of erased file or folder can never be recovered, by any software or hardware means. Why just deleting is not enough? When you delete a file or a folder in WindowsTM it is not actually erased. Simply, the hard disk descriptor table is updated and the file entry is removed. So, the actual bytes of the file remain on the disk. Even when the file area is overwritten, it is still possibile to recover data, by applying certain laboratory procedures because it's rare that a portion of the hard disk is rewritten more than 3/5 times.
- Publisher: LittleLite Software
- Date: 03-01-2005
- Size: 428 KB
- Platform: Win2000, Windows Server, WinOther
- CleanCache
- License: Freeware
- Price: 0.00

CleanCache 2.0 is a free (for 1 - 2 systems), very powerful Internet Explorer 6.0 and Windows 2000/XP cleaner. It will delete all IE tracks (including cleaning/deleting index.dat files), AutoComplete, WinXP tracks and the deletion of user created additives. The following is a comprehensive list: Temporary Internet Files and index.dat Internet Explorer History and index.dat Internet Explorer Cookies (with selective save) and index.dat Typed URLs (with selective save) Internet Explorer Form AutoComplete (using either CleanCache 2.0 built in AutoComplete deletion or by using IE's built in function) Recent Documents Start Run History Search History Windows Temporary Directory Windows Media Player Windows Word Pad Clipboard Registry MRUs Recycle Bins Create additives to delete user specified files/directories...
- Publisher: ButtUglySoftware
- Date: 30-01-2004
- Size: 377 KB
- Platform: Windows Server, WinOther
- Evidence Washer
- License: Shareware
- Price: 39.95

Evidence Washer protects your privacy by cleaning up all the tracks of your Internet and system activities. It can clean your browser's cache, cookies, web forms data, entries in your recent documents history, recent applications history, find files history, your temporary files, recycle bin, clean recent documents lists for popular applications, can recover Hard Disk space, and many more. Protect your privacy with Evidence Washer and completely eliminate sensitive data! All this can be accomplished with a single click on the mouse, or even automatically! Unlike some other privacy protection tools which only delete the files and thus can be easily recovered by some data recovery tool, Evidence Washer completely removes those files from your hard disk without the possibility to recover it by any practical software or hardware methods.
- Publisher: Allera Software
- Date: 24-06-2004
- Size: 1226 KB
- Platform: Win2000, Windows Server, WinOther
- AEVITA Wipe and Delete
- License: Shareware
- Price: 29.95

AEVITA Wipe and Delete is a reliable and ultra-fast shredder that will help you securely erase any file or folder without any chances for its recovery. Designed for the Windows platforms, the application seamlessly integrates into Windows Explorer and can be accessed simply by right-clicking on any file, folder or disk and selecting the AEVITA Wipe and Delete menu option. Before erasing a file, you can examine its content in the built-in File Viewer. This will ensure you won't delete a needed file. What's more, the program keeps a log file on all files and/or folders erased during an erase process.
- Publisher: AEVITA Software Ltd.
- Date: 30-01-2006
- Size: 1331 KB
- Platform: Win2000, Windows Server, WinOther


















