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Eraser 3.0 Readme.txt
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CONTENTS
1. LEGAL
1.1. Copyright
1.2. License agreement
1.3. Disclaimer
2. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
2.1. Libraries
3. HOW TO INSTALL & UNINSTALL
3.1. Before installing
3.2. Installing
3.3. Help?
3.4. Uninstalling
4. DESCRIPTION
5. AUTHOR
5.1. Contacting
5.2. Web site
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1. LEGAL
1.1. Copyright
Eraser Copyright ⌐ 1997-1999 by Sami Tolvanen. All rights
reserved.
By using this software you accept all the terms and conditions
of the license agreement and disclaimer below.
All registered and unregistered trademarks mentioned in this
document are the property of their respective holders.
1.2. License agreement
Eraser is a FREEWARE program and must be provided at no charge.
Feel free to share this program with your friends, but do not
give it away altered or as part of another system without
permission from the author.
1.3. Disclaimer
Eraser is provided on an "AS IS" basis, without warranty of any
kind either express or implied, including warranties of
merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
In no event will the author be liable to you for damages, direct
or consequential, which may result from the use of this
software.
The user must assume the entire risk of using the software.
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2. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
This version of Eraser runs on Windows 95, 98, NT 4.0 and later.
2.1. Libraries
It may be necessary for you to update the following dynamic
link libraries before installing Eraser.
These files were not included in the archive because of their
size and because they are part of Windows 98 and are included
with many applications including Internet Explorer.
2.1.1. mfc42.dll and msvcrt.dll
You must have Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) Libraries
installed in order to use Eraser.
If you do not have the files installed, or get an error message
when running the program, you can download (582 kB) the latest
versions by following the link below.
http://www.iki.fi/st/common/mfcdlls.zip
Unzip the archive after downloading and see "readme.txt" for
instructions on how to install.
2.1.2. comctl32.dll
You must have version 4.70 or later version of the Windows
Common Control Library in order to use the new Eraser user
interface.
If you are using Windows 95 or NT and have not installed
Internet Explorer 4.0 or later, you must download an update.
Windows 98 comes with the updated library.
You can download the library update (427 kB) directly from
Microsoft or from Eraser home page. Use one of the links
below.
http://download.microsoft.com/msdownload/ie401/patch/comcontrol/en/401comupd.exe
http://www.iki.fi/st/common/401comupd.exe
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3. HOW TO INSTALL & UNINSTALL
3.1. Before installing
Be sure to uninstall any previous version of Eraser before
installing. Also make sure you have the required libraries
installed before running setup (see section 2.1).
If the setup program asks you to reboot Windows after
installation, you must do that before running Eraser.
3.2. Installing
SETUP.EXE is a self-extracting executable containing the program
files.
Run SETUP.EXE to install Eraser. The setup program will extract
the files and copy them to a desired location.
3.3. Help?
After installing, you can open the help file (in the Eraser
directory) by double-clicking the ERASER.HLP file.
If the help file does not answer your question, do not hesitate
to contact the author (see section 5.1).
You can also get answers to some frequently asked questions and
read a step-by-step installation instructions at Eraser home
page (see section 5.2).
3.4. Uninstalling
You can uninstall Eraser 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
Eraser 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
Sami Tolvanen, the author of this software is a student in
university of technology in Finland. For more information, visit
his home page at http://www.iki.fi/st/.
5.1. Contacting
Via Internet e-mail, sami.tolvanen@iki.fi.
5.2. Web site
You can download the latest version of Eraser and the required
libraries at Eraser home page, http://www.iki.fi/st/eraser/.
Please use the URL above when linking to the site. Thank you.
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