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- Eraser 5.2.1 (Oct 3rd 2001)
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- CONTENTS
- 1. LEGAL
- 1.1. Copyright
- 1.2. License agreement and Disclaimer
- 1.3. Digital signature
- 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
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- 1.1. Copyright
-
- Eraser Copyright ⌐ 1997-2001 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 and Disclaimer
-
- This program is free software; you can redistribute it
- and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General
- Public License as published by the Free Software
- Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
- option) any later version.
-
- This program is distributed in the hope that it will be
- useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the
- implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
- PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License
- for more details.
-
- You should have received a copy of the GNU General
- Public License along with this program; if not, write to
- the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place -
- Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
-
- 1.3. Digital signature
-
- The setup program is signed with Pretty Good Privacy
- (PGP) (public key available at web site) for verifying
- the authenticity. The signature file should be included
- with the archive.
-
- If you did not receive a separate digital signature file
- with this archive, download the official binary
- distribution at the home page (see section 5.2).
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- 2. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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- This version of Eraser runs on Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 4.0,
- 2000, XP and later.
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- 2.1. Windows Common Control Library (COMCTL32.DLL)
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- You must have version 4.72 or later version of the
- Windows Common Control Library in order to use Eraser.
-
- If you are using Windows 95 or NT and have not installed
- Internet Explorer 4.01 or later, you must download an
- update at:
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- http://www.tolvanen.com/common/
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- Later versions of Windows come with the updated library.
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- 3. HOW TO INSTALL & UNINSTALL
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- 3.1. Before installing
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- 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).
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- If the setup program asks you to reboot Windows after
- installation, you must do that before running Eraser.
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- 3.2. Installing
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- SETUP.EXE is a self-extracting executable containing the
- program files.
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- Run SETUP.EXE to install Eraser. The setup program will
- extract the files and copy them to a desired location.
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- 3.3. Help?
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- After installing, you can open the help file (in the
- Eraser directory) by double-clicking the ERASER.HLP
- file.
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- 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).
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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
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- 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.tolvanen.com/sami/.
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- 5.1. Contacting
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- Via Internet email, eraser@tolvanen.com.
-
- 5.2. Web site
-
- You can download the latest version of Eraser and the
- required libraries at Eraser home page.
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- http://www.tolvanen.com/eraser/
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