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What kind of features does REMO data shredder have?

ddblogs — Fri, 14 May 2010 12:12:15 +0000

REMO data shredder is the best software in the industry when it comes to safely deleting your files. If you don’t use data shredding technology to properly delete your files then you never know who could access your computer and use recovery software to find deleted files that you wouldn’t want them to have. This can be extremely detrimental and using a data shredder eliminates the possibility. REMO’s data shredding software has plenty of powerful features and it operates with over nine different shredding methods. All of them provide a unique and professional way to delete the files that you want to safely and effectively. The fast zero overwrite shredder option might be a great fit but the others include random overwrite, US department of defense, US Navy NAVSO, North Atlantic Treat Organization, German:VSITR, DOD Standard, Peter Guttman Secure Deletion and US Department of Defense + Guttman Method. With all of these options you should have plenty of power behind your deletion processes.

The REMO data shredding software has multiple levels of deletion and free disk space options that are all based on levels of security. These levels of security are described with fairly complex names and. The process of deletion with these levels helps to overwrite the data being deleted several times. This way all files deleted are unrecoverable. REMO uses powerful algorithms like NATO and NAVSO. These are the best in the business when it comes to overwriting your data for security. By performing the process several times over you can eliminate recovery options. REMO can also recover photos form corrupted memory sticks or recover images from SD cards.

File Eraser Software

ddblogs — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:56:15 +0000

Data remanence is the residual representation of data that have been in some way nominally erased or removed. This residue may be due to data being left intact by a nominal delete operation, or through physical properties of the storage medium. Data remanence may make inadvertent disclosure of sensitive information possible, should the storage media be released into an uncontrolled environment.

A common method used to counter data remanence is to overwrite the storage medium with new data. This is often called wiping or shredding of a file or disk. Because such methods can often be implemented in software alone, and may be able to selectively target only part of a medium, it is a popular, low-cost option for some applications. Overwriting is generally an acceptable method of clearing, as long as the media is writable and not damaged.

Some file eraser software make use of a simple overwrite technique, which writes the same data everywhere, often just a pattern of all zeros. At a minimum, this will prevent the data from being retrieved simply by reading from the medium again using standard system functions.

To counter more advanced data recovery techniques, specific overwrite patterns are often prescribed. These may be generic patterns intended to eradicate any trace signatures. For example, writing repeated, alternating patterns of ones and zeros may be more effective than zeros alone. Combinations of patterns are frequently specified. REMO Shredder is a powerful file eraser software, which provides nine different shredding methods, that exceed standards prescribed by various government and law enforcement agencies around the world.

The need for shredding data from your Hard Drive

ddblogs — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:24:41 +0000

Permanent erasure of data is something that is more than just simple pressing of the delete button, which is capable only of deleting, but not erasing permanently from the hard drive.There are physical data erasure methods like degaussing, but these make the disk unusable once the process is completed.Therefor, many people prefer to go for software disk overwriting methods, that not only delete the data permanently from the hard drive, but also lets the user make use of the hard drive again and again.

There are large amounts of confidential and private data that are used in the IT sector. These personal and confidential data like credit card numbers and other classified data could get leaked and get into wrong hands and erase hard drive data permanently.

If proper erasure of data is not done, there is always a danger of a user losing out all his private data, which will then be put to bad use by pranksters, or some other users who want to have a sneak peek at your data.

Due to the adverse situations cited above, it is now a necessity to make use of a shredding software, to get rid of all the data on the hard drive, including data that has been deleted. REMO Shredder lets you erase hard drive data permanently, with a few mouse clicks. The software lets you choose between nine different shredding methods based on different security levels. The software also lets you shred free space, by completely erasing even the deleted data from the drive.

Erasing data permanently from your hard drive

ddblogs — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:55:23 +0000

Windows operating system does not permanently erase data when a file is deleted using shift+del key combination or emptied the recycle bin. The allocation area or the index of the file system (FAT or NTFS) marks the area used by the deleted file as empty.

The actual raw contents of the files are constantly present even if the file has been deleted and waits for the operating system to overwrite that file by saving new data. Deleted file, which is not overwritten, can still be recovered with the help of data recovery software.

Here the question arises “How we can delete a file beyond recovery and wipe data completely from the hard drive?”

Remo File Shredder helps you to shred files and folders from your Windows drive, it shreds the deleted data leaving no traces of sensitive/critical data.

Selling or disposing off a PC creates a serious threat. The hard drives, which are given along with the PC, are mostly formatted thinking that the data cannot be recovered later. Unfortunately, almost all sensitive data can be recovered using specialized recovery labs or software. Only way left is shredding the sensitive data consisting of files and folders that can remove all traces of sensitive data, without making drive useless, the shredded drive remains working.

File Shredder is an advanced file shredding application, which allows various easy options to shred files, folders, and unused space from a logical drive. In addition, software is embedded with notification and pop up reminders when sensitive data is present in Windows recycler or free disk space. This advance feature helps you to take necessary actions which would ensure protection from deleted data theft.
Software has an intuitive interface that helps even a non technical person to use the software to erase their sensitive data.

Remo File Shredder supports several methods of shredding data or free disk space that are based on security levels. In general, if the data is overwritten several times then the data recovery would be impossible even by data recovery professionals.