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Imagine an eraser that caters to the truly paranoid personality. An eraser for one who fears that a Gutmann wipe might not be enough. An eraser for one who spends hours with his favorite hex editor, fearfully going back and forth across the expanse of his hard drive, desperately seeking that inconsequential fragment of a cluster that will prove to him that his hard drive will someday be the instrument of his own destruction. Well, you sicko, meet Super Shredder!
"AnalogX SuperShredder is what's considered a 'secure deletion' tool, which means it mangles a file in such a way that the data contained inside is destroyed BEFORE it deletes the file from the system - in this way ensuring that someone can't come back at a later date and retrieve sensitive material." The important point in the paragraph above is the fact that Super Shredder destroys all data BEFORE it deletes the file. And let me tell you, when Super Shredder overwrites a file, it OVEWRITES the file. Meaning, first you can have it do a Gutmann wipe; then a DOD overwrite; then a random overwrite - and then go back and do all this again FIVE TIMES OVER!! I don't see how even Magnetic Remenance has a chance at defeating this paranoid's delight. Super Shredder has three built in databases which can be imported for the type of shredding you want done. Either Gutmann, DOD (Dept. Of Defense), random data - or ALL THREE together! To top off that concept, you can set it to do as many rotations through each of these wipes as you have time for. Set it for a few hundred wipes, starting with Gutmann, rotating to DOD, and then a random pass - and then have it start all over again until it has rotated through these wipes for a few hundred times. Is that enough for you, you sick paranoid? There is one drawback to it. It can only do a single file at one time. You have to keep prompting it to destroy the next file. Here is the settings display. It displays the number of passes setup for the different wipes you can choose from, plus a few other settings.
Here are two window showing the setup for Gutmann, then DOD.
This shows how you import the different wiping patterns. Click on the IMPORT button, and you can import the shredding patterns in any order you care to - and as many times as you care to.
It also does have one other drawback in common with shredders such as Windows Washer and Evidence Eliminator, programs which fill the file with binary junk instead of zeroing out the file length. If we check with DirSnoop after shredding three files, we see the extra file name bearing the name of one of the files that were shredded. This would have to be purged with DirSnoop. But this is a small price for the truly paranoid to pay for the assurance that even a Magnetic Remenance test would go bust looking for anything left by Super Shredder - I think...but then I'm paranoid.
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