Introducing Active @ KillDisk
1516 days ago
Are you the kind that is extremely paranoid? Are you worried that every time you change a harddisk, your data is being mined by others or by the government? Do you have tons of porn inside your harddisk and you are embarrassed by some of the kinkier ones? Do you have sensitive data which you don’t want to fall into the hands of criminals? Or you just don’t like your stuff falling into the hands of your rival? Well, if so, then you should take a look at Active @ KillDisk.
Normally when we format or delete our harddisk, the data is not completely removed. You can always restore the data with recovery software or tools. And for those who thinks that deleting your files from the recycle bin means that the data is gone forever is going to be shocked that is it pretty easy to recover those deleted files. There are a lot of software which can easily recover those files. The trick to all these is overwriting the files. For example, if you delete off a file, the data is still there, just that the the Operating System sees it as empty and can be used. However, if you write over these “empty” spaces, the previous data will be overwritten. Thus the data cannot be recovered using conventional methods. This is exactly what these types of software do. They overwrite the empty spaces of your harddisk with zeros or ones (or some random data) and this ensures that the data cannot be easily recovered.
You can use Active @ KillDisk to erase all your data securely from your harddisk. And the latest version allows you to wipe out the “empty” space from your harddisk. So this way, you can be sure that the data you deleted is really deleted. They support floppy disks, zip disks and thumb drives too, probably the ones which can be lost very easily. You need to get the professional version if you need really hardcore erasing. The professional version allows you to overwrite your data several times (called passes). It cost about US$39.95 for the dos version (v4.1) and US$49.95 for the Windows version (v5.1). Note that the dos version most likely cannot support your USB thumb drives. Get the Windows version if you are planning to erase thumb drives. Or you could just use the Free version.
