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AlienDestroyer (formerly Destroyer X)... Erase/Destroy your sensitive information with a click of a button, overwriting selected Items (Files-Folders) more than 34 times before deleting them beyond the possibility of recovery, in addition, the user has an option to overwrite Items and then "ZERO-BLOCKS" - the specific blocks that were previously used by the target Item or Items.
Features:
Features:
- Simple Drag and Drop interface.
- Process-Destroy Files and Folders
- Process-Destroy Multiple Files or Folders
- Process-Destroy Files and Folders Simultaneously
- Complete
What's New
Version 3.7.1:
- Support for Mac OS X 10.7.2
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later
AlienDestroyer User Discussion (Write a Review)
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| Downloads:7,498 |
| Version Downloads:213 |
| Type:Utilities : File Management |
| License:Shareware |
| Date:15 Oct 2011 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price: $10.00 |
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AlienDestroyer (formerly Destroyer X)... Erase/Destroy your sensitive information with a click of a button, overwriting selected Items (Files-Folders) more than 34 times before deleting them beyond the possibility of recovery, in addition, the user has an option to overwrite Items and then "ZERO-BLOCKS" - the specific blocks that were previously used by the target Item or Items.
Features:
Features:
- Simple Drag and Drop interface.
- Process-Destroy Files and Folders
- Process-Destroy Multiple Files or Folders
- Process-Destroy Files and Folders Simultaneously
- Complete control over Files and Folders, can be revised and removed before activating Destroying options. Single File-Folder removal or All Items removal.
- Process-Destroy in single passes from Local-External HDD's as well as most Mountable Devices , ( USB, FireWire, Flash Memory Cards, Pen Drives, iPods, Shuffles ) etc.
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The Gutmann method of 35 passes was designed primarily for hard drives of a type which has not been manufactured for over ten years (MFM). Peter Gutmann himself has written that it is really not needed on modern hard drives and that a few passes with random data is sufficient. Especially given that it would take serious drive disassembly and custom minute examination to even attempt recovery of overwritten drives.
'course, its your drive and if you want to spend the time for 35 passes over, guess its your choice. And it does take rather a while on large files.
But for me, I now use tools and methods that are much less time-consuming because they require only a few passes of overwriting.
For all users: Please check you spam folder after purchase as the license code may end up there.
Thank you.
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when you put stuff in your trash can you can always choose from the Menu "Finder > Secure Empty Trash...". That, too, overwrites the files in the trash some 30 times.
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Important: are file and folder *names* securely overwritten too? It's usually just the contents with apps like these...
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As for the name being overwritten, if it is simply moved to a free space the filename won't show up even by a search for invisibles - right?
Thanks for replying
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In the past using other programs designed to accomplish the same result, they all seemed to take much more time to completely obliterate a file or folder, as this programs claim to do? Any reply from the developer?