Three reasons to skip this giveaway:

1)Computer forensics experts claim they can still retrieve data wiped multiple times.

2) If you are bent on file wiping, there are tons of free program that offer multiple techniques but the best free program is Eraser:
http://eraser.heidi.ie/

3) When does free cost you? Today apparently. I got this after submitting an email address for registration:

"Dear User,

our registration system auto-detected following problem:

Your e-mail address collides with paragraph 4 of the end-user-license you have to agree to by installing the program.

(4. ... It is required that you use your main and real e-mail address which is the address used for your daily messages. Registration with an e-mail address only created to receive a key but no newsletter to this main address or registration with an e-mail including words like 'spam', 'registration', 'regkey' or similar expressions helping you to avoid to get The Vendor's newsletter to this main address is not allowed and does not allow you to use The Software. ...)

1-abc.net Registration Service"

Wow. Really? We must get daily spam to get this program?
Companies like this usually sell your email anyway.
No thanks.

SoftwareJunkie  –  13 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (+254)

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This GAODT is a decent app which does its job pretty well and it's very easy to use as well, but there are far better and more powerful FREE ALTERNATIVES available on the market which can do the same tasks more deeply & effectively for FREE!!!

First of all, for a limited period of time (so hurry), you can grab a FREE key genuine license of the award-winning shareware "East-Tec DisposeSecure" here:

http://newest-download.blogspot.it/2012/07/serial-number-of-east-tec-disposesecure.html

Other great FREE tools worth downloading are definitely these:

* ERASER (==> SOFTPEDIA Editor Pick)

13 terrific removal data tools available like Gutmann and US Army AR380-19. With this tool you can be sure that anyone will ever be able to recover any sensitive data previously stored in your machine.

http://eraser.heidi.ie/

Screenshots:
http://www.softpedia.com/progScreenshots/Eraser-Screenshot-4216.html


* QUICK ERASE (==> just 1MB but extremely powerful app)

12 deletion methods cannot be wrong, can they??

· Quick – overwrites the file once with 0s
· British HMG IS5 (Baseline) – overwrites the file once with 0s
· British HMG IS5 (Enhanced) – overwrites the file 3 times
· Russian GOST P50739-95 – overwrites the file twice
· US Army AR380-95 – overwrites the file 3 times
· DoD 5220.22-M – overwrites the file 3 times
· DoD 5220.22-M (E) – overwrites the file 3 times
· DoD 5220.22-M (ECE) – overwrites the file 7 times
· Canadian RCMP TSSIT OPS-II – overwrites the file 7 times
· German VSITR – overwrites the file 7 times
· Bruce Schneier – overwrites the file 7 times
· Rizonesoft developed method (PAYNE-3163H) which overwrites the file an impressive 23 times

http://www.rizonesoft.com/2011/quickerase/

* Free CMRR Secure Erase
http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/people/Hughes/SecureErase.shtml

* PORTABLE SECURE WIPE (==> great Italian utility)
http://tcpmonitor.altervista.org/secure-wipe-erase-permanently-your-files/

* PORTABLE BLANK & SECURE
http://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Microsoft/BlankAndSecure

* (Portable) Zer0
http://www.kcsoftwares.com/index.php?zero

And finally, if you want to delete any file from your HD which cannot be deleted by WINDOWS, use the award-winning freeware (Portable) FILE ASSASSIN or this pretty unknown FREE app I recently discovered by chance:

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Security/Secure-cleaning/Any-File-Remover.shtml


So can't see why we should pay 20 bucks for a program like this if we can do even more things with FREE tools: what things can this GAOTD do the free tools mentioned above cannot??

If somebody knows the answer please let me know....LOL!!

My 2 cents...

Ciao
Giovanni

Giovanni  –  13 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (+131)

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Went to the web site:
Of the "awards" three were Error 404, and five were just download sites.
Not encouraging, will give this one a miss, THX anyway GOTD

Greg  –  13 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (+110)

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I agree with 7. In the past, it may have been possible on occasion to recover some over-written data from traces left at the side of tracks on hard drives, but with the precision of modern drives this has become an "urban legend" - see this expert article:
http://www.howtogeek.com/115573/htg-explains-why-you-only-have-to-wipe-a-disk-once-to-erase-it/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=190612&utm_content=emailsidebar

BAW30s  –  13 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (+37)

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To Giovanni: Thank you for always taking time and giving us some really very good points!

Rodica Neaga  –  13 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (+36)

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