Evidence Eliminator Data Cleaning Options

Select your choice of secure file destruction methods.

In Windows mode, you can if you wish set up file deletion similar to the U.S. Government Department of Defense DOD Standard 5220.22-M. This standard is quite old, and does not particularly guarantee anything, but it's there if you want it. In our opinion, for the average user these standards are total "overkill" - even in the lowest security setting, this program securely destroys data and the chance of recovery of evidence is practically zero.

Windows - Method Of Destruction

Zero - The file is over-written with zero's. (00000000)
Zero + Reverse - As above but then overwritten with 1's (11111111)
Zero + Reverse + Randomize - As above, but then overwritten with pseudo-random garbage

Windows - Repetitions of Destruction

The above process can be repeated up to nine times. If you enter Zero + Reverse with 2 repetitions, that multiplies to 4 overwrites (Zero,Reverse,Zero,Reverse) and the two passes will appear in the activity log as: <P1>[0][-]<P2>[0][-]

Windows - Extra Countermeasures

By scrambling the file's name and size before deleting it, you can add another layer of security against snoops. 

It is also possible to choose "Standard" insecure deletes if speed of deletion is the most important requirement.

DOS Mode - Select Repetitions

In DOS Mode, a different and simpler system is used. You can select up to 9 overwrites and those overwrites will alternate between Zero and Reverse at each pass.  Processing a swap file on maximum setting of 9 may take ten minutes or more, and leave no real advantage to most users than overwriting once. Securely overwriting just once will practically destroy data so that forensic software cannot recover any evidence from your drives.