Secure Data Removal

[Matt1eD]

Does anybody know of any free tools for secure destruction of files? Anybody tried this:-

http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/

It was only the result of a little googling.

Cheers

Edit:- Just found http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/CIS/Doc/datarmv.html anybody know of better free ones or had any experience of them?

[eldren]

I've used Eraser before, though it was version 5.1, which has no mention of this Heidi Computers; thus, it was quite some time ago. Back then, it was pretty good, and seemed to be very thorough. With it's secure setting, though, it's very slow - overwriting a file 35 times, even if it's only a few megabytes, takes far longer than one might think. But if you want security...