Freeraser: Best Free File Shredder To Shred Files For Your Netbook

Freeraser is a freeware application to delete sensitive data from your netbook easily. It can easily delete any sensitive information, like industrial secrets or some unwanted content, permanently.

When you delete a file on your Windows system, that file isn’t really deleted. Anybody can use one of the freely available recovery tools like Recuva, out there to recover what you thought was gone forever. If you need to destroy any data and eliminate any possibility of its restoration you need a “file shredder“. This software destroys the data you choose before the deletion, using a complicated procedure of filling the actual content with random data.

Freeraser can function on three levels:

1. a fast destruction (standard 1-round filling of random data)
2. a forced destruction (3 rounds of filling according to DoD 5220.22M standard)
3. an ultimate destruction (35 rounds of filling with data according to Guttman algorithm).

If you’re getting rid of your system (going to sell it to a friend or on eBay), we will recommend that you physically destroy hour hard drive, but if you just want to get rid of the sensitive files only, then use a shredder like Freeraser or Easy Shred File Shredder. It might also come handy to get rid of the sensitive data from your USB flash drives from time to time.