O&O SafeErase

Your personal photos and confidential documents can easily fall into the wrong hands when you sell, give away or dispose of your old PC or hard drives. Identity theft is now a widespread security threat. This is because clicking on “Delete” does not mean your files are permanently deleted. Even formatting the hard disk is not enough to permanently delete data. O&O SafeErase permanently deletes your confidential files using recognised methods so that a recovery is never possible, not even when using the best file recovery software.

O&O SafeErase is available in the following editions:

• Professional Edition: The version to use for a single PC. It cannot be used on a Server operating system.
• Workstation Edition: Intended for use on a desktop computer within a company. The Workstation Edition can be
  controlled over the user interface as well as over command lines. Another special feature of the Workstation Edition is its ability to simultaneously delete free space and partitions on different physical disks. This is different from the Professional Edition, where deletion is performed successively. This allows you to save considerable time when working with large data volumes.
• Server Edition: Optimised for a server and can be used on both a server as well as on a desktop computer. You
  can also control the Server Edition using command lines. Another special feature of the Server Edition is its ability to simultaneously delete free space and partitions on different physical disks. This is different from the Professional Edition, where deletion is performed successively. This allows you to save considerable time when working with large data volumes.

Key Features:

• “Instant Erase”: Selecting files over the context menu prompts a mini-dialog from where deletion can immediately take place
• Permanent deletion of files, folders, Memory cards and USB sticks
• Delete an entire computer, no boot medium necessary
• Delete internet traces and temporary program files
• Six methods to permanently delete confidential data
• Detailed reports as proof of deletion
• Analysis tool to search for unsafe deleted files
• Adapted deletion method for SSDs (TRIM)
• Enhanced report and activity management
• .Net Framework 4.6.1
• Supports Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 7 and Vista

O&O SafeErase - Features

O&O SafeErase gives you complete protection against unauthorized access to any confidential data you delete! No matter whether its outdated financial information, e-mail archives, or personal files, you can be sure that with O&O SafeErase this data will remain permanently deleted. Thats because O&O SafeErase doesnt just delete data - it annihilates it, using six recognized and recommended deletion methods, including ones practiced by the U. S. Departments of Defense (DoD), and the German Department of Security in Information Technology (BSI).

Highlights

• Internet Security: securely delete Browser data
• Pre-defined and individual deletion profiles
• Various settings for secure deletion
• Detailed reports on deletion procedures
• Overwriting with zeros (for very fast deletion)
• Supports multi-core processors
• Clear user interface showing main functions
• Secure deletion of files and partitions
• Secure deletion of entire computers without Boot media
• Secure moving of files and directories
• Six methods for securely deleting your confidential data
• Complete integration in Windows Explorer

New Features in Version 4

• Dont Give Data Spies a Chance!
  When you sell, return or destroy your old computer, the data on it is almost never fully deleted! Even when hard disks are formatted, data spies can take ordinary data recovery software and easily get hold of your customer data, construction plans or passwords. With O&O SafeErase, you can securely delete individual folders as well as entire computers, using recognized and recommended methods. Some of these techniques are employed by the U. S. Department of Defense (DoD) and the German Department for Security in Information Technology (BSI). With O&O SafeErase, you can be sure that the next owner of your old computer will never have a chance of invading your privacy!
• Delete your data once and for all!
  O&O SafeErase 4 is THE solution for securely deleting sensitive data from your hard disk and offers you the ultimate protection of your privacy. With just one click of the mouse, you can securely and permanently delete files, folders and partitions. The motives for deleting files are many. Old e-mail files, internet histories, file cache, financial records, company information, and private files ought to be protected from unauthorized access.
  O&O SafeErase 4 doesnt merely delete such data, it annihilates them by using recognized and recommended methods. Regardless of whether the operating system youre using is Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2008, Windows 2003, Sever 2008 or Windows 2000, O&O SafeErase 4 will prevent any unauthorized access to deleted files that may be capable of recovery.
• Improved user interface with flexible options
  As well as the now famous deployment of O&O SafeErase over the Windows context menu, the user interface has now been thoroughly overhauled for O&O SafeErase 4. Not only can you access all program functions through it, you can now combine deletion procedures.
• Advanced functions of O&O TotalErase
  As a first in its field, O&O SafeErase 4 provides the user with a completely new feature: the fully-integrated O&O TotalErase Assistant now allows you to delete an entire system, including the system partition, with no need for Boot medium. New with Version 4 is the option of exclusively deleting the system partition whilst excluding other partitions. Both functions are easily accessed through the interface.
• Six methods for your security
  For the first time ever, O&O SafeErase 4 gives the user a choice of selecting among six different methods of deletion. The methods of deletion differ in the number of times a file is overwritten and in the type of overwriting process used. These methods guarantee you maximum security, whatever your need may be. In addition to the standardized methods of deletion practiced by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and the German Department for Security in Information Technology (BSI), you can choose the Gutmann method, which is intended for use at the highest levels of security. This scientifically recognized method of data deletion overwrites the selected areas of the hard disk 35 times, by using specified as well as random values in accordance with strictly defined rules. As a result, O&O SafeErase 4 even exceeds the requirements of the DoD and BSI. For deleting data at speed, overwriting data with zeros is now also available.
• Internet Security
  With the new version 4 of O&O SafeErase, it is now possible for the very first time to delete sensitive internet data too. The various internet browsers, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome are automatically displayed, and the user just has to select which internet data he wishes to delete - for example Cookies or temporary files and from which Browser.
• Increased effectivity
  The support of multi-core processors means O&O SafeErase 4 deletes even more efficiently. Thanks to the deletion profiles, the options of combining different tasks and creating advanced reports, secure deletion of sensitive data was never so efficient, nor so easy to plan.

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O&O SafeErase - System Requirements

System Requirements

• 20 MB free hard disk space
• Operating System: Windows 7, Windows 2000, Server 2003, XP, Vista, Server 2008 (all Editions, from Windows XP/Server 2003 32-Bit/64-Bit)
• Languages: English, German, French.