Secure file erasers for Windows and Mac
Getting rid of things properly. Overwriting files for good, clearing the traces programs leave, proving it happened, and auditing a fleet.
4 programs, free while we’re in preview. One file each. No account, no installer, nothing to uninstall.
Overwrites files with random data, removes them, and records what it destroyed.
The Simple one of the 4: it keeps the settings to a minimum and picks sensible defaults for you, so there is almost nothing to learn before it is useful.
Knows that Firefox hides your history in places.sqlite. And a hundred places like it.
The Vertical one of the 4: it is tuned for that work specifically, with presets and reports built around it rather than every setting under the sun.
Shred by policy on a schedule, and keep a ledger that proves it happened.
The Pro one of the 4: it adds the deeper settings and finer control that people who use it every day ask for, without getting in the way on a quick job.
Checks every laptop's cache and history trails against a written policy.
The Team one of the 4: it adds what a team needs: command-line control for scripts, settings you can roll out across machines, and a record of everything that ran.
Reading on this job
- How to securely delete files (and when not to bother) Overwriting a file works on a hard disk and is close to meaningless on an SSD. Which one you have decides the whole answer.
What all 4 of them do the same way
- Nothing is deleted. Anything a program removes is moved somewhere you can get it back from, and anything that changes files shows you the whole plan before it touches one.
- Nothing is reported back to us. No program here signs you in, phones home or counts what you did. The ones that use the network at all use it because that is the job — fetching a file you asked for, reaching a machine you named — and nowhere else.
- One file. Download it and run it. There is no installer, no runtime to fetch and nothing left behind if you delete it.
- The window and the command line are the same program. Double-click it for the window; give it arguments and the same binary runs as a command-line tool.
- The source is published for every program here, next to the download.
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