Why to download Free File Shredders ?

Do you know that deleting the files from your Folders only deletes its reference from the Windows Directory structure. The actual content of the file remain present in your Hard Disk and are easily recoverable. Even if you delete them permanently (!) from Recycle Bin, freely available file recovery programs can easily recover the data from your HDD.

If this data is some junk office files and documents, you can forget about them. But in case, the data is sensitive, then you sure need to take precautions for your PC Security.

Here comes the role of File Shredders, which use different algorithms to actually wipe that data and make it completely unusable. There are many file shredder programs available on Internet, some are paid and some are free.

Where to find free file shredder software ?

Here we present you 11 great Freeware File Shredder Program Downloads.

1. Eraser: Eraser is an advanced security tool (for Windows), which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns. Works with Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Windows 2003 Server and DOS. Eraser is Free software and its source code is released under GNU General Public License.
2. System Purifier: Jitbit System Purifier is an all-in-one file shredder, privacy eraser, disk cleaner, free space wiper/eraser and startup programs manager.
3. SuperShredder: SuperShredder gives you the ability to delete files using not only common methods such as Gutmann and NISPOM (DoD), but can be completely customized to give you all the security and/or performance you may need. It can receive files via drag-and-drop onto the application or the icon, selecting files from inside the program, command line, and can even add a shortcut to your ‘Send To’ menu inside the Windows Explorer so it’s simple to delete files in a secure and convenient fashion.
4. File Shredder: In File Shredder you can choose between 5 different shredding algorithms, each one gradually stronger than the previous one. It also has integrated Disk Wiper which uses shredding algorithm to wipe unused disk space. This one is free for both personal and commercial use and works with Windows NT, 2000, XP, 2003 Server and Vista.
5. Simple File Shredder: When you use Simple File Shredder to shred a file, the file is over-written with with random bytes before it’s deleted. If the file was ever restored using recovery software, it would be worthless. Simple File Shredder v3 provides a new fully customizable System Shredder. Using the System Shredder, you can easily group browser cache, cookie, and history files to be located and shredded.
6. UltraShredder: UltraShredder is a standalone, USB portable file shredder which deletes sensitive files by overwriting them with random characters, saving it to disk each time, and then bypasses the recycle bin, thus acting as your personal, portable file shredder. If the file were to be recovered by a data recovery program, they would only be able to see unintelligible characters on disk where the file used to be. The program is a great tool to destroy sensitive data, and is very small with a minute memory footprint, and makes no changes to your system whatsoever.
7. CHAOS Shredder: By overwriting the portion on the hard drive that was previously allocated to the files several times with junk data, CHAOS Shredder will completely erase files from your disk, without the possibility to recover it by any practical software or hardware methods. CHAOS Shredder allows you to purge, wipe and erase data with methods that far exceed US Department of Defense standards for file deletion (DOD 5220.22).
8. Zilla Nuker: It will securely shred and destroy any sensitive files on your hard drive, including locked files and previously deleted ones. It works with Windows 95, 98, ME, XP, NT 3.x, NT 4.x, and 2000. Highlights include: different shredding modes (ex. Quick Mode), scheduler, option to shred whole drives, etc.
9. FileASSASSIN: FileASSASSIN is an application that can delete any type of locked files that are on your computer. Whether the files are from a malware infection or just a particular file that will not delete – FileASSASSIN can remove it. The program uses advanced programming techniques to unload modules, close remote handles, and terminate processes to remove the particular locked file. Please use with caution as deleting critical system files may cause system errors.
10. Pocket KillBox: Pocket KillBox is a program that can be used to get rid of files that stubbornly refuse to allow you to delete them.
11. CBL Data Shredder: The CBL Data Shredder program supports a range of methods of erasing data, providing different levels of security and convenience. In general it would be true to say that each time a hard drive is overwritten, the chances of recovering any data from it become very thin. (For examples of the sorts of hardware-based recovery techniques that may be attempted, please see the succeeding section).  The CBL Data Shredder program works by overwriting the entire disk with a pattern of bits. Wiping the disk with a simple (non-random) pattern once is known as clearing or erasing. It may still be possible, with specialist hardware, to read data off the disk.

Malware Attacks on websites and blogs are increasing day by day. There are many forms and shapes in which these malware programs attack your websites. Some are easily seen, while some are hidden and not easily discovered. For instance, if a website is hacked, most of the time it is defaced and the entire world knows within minutes about the attack. These types of attacks are generally launched by hackers, who want to prove a point or two.

But there are some other types of attacks, which are more sophisticated and they insert a malicious script in your website code. On the face of it, you don’t see any change, but silently, your website is now one of the many similar platforms for that hacker to launch a bigger attack somewhere else. Your website is being used only as a pawn in the bigger game plan.

This situation is very risky. Soon your website will be tracked as a malicious site by various security agencies, including Google. And once this happens, and Google detects malware or phishing attacks are coming from your website they will place a warning next to your results listing, an interstitial warning page when the user clicks the result and a pop-up warning if the Google Toolbar is installed. As soon as this happens, your site is virtually killed.

How to Get Warning Alerts to Protect Your Website from Malware Attacks

Thankfully, Google comes to your rescue here. Google has recently started Safe Browsing API, which is a simple method for developers to download Google’s list of suspected phishing and malware URLs for which malware warning alerts are issued to the users of Firefox and Google Desktop. There are many applications under development at present which will make use of this API.

One such useful service is SERPGuard. It is a FREE malware alert service that regularly checks the Google Safe Browsing Blacklists. And whenever any mention of your website URLs appears there, it immediately shoots you warning signals, through emails, twitter and RSS. You just have to sign up with a FREE account with them and verify your site by uploading a small code to your webpages, and it starts monitoring your site for any malware and fishing attacks.

A really useful service in the long term.

If you want to know more, follow these links to get the answers about SERPGuard.

What is the Google Safe Browsing Blacklist?

How do I get my website removed from Google Safe Browsing Blacklist?

How do I remove malware from my website(s)?

How do I report sites for the Google Safe Browsing Blacklist?

After reading about a few WordPress Blogs getting hacked, I am finding that I have started reading more about the Online Security aspects, and probably a few of my last posts reflect that as well. Recently I have come across a really nice WordPress Plugin, which is a great tool to restrict unauthorized access to your WordPress Blog.

Welcome to Login LockDown WordPress Plugin.

It records the IP address and timestamp of every attempt which results in failure to login to your WordPress Account. If it is seen that the a particular IP is repeatedly attempting and failing to login to your account then the login function is disabled for all requests from that range. This foils the attempt to break your password simple by trial and error methods.

Currently the plugin defaults to a 1 hour lock out of an IP block after 3 failed login attempts within 5 minutes. This can be modified via the Options panel. Administrators can release locked out IP ranges manually from the panel.

They have recently released the version 1.2 of the plugin, which is compatible with WordPress 2.5.1 also.

Download: Login LockDown v1.2

What is DOM-x Player ?

Yesterday, when I was going through my Yahoo Answers session, (I am a regular at Yahoo Answers), I came across a question, which asked for how to open a media file, which requires a special Media Player, named as DOM-x Player. This quickly reminded of my nephew getting into trouble after downloading DOM-x Player, and it made me to write this post.

If you are not aware, DOM-x Player is a one of the many Rogue Malware programs, which are infecting more and more PCs nowadays. The mechanism of DOM-x Player installation is easy. It is generally spread through the various online file sharing sites like Rapidshare and various Torrent sites like BitTorrent. People who want to make a quick buck disguise a rogue file as a movie file. When you download it and try to run it, this gives you a link and asks you to download DOM-x Media Player. If you get into this trap to download and install DOM-x Media Player, then you may be in trouble.

Although DOM Player Malware is not the latest entrant, but it surely is causing damage today also. If you take a look at the various keywords being searched for DOM Player, you will notice that how many people are still searching for DOM Player.

For more information on this, you can visit TorrentFreak.

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Should I Download DOM-x PLayer ?

Do I really need to answer that question ?

It has now been confirmed.

In a recent study, folks from Google, IBM and Communication Systems Group in Switzerland, have discovered that more than 40% of all the Internet users are exposed to malware risks because of unsafe browsers. Only 60% of the Internet users bother to update their browsers with the latest patches and plugins, which help them avoid the malware attacks.

Out of these 60%, majority are using Mozilla Firefox, as expected. As many as 83% of Firefox users keep their browsers up-to-date. While Internet Explorer users are the lazy people, and only 48% actually update their browsers. Part of this fact is because of the painless process, with which patches gets searched and loaded in Firefox. It’s automatic like breeze. You even don’t really have to bother to update your Firefox.

Firefox downloads updates automatically and prompts the user to install them immediately. If the user declines the update, the patches are installed the next time the browser is started. Opera checks for a new version on startup, but requires the user to manually download and re-install the browser. Safari relies on an external Apple-updater that checks for new updates at regular intervals, and IE is updated roughly once every 30 days, when Microsoft issues patches on the second Tuesday of the month.

What I feel is that this figure of 60% is also a bit high, if we take into account all different types of plugins and applications used by modern browsers. I have my own doubts, that if we consider the updation of all plugins including Flash Player, Java, QuickTime, Adobe Reader etc., this figure will be much less.

What do you think ?

There are many other interesting facts and figures. If you are interested, then follow this link to read the complete report of the study (PDF).