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2. List of data-erasing software - Wikipedia

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   Supported wipe methods Reports BleachBit: Andrew Ziem and contributors GNU General Public License: Windows, Linux: Yes external [1] on screen, Copy and Paste-able CCleaner: Piriform: Trialware: Windows, OS X: Yes external [2]? Darik's Boot and Nuke (DBAN) Darik Horn GNU General Public License: OS independent, based on Linux: No external [3]? dd ...

3. Data erasure - Wikipedia

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   Data erasure (sometimes referred to as data clearing, data wiping, or data destruction) is a software-based method of data sanitization that aims to completely destroy all electronic data residing on a hard disk drive or other digital media by overwriting data onto all sectors of the device in an irreversible process. By overwriting the data on ...

4. Factory reset - Wikipedia

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   Microsoft's Windows 8, Windows 10 and Windows 11, and Apple's macOS have options for this. [citation needed] On Android devices, there is a factory data reset [4] option in Settings that will appear to erase all of the device's data and reset all of its settings. This method is typically used when the device has a technical problem that cannot ...

5. Darik's Boot and Nuke - Wikipedia

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   The Gutmann method, Quick Erase, DoD Short (3 passes), and DOD 5220.22-M (7 passes) are also included as options to handle data remanence. DBAN can be booted from a CD, DVD, USB flash drive or diskless using a Preboot Execution Environment. It is based on Linux and supports PATA (IDE), SCSI and SATA hard drives. DBAN can be configured to ...

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   Install on up to 3 Windows or Mac computers. ... multi-layered technology secures your computer and data in real-time, 24/7. TRY IT FREE FOR 30 DAYS * ... wipe your name, address and phone from ...

7. Gutmann method - Wikipedia

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   The Gutmann method is an algorithm for securely erasing the contents of computer hard disk drives, such as files.Devised by Peter Gutmann and Colin Plumb and presented in the paper Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory in July 1996, it involved writing a series of 35 patterns over the region to be erased.

8. Clear cache on a web browser - AOL Help

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   A browser's cache stores temporary website files which allows the site to load faster in future sessions. This data will be recreated every time you visit the webpage, though at times it can become corrupted. Clearing the cache deletes these files and fixes problems like outdated pages, websites freezing, and pages not loading or being ...

9. srm (Unix) - Wikipedia

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   Attempting to secure delete a file with multiple hard links results in a warning from srm stating that the current access path has been unlinked, but the data itself was not overwritten or truncated. This is an undocumented feature of srm 1.2.8 on Mac OS X 10.9 , [ 1 ] and is erroneously documented in 1.2.11 as a behaviour activated by the ...