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Is there a VDS shredder availible?

That would be real handy at times when your wanting your program to delete important documents securely - etc.

DaveR · Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 12:07 am Post subject:

Wouldn't using binfile & opening the file in hex mode & then writing zeros to the whole file, before deleting the file, do?

vtol · Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 12:25 am Post subject:

That sounds like a VDS shredder to me Smile

Not sure how a real shredder works, I was hoping someone allready had one made, but making one would be fun and cheaper than the shredders I allready have - lol

You know how VDS is dave, we're addicted to have it to it all Twisted Evil

I didnt realize how easy it would be for example keyloggers to undelete your serials and your VDS work /identity files - etc. till I bought a undelete program to restore my lost partition imgfile, its kinda scary.

Thanks for the helping

Dr. Dread · Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 7:12 am Post subject:

I wrote a file shredder in VDS years back - before BINFILE was available. So I used VDSINOUT.DLL.

This was the shredding part (%i being the input file):

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Some work that way, then some others use more department of defense standards by encrypting the files multiple times with non-recoverable keys then deleting the file.

vtol · Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 6:04 pm Post subject:

I forget the difference between SHREDD and WIPE.

Shredding free space would be an awesome VDS addition too.
I'm guessing it would involve undeleting in free space first.

I purchased one shredder software that puts Temp files in a temp folder while shredding free space, then another that can do it on the fly.

Interesting subject...