PillarSoft

Data Shield Data Shield is the latest addition to the PillarSoft line of software solutions for OS/2. Data Shield provides secure deletion of all your sensitive data. It is important to know that merely deleting data does not actually remove the information from your hard drive. It can still be recovered and your sensitive data may be compromised.

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Data deleted from your system may still exist on your drive and can be recovered and reused? Even a quick format to a drive that is being resold does not remove all data and the buyer could recover information that may be sensitive to your situation. Was your financial information on that drive or some important client database? An outsider can retrieve that information quite easily.

Data Shield offers to overwrite selected data before deletion so prying eyes will not see what you don't want them to see. It offers a choice of overwriting X number of times before deletion or delete to DOD specification. Data Shield will handle all freespace on a drive, a complete drive, TMP & TEMP directories, \DELETE directories, individual files, individual directories, directory trees, as well as cleanup of the Netscape cache and it's history trails.

As usual, with most PillarSoft applications, much of Data Shield's work is point and click, saving you the drudgery of locating your "TMP" directory or "Netscape.hst", for example, manually. As much work as possible is ferreted out by Data Shield automatically when the user asks for it.