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Burn writes over the free space on your drives such that deleted files are permanently unrecoverable.

Why use Burn?

To thwart your geek of a brother from snooping your deleted private files.

Burn allows the user to see the free space on all available drives. The user can then select one or more of the drives to burn. Optionally, one can press the select all button which will select all of the drives. If one or more drives are selected the burn command button is enabled. Pressing the burn button causes a temporary file of approximately free space size to be written with  random or zero data (user choice). After the file is written or a disk full error occurs the file is closed. Then it is deleted thereby freeing the disk space (user choice) .

Burn is not guaranteed to remove all sensitive data from your computer, but we think we will get a very large percentage of it.

Depending on  how you define sensitive data you may wish to delete files in your temp directories, including internet browser directories. There may be more than one if for example you use Netscape and Internet Explorer. Do this before you run burn.

Options

Write

  • Random
    • The seed is taken from the system clock.
    • Slower execution speed.
  • Zero
    • Faster Execution speed

Number of Passes

  • The number of times the free space is overwritten.
    • Three passes is considered to be sufficient for military purposes.
  • If the write option is Zero then zero and -1 are written on alternate passes.
    • Zero is hex 00000000
    • -1 is hex FFFFFFFF   

Delete Temp File

  • Uncheck this if you just want to fill up your disk and then later use PGP to wipe the files.

Save Preferences

  • Save the state of the above options. They will be remembered the next time you start Burn.

Speed

  • If you have a large amount of free space on your disk drives burn can take a long time to run.
  • On unfragmented, uncompressed hard drive volumes, we have seen speeds of around 12 MB/s. Your results may be even faster.
  • On floppies this can go as low as 0.2 KB/s.

Virtual Memory

  • Virtual Memory is consumed in large and then smaller sizes until we use it all up. As we allocate it we write Zeros or Random data to it (user choice). The memory is written, the number of passes as set by the user.
  • VB by default writes zeros to memory as it is allocated. This counts as one pass.
  • You may get a System Low on Memory warning message while virtual memory is being burned. Just click on the OK box of the warning and let burn finish it's work. Burn always frees up allocated memory when it finishes or even if the user clicks the stop button.
  • Exit other applications before running.

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Disclaimer

  • The usual stuff, use at your own risk. Now wasn't that more fun to read than your usual disclaimer.

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