ProtectStar™ Data Shredder 2.5

Secure deletion of sensitive data
The new ProtectStar™ Data Shredder 2.5 ushers in an intelligent generation of solutions for secure deletion of sensitive data.
This compact and user friendly software was designed with the data deletion needs of both business and private users, and allows all data to be deleted in such a way that it is completely beyond recovery, even for experts and government agencies.
When you use ProtectStar™ Data Shredder 2.5 Professional or Server to delete data from a hard drive or storage device, you are ensuring that confidential information such as bank data, passwords and employee data can never fall into the wrong hands.
Meets government and military standards
The ProtectStar™ Data Shredder meets and exceeds government, military and industry standards for the permanent erasure of digital information. The software erases all existing data including confidential, secret and top-secret security level data e.g. with the German BSI/VS-ITR TL-03423 standard, DoD 5220.22-M ECE and DoD 5220.22-M E.
ProtectStar™ Secure Deletion Algorithm
The ProtectStar™ Secure Deletion Algorithm©, which was specially developed by ProtectStar™ for ProtectStar™ Data Shredder, is one of the best such algorithms available today. It carries out 50 deletion processes and in a manner that complies with all international data security standards.

Official compatible with Windows 7
Since version 2.1 the ProtectStar ™ Data Shredder is official compatible with Microsoft Windows 7. The Windows 7-logo program helps customers in selecting suitable software, which work perfectly with the new operating system Windows 7 in terms of compatibility and reliability. Certification was granted after rigorous testing by Microsoft.
Product features:
- Secure data deletion based on government approved and military data security standards up to the confidential, secret and top secret security standard levels.
- Deletes confidential data from hard drives, SSD hard disks, memory sticks, usb sticks, flash drives, CompactFlash, Secure Digital (SD) card, memory cards, MMC, xD, MicroDrive, etc.
- System partitions and individual system drives can be deleted securely in offline mode without a boot medium
- Detailed deletion log provides evidence of deletion
- Integration of the powerful ProtectStar™ Secure Deletion Algorithm© allows for fail-safe data security
- Secure deletion of free storage space, as well as the Windows recycling bin, Internet cache, cookies, temporary system folders, etc.
- Allows for secure cutting and pasting of files and directories
- Fully integrated into the Windows Explorer context menu
- System partitions and individual system drives can be deleted securely in offline mode without a boot medium
- Detailed deletion log provides evidence of deletion
- Compatible with Solid State Drives (SSD)
- 12-months technical support, updates and upgrades (Professional and Server version)
- Supports FAT, FAT32 and NTFS
- Supports IDE/ATA, SCSI, USB, SATA, SAS, RAID, Firewire
System requirements:
- Minimum requirements for the relevant operating system
- Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, 2003 Server and 2008 Server
- 32- and 64 bit compatible
- 10 MB of free disk space
- (Performance of the software depends extensively on the I/O speed of the hard drive)
Latest versions:
Professional Version: 2.5.10.07.08 (Date: July 08, 2010) - change log
Freeware Version: 2.1.10.07.08 (Date: July 08, 2010) - change log
-> DOWNLOAD 10 days trial version (Professional 2.5) [msi file, 9,9mb]
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