• Comodo System Utilities - Introduction
  • System Requirements
  • Installing Comodo System Utilities
  • Starting Comodo System Utilities
  • The Main Interface
  • The Summary Area
  • Understanding Profiles
• Registry Cleaner
  • Clean
    • Filter Entries
  • Restore
  • Settings
  • Schedule
• Privacy Cleaner
  • Clean
  • Restore
  • Settings
  • Schedule
• Disk Cleaner
  • Clean
    • Filter Entries
  • Duplicates
  • Restore
  • Settings
  • Schedule
• Force Delete
  • Pending Operations
  • Recent Activity
• Shredder
• Autorun Manager
  • Startup
  • Services
  • Drivers
  • Boot Execute
  • Schedule Task
• Comodo System Utilities Settings
  • General Settings
  • Backup Settings
• Using Live Help
  • Installing GeekBuddy Client
  • Launching And Using The Service
• Uninstalling Comodo System Utilities
• Getting Support
• Appendix 1 - The Windows Registry Explained
• Appendix 2 GeekBuddy
• Appendix 3 Encryption Algorithms
• Appendix 4 Comodo System Utilities Profiles
  • Table Of Default Profiles Of Registry Cleaner
  • Table Of Default Profiles Of Privacy Cleaner
  • Table Of Default Profiles Of Disk Cleaner
• Appendix 5 Comodo System Utilities Versions
• About Comodo Security Solutions

Shredder

 

 

When you delete files and folders from your hard disk, Windows does not really remove them. The files remain on your drive – Windows merely deletes the reference to these files from the system table.

 

The contents of all deleted files remain on the disk and can be easily restored using any recovery utility, posing a high risk of identity theft, leak of confidential and sensitive data like Business data, Credit card information etc. To ensure the permanent deletion of the files, the files are to be wiped out of your system, the files are to be shredded and are to be rendered un-restorable. The Shredder utility in the Comodo System Utilities, totally removes the deleted files from your disks and protects leak of your confidential information. While wiping the files, the powerful shredder application overwrites the contents of the files with zeros or random numbers to a number of times you specify, so that all the contents of the files are overwritten entirely, eliminating even the traces of the original contents in the file before deletion.

 

Features and Benefits of using Shredder

• Deletes files permanently so that it is impossible for anyone to recover deleted information.

• Prevents business, credit card or personal data from being retrieved and stolen.

• Unwanted files can be easily and conclusively removed with a few clicks of the mouse.

• Gain peace of mind knowing that nobody can access your confidential files once they have been permanently deleted.

 

 

Comodo Shredder comes with three options:

• Shred Files and Folders – Enables to permanently delete specific files/folders;

• Shred Drive - Enables to wipe a specified partition in your hard disk. Provides options for wiping the free space so that it will not contain information that can be recovered or to wipe the data stored in the selected partition;

• Shred Disk - Enables to wipe entire hard disk. Provides options for wiping the free space so that it will not contain information that can be recovered or to wipe the data stored in the entire hard disk.

Shred Files and Folders

1. Click on the 'Select' button in the  'Shred Files and Folders' bar.

2. Select the files/folders you wish to delete from the folder tree structure and click the 'Shred' button.

Warning: Make sure that you have correctly selected the files and folders to be deleted and you are not selecting the files/folders, deletion of which, may impair the system. Once the files/folders are deleted permanently, they are not recoverable.

3. Select the checkbox 'I have read, understand and agree to execute this action' and click 'Yes' in the confirmation dialog.

 

The selected files/folders will be deleted and a 'Shred Complete' message will be displayed. 

The shredder cannot delete the files locked by other users or programs running in your system at this moment.  They will be shredded on the next restart automatically. If any of the files from the selection is found locked, the message will be displayed.

 

Shred Drive

1. Click on the 'Select' button  in the  'Shred Drive' bar.

2. Select the partition to be wiped and then select whether only the free space, the stored data or both to be wiped from the partition(s) and click the 'Shred' button.

 

Warning: Make sure that you have correctly selected the partition to be deleted and you are not selecting the data from partition, deletion of which, may impair the system. Once the data from the partition are deleted permanently, they are not recoverable.

3. Click 'Yes' in the confirmation dialog.

 

The deletion progress will be indicated...

 

 

… and the Shred Complete message will be displayed.

Shred Disk

1. Click on the 'Select' button in the 'Shred Disk' bar.

2. Select the disk mounted in your system from which all the data is to be wiped.

 

Warning: Make sure that you have selected the disk to be wiped correctly and you are not selecting the disk in which the Operating System is installed, which may impair the system. Once the data from the disk are deleted permanently, they are not recoverable.

 

• Click 'Yes' in the confirmation dialog.

The Disk shredding progress will be displayed followed by  'Shred Complete' message on successful completion.