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TracksCleaner 3.0 - User Guide and FAQ

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Choosing a strength level

The "Wiping strength level" box lets you choose the method TracksCleaner will use when erasing your data. There are five methods. From weakest to strongest, they are:
  • Quick Wipe (normal pass)
  • Quick Wipe (random pass)
  • Stop Undelete Tools
  • NAVSO P-5239-26 (RLL)
  • NAVSO P-5239-26 (MFM)
  • DOD 5220.22-M
  • Schneier's Algorithm
  • Super DOD 5220.22-M
  • Gutmann's Algorithm
The weaker methods, like Quick Wipe, run faster and are useful if you're deleting a lot of data and aren't critically interested in preventing undeletion. Even the quick methods are strongly effective against undeletion, and will block nearly all undeletion software you can get commercially.

The "Stop Undelete Tools" method is somewhat more advanced than the quick wipes. It takes longer, but it's designed specifically to defeat stronger methods of undeletion.

The "NAVSO" and "DOD" methods are derived from government standards for data destruction (from the Navy and the Department of Defense, respectively). The first "NAVSO" method, RLL-type, is designed for IDE drives. Most home computers have IDE drives, so this version of "NAVSO" may be the most appropriate for you. The other method, MFM-type, is designed for SCSI drives. The "DOD" method applies to all types of drives, and is stronger than the "NAVSO" ones but will take more time.

Schneier's Algorithm is taken from the book Applied Cryptography by Bruce Schneier. It overwrites files twice with known patterns, then five times with random patterns. It is considered to be stronger than government standards.

"Super DOD" is similar to the "DOD" method, except it adds random pattern sweeps before and after the normal "DOD" method. This exceeds the "DOD" specification because it has all the elements that "DOD" has plus some additional ones.

Finally, Gutmann's Algorithm is the strongest and the slowest of those offered by TracksCleaner. This 35-pass method, described by Peter Gutmann of the University of Auckland, is designed to remove the magnetic remnants on the disk's surface to prevent both software and hardware recovery techniques.

You must decide for yourself which strength level is most appropriate for your needs. Even the weaker methods are effective against most recovery techniques, and there's a big speed difference between the different methods, so you'll need to choose an appropriate balance for your own case.

Defining an action

First, you must choose the type of action you'd like to add. You can choose to:
  • Delete files
  • Delete a registry key
  • Delete a registry value
  • Delete multiple registry keys
  • Delete multiple registry values
  • Clear an INI section
  • Run a command
Depending on what you choose, the "Action Data" section will change to contain the information TracksCleaner needs to complete the action.



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