[OPLINTECH] Download Pick of the Week: Dariks Boot and Nuke Hard Disk Wiper

[JKENZIG]

Hi All,
This may be the year when you are going to get new PC's cause there is
no way the old ones are going to run Vista (which is officially launched
as of today). So in the practice of goodwill and all that jive here is a
LINUX utility that you can use to clean off all and wipe your hard disks
clean before disposing of your old computers. 
Darik's Boot and Nuke ("DBAN") is a self-contained boot floppy that
securely wipes the hard disks of most computers. DBAN will automatically
and completely delete the contents of any hard disk that it can detect,
which makes it an appropriate utility for bulk or emergency data
destruction. 
DBAN is a means of ensuring due diligence in computer recycling, a way
of preventing identity theft if you want to sell a computer, and a good
way to totally clean a Microsoft Windows installation of viruses and
spyware. DBAN prevents or thoroughly hinders all known techniques of
hard disk forensic analysis.
There is also an ISO that you can burn the program to a CD. The exe can
be put on a Floppy or a bootable USB stick. Typing in Autonuke at the
prompt after the linux boot will automatically wipe the disk clean. 
Check out Dariks page at sourceforge http://dban.sourceforge.net/ for
the latest version.


Jim Kenzig 
Network Manager 
Cuyahoga County Public Library
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jkenzig at cuyahogalibrary.org
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