East-Tec FormatSecure Review

East-Tec FormatSecure 1.5 (Shareware, $29.95)

If you think that merely formatting a drive is enough to actually delete data, you may be in for a big surprise. There are plenty of free tools that can be used by anyone and that can unformat the drive and reconstruct the data. That's why when you give your coworker or friend a file or a program on a disk (floppy, ZIP, Jaz, or any other type of disk), or give him access to your hard disk, you may actually give him access to the information that the disk used to contain. Backup copies of your financial records or business plans, your private files and e-mail messages, and all your other sensitive documents can easily fall into the wrong hands. East-Tec FormatSecure, in addition to formatting a drive, securely wipes the data in order to eliminate all sensitive information beyond recovery. The product goes beyond U.S. Department of Defense security standards and provides protection against all methods and equipment of data recovery. East-Tec FormatSecure features a very intuitive wizard interface and can secure

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Other products of EAST Technologies:
diskSpace Explorer Home Edition 3.0 (Shareware, $19.95)
diskSpace Explorer Network Edition 3.0 (Shareware, $34.95)
East-Tec Eraser 2004 5.6 (Shareware, $49.95)
East-Tec File Shredder 1.0 (Freeware)
East-Tec Sanitizer 2004 3.0 (Shareware, $74.95)

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