Zer0 Alternatives

Zer0 is described as 'User friendly file deletion tool with a high level of security. With Zer0, you'll be able to delete files and to prevent file recovery by a 3rd person' and is an app in the security & privacy category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Zer0 for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Self-Hosted and PortableApps.com apps. The best Zer0 alternative is Eraser, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Zer0 are DiskGenius, Ashampoo WinOptimizer, Darik's Boot and Nuke and Alternate File Shredder.

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  1. Active@ Kill Disk is disk eraser software for secure formatting of hard drives without any possibility of following data recovery.

    41 Active@ KillDisk alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. BCWipe icon
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    BCWipe data wiping software enables you to permanently delete files selectively so that they can never be recovered or undeleted. BCWipe embeds itself within Windows and can be activated from the Explorer FILE Menu OR from the context (right-click) menu OR from BCWipe Task...

    38 BCWipe alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. With Context-Shredder you can destroy your sensitive files. Choose from simple destruction or shredding by Peter Gutmann. Users can create deletion tasks, overwrite available free space or destroy disk drives.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    ErAce is software that will over write the hard drive 1-100 times. So it fullfills the strictest security standards i.e. DOD 5220.22-M. In that way it is impossible to recover data.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
    • ErAce is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Zer0.

    • ErAce is Free and ProprietaryZer0 is also Free and Proprietary
  5. AppleXsoft File Eraser is a user friendly and powerful data wipe software that allows you to permanently delete files on hard disks, USB drives completely. excluding any possibility of future recovery of deleted files and folders.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. If you want to delete some data permanently making it impossible to read again you can choose Kernel File Shredder Software which deletes file permanently so that no one can recover that file again even using data recovery tools.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. File Shredder icon
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    File Shredder is a FREE and powerful application to shred and permanently remove unwanted files from your computer.

    34 File Shredder alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. Over time, many very private or business-critical files accumulate on a computer. What happens to these files when you no longer need them? Moving to the Recycle Bin is far from enough to really protect your privacy.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. File Eraser Pro is the safe and reliable data erasure software which can completely erase your private and sensitive data with Safe and certified data erasure standards including HMG Infosec Standard 5, German FOFIS, DOD 5220.22-M, U.S.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Lowvel overwrites data with zeroes, i.e. performs so called zero-filling of a storage device. It should be noted that after such zeroing, neither a data recovery software nor a data recovery service can recover data off the device.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. When you normally delete your files in Mac OS X, the operating system is only forgetting where those particular files are placed, while the data still physically remains on the drive. Beginning with Mac OS 10.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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