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Planning on tossing your old computer? I hope not — I hope you’ll first consider donating it to charity. Regardless of how you dispose of your computer, though, I recommend you consider wiping it clean of all personal information. And Eraser is a tool that will do exactly that for you.

Eraser completely removes sensitive data from your hard drive by “overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns.” This means that people cannot retrieve your data using disk maintenance tools or an undelete program.

Eraser is totally free and works with Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP and Vista. Download the program here: http://www.heidi.ie/node/6.