Studies completed in July 2003 by both the Gartner Group and Harris Interactive indicated that as many as 7 million individuals were victims of identity theft in the previous 12 months. Increasingly, personal information such as Social Security numbers, credit card numbers and bank information is being recovered from discarded, sold, or donated personal computers. More than 150 million disk drives were retired from primary service in 2002. It has been estimated that over 500 million computers will be discarded in the U.S. by the year 2007.

Many of these computers are resold or donated, in part or in whole, into an active secondary market. The data on the hard disk drives of those computers is often unknowingly left intact, easily available to anyone with an interest in retrieving it.

EraseYourHardDrive.com was developed as an easy to use and affordable web-based hard disk drive erasure tool for individual and SoHo (small office/home office) IT consumers concerned with the security of data on the hard drives of their end-of-life personal computers.

EraseYourHardDrive.com offers small businesses a single-use license for a web-based, boot simulation software technology application that performs a DOD-grade hard disk drive sanitation. The single-use license is purchased for $23.95. Larger corporate users can purchase a multiple-use license and then remotely deploy it to select computers via their existing network.

Unlike similarly priced software that requires the user to physically choose what data is permanently erased, eraseyourhraddrive.com is designed to be the last program run before the computer is put out of service. It removes all data, automatically, eliminating user error that could leave sensitive information intact. Depending upon processor speed and HDD speed, the data erasure is completed in 45 to 90 minutes. Once the application has launched, the connection to the internet is terminated.

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