
Annihilator is a full-featured file deletion application that allows users to eliminate any showings of file contents presence after the deletion process. The program performs overwriting process in a number of iterations for extra reliability before deleting, thus making virtually impossible for sensitive data to be recovered. Annihilator has a user-friendly and familiar interface in a style of Windows Explorer, a shell integration ability is also provided in the package. Other features included in the current version are several overwriting methods and schemes, iterations number tuning, an extra options for file renaming before deletion.

Annihilator 1.0 was released by SafeDelete Software on Saturday 13 April 2002. Its known requirements are : No special requirements.
Annihilator will run on Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows NT and Windows XP.