Erases partitions, logical drives and even unused disk space.Wipes out all floppies and hard disk drives completely by secure overwriting data on physical level using data destruction method.

Detects and displays information about all partitions, hard disks and floppy drives currently connected to your computer.

If you use FDISK, FORMAT utilities, or DELETE standard operating system command for data removal, there is always a chance to recover deleted data (using undelete file or some data recovery software) and use against your will.

-cs: Copy program folder settings.KillDisk is a hard drive and partition eraser utility that allows you to destroy all data on hard and floppy drives completely, excluding any possibility of future recovery of deleted files and folders.

-no-shut-down: if a malicious change on the USB ports is detected, execute all the (destructive) commands you defined in settings.ini, but don’t turn off the computer.

-version: show version of the program, exit.

Supported command line arguments (partially for devs):

No dependency except secure-delete iff you want usbkill to delete files/folders for you or if you want to wipe RAM or swap.

Ability to melt the program on shut down.

Ability to change the check interval (default: 250ms).

Define which commands should be executed just before shut down.

Shutdown the computer when there is USB activity.

If they steal your computer, the USB will be removed and the computer shuts down immediately. Then insert the key into your computer and start usbkill. Tip: Additionally, you may use a cord to attach a USB key to your wrist.

Full disk encryption is the easiest and surest option if available Important: Make sure to use disk encryption for all folders that contain information you want to be private.

You want to improve the security of your (encrypted) home or corporate server (e.g.

You don’t want someone to add or copy documents to or from your computer via USB.

The police commonly uses a « mouse jiggler » to keep the screensaver and sleep mode from activating.

In case the police or other thugs come busting in (or steal your laptop from you when you are at a public library, as happened to Ross).

Related project same idea, but implemented as a Linux driver: Why?

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