WARNING: Avast Shredder is corrupting entire disks
I’ve used Avast Shredder on 4 different drives now — and every single time, it has corrupted the NTFS file system.
Intel SSD (Win11): Ran a “free space shred” — boom, OS corrupted, drive unusable.
Western Digital HDD: Shredded a folder — suddenly the entire folder structure collapsed. My GitHub repos were next to go.
Seagate ( with BitLocker): Plugged it in after a clean shred — encryption configs must’ve been touched. Result? Files gone, bitlocker not there, drive unreadable.
Toshiba HDD (Today): Shredded a random folder — now it’s “corrupted and unreadable.” The corruption spread beyond the folder into other private files(I shared the image).
This tool isn’t just deleting files — it’s damaging partition integrity. I’ve now had to move 400GB off a dying drive just to save what’s left.
This is not safe, not secure, and definitely not trustworthy.
If your shredder keeps doing low-level writes without respecting NTFS metadata or BitLocker configs, then it shouldn’t exist. You’re not protecting privacy — you’re wiping entire drives. Am fully up to date on the AV too, latest version.
Please REMOVE this tool or give users a massive warning — you’re destroying real people’s data. Not cool.
