How do you erase your past on your hard drive...
- Thread starter Wilson
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Theres a program called Eraser I haved used for a while now, it is available at http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/
Basically instead of just erasing something from your hard drive, it actually takes that segment of hard drive, and re writes 1's and 0's over that same sector 7 times. It makes it impossible to recover any data you erase, so be careful, none of the undelete programs will work anymore if you chose to use this.
Basically instead of just erasing something from your hard drive, it actually takes that segment of hard drive, and re writes 1's and 0's over that same sector 7 times. It makes it impossible to recover any data you erase, so be careful, none of the undelete programs will work anymore if you chose to use this.
No job is worth breaching an internet policy. No matter how much you delete, they know what you are doing, believe me.
BUT, get a good disk scrubber. Something like Killdisk. It uses an encryption algorithm to delete and rewrite additional data to the erased blocks. Unfortunately, it works on the entire disk not individual files. Another option (for files only) is to use something like Iolo's system mechanic (free use for 30 days) and drag stuff into its incinerator. Set the incinerator to about 10 passes per and be prepared to let it run for a while. Casual recovery of the incinerated data is impossible. Nothing however, can prevent a true expert at data recovery, i.e., The Military, FBI, NSA, etc., from retrieving data. I doubt though, that the NSA would be interested in how many times you've climaxed on the internet. *G*
BUT, get a good disk scrubber. Something like Killdisk. It uses an encryption algorithm to delete and rewrite additional data to the erased blocks. Unfortunately, it works on the entire disk not individual files. Another option (for files only) is to use something like Iolo's system mechanic (free use for 30 days) and drag stuff into its incinerator. Set the incinerator to about 10 passes per and be prepared to let it run for a while. Casual recovery of the incinerated data is impossible. Nothing however, can prevent a true expert at data recovery, i.e., The Military, FBI, NSA, etc., from retrieving data. I doubt though, that the NSA would be interested in how many times you've climaxed on the internet. *G*
If you are not part of their network, what are you worried about. Sorry if I missed something.KMA is correct that it is not worth the chance. Buy your own computer and get your own service if you want to fool around. Small price to pay.
