You’ve deleted a file. So that’s it. It’s no longer available to anyone, is it?
Well actually, no It’s still on your hard drive.
The problem with computers is that they take short cuts. And one of the short cuts is that they don’t actually delete a file when you click delete. Sometimes, this is good because it means you can undelete a file that you’ve accidentally deleted.
But what can you do if you want to completely obliterate all traces of a file? Maybe you’re passing your old PC onto someone else and you don’t want the new owner to have access to all your passwords. Maybe you had a number of confidential files from work and you want to make sure that no-one else gets access to them. Maybe you’ve deleted some emails that you don’t want anyone to be able to read.
Whatever the reason, simply pressing the delete button just won’t do the job properly.
Unless you are 100% certain that your computer will only ever be used by you and you alone, you’ve got to ensure that any files that need to be deleted forever really are deleted permanently.
Far and away the best way to do this is by using a software program. The only other way is to format your hard disk tens of times and then splinter it into thousands of little pieces, there’s no way you can do this on your own.
Fortunately you can download some affordable software that makes securely deleting files an absolute breeze.
It will overwrite the space occupied by the file you want to delete. Not just a couple times (that wouldn’t be foolproof) but time after time after time. Once it’s done it’s job, not even the most powerful computers in the world would be able to read the contents of the file.
So if you’ve got files you want to delete forever, you need to download this software!
