OK, you’ve highlighted a file and pressed “delete”. So that’s it. It’s gone forever, isn’t it?
Err. No. It’s still on your hard drive.
You see, computers - and especially computer programmers - take short cuts. And one of the short cuts is by ignoring your command to delete a file. It doesn’t really get deleted. Sometimes, this can be useful as it means that if you didn’t really want to delete a file, no problem.
But how can you make sure that a deleted file stays completely deleted? Maybe you’re selling your computer 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 it’s some email correspondence you don’t want anyone else to get hold of.
No matter the reason, simply pressing the delete button just won’t do the job properly.
Unless you can guarantee that no-one else will ever have access to your computer, you need to make sure that the files you want deleted actually get removed totally.
Far and away the best way to do this is by using a software program. Unless you repeatedly format your hard drive and then splinter it into thousands of little pieces, there’s no way you can do this on your own.
Fortunately you can get some cheap software that will give you the same kind of file security the government would expect to use.
It will overwrite the space occupied by the file you want to delete. Not just a couple times (that’s still too easy to recover) but lots and lots of times. Once it’s finished, not even the most powerful computers in the world would have the slightest clue about the file’s contents.
Which means if you want to be completely certain that your files are permanently deleted, you need to download this software!
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