Re: Computer questions
Dhud...<br /><br />Simply deleting those files does NOT get rid of them. They are still on your hard drive and intact. The trained individual or determined hacker can still get to it if you are not fire-walled, or someone has physical access to your computer.<br /><br />Find a program called "ENCASE"... <br />It's software that law enforcement use (or did use) that recovers that deleted information.<br />Encase can scan sector by sector of your hard drive and find deleted files. Once found, you can view them and delete them for good.<br /><br />It takes a bit to learn the program, but if you're worried about your computer being compromised, you might want to give it a shot.<br /><br />I learned about it from a web site that deals with being totally anonymous on the internet.<br />I was amazed how much stuff was still left on my hardrive AFTER I deleted it and used other so-called "cleaner" programs.<br /><br />There may be other types of 'cop' software like Encase. Search the net.<br /><br />You could also re-format your drive. That will get rid of the information too, but it will obviously wipe out everything else.<br /><br />Windows is notorious for leaving stuff all over and never really gets rid of stuff.<br />For most of us, cleaning the cache, recycle bin, and temp files is usually sufficient.<br />There's lots of information on the net about this issue, just do a Google search.<br /><br />Good luck,<br /><br />H.
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