Cleaning a Computer

[jeliner]

When it comes to the world of fitness/bodybuilding, I am clueless. I am learning a lot on this site and from my personal trainer and I can tell I have a whole lot more to learn.

I was reading through a few articles and e-books that covered the subject of privacy. Using encryption, anonymous email ect… and thought I might be able to contribute some useful information.

My background is in application development… so, all that I read about privacy protection as it relates to computer/electronic information makes a ton of since.

I remember reading someplace on this site about a recommendation of formatting your hard drives, deleting cookies/history ect… The problem in the computer world is that delete and format doesn’t really mean unrecoverable.

Several months back I upgraded an older system from a Windows ME Fat 32 to Windows XP NTFS environment. Not only did I format the drives partition using a different file system, I also deleted the partition entirely when converting… and I was still able to recover the 100 or so MP3s that I forgot to backup.

If you wish to make something unrecoverable by any means – even by some of the most high-end recover tools I would suggest using a disk scrambler. The one I use is from http://www.cyberscrub.com/. It takes it a while for it to do the 1st clean run … but if you use it consistently, it will make sure that everything you delete – remains deleted… no matter what. It will add a menu options to your trash can… erase beyond recovery. U can use that option to wipe the drive clean of the files you wish to erase…

 

[mikey007]

Evidence Eliminator is really good too............

 

[bullcocky]

On the CyberScrub, if you let the Privacy Guard start cleaning, does it wipe out all the files on you computer???.............if not, what is the purpose for it and what does it do?

 

[liquidmuscle]

what could i do to erase absolutly everything? my girl finds shit i thought i delete,,,even in the recycle bin ...she then finds it somewhere else..how?

 

[wtlftr]

empty the recycle bin.

I use many things to erase items. i have a hard time buying online because of suspected hidden spyware

 

[mikey007]

I run evidence eliminator also real good program............................

 

[Phaded]

those all say they delete the shit but they really dont if a computer forensic analyst wanted to get something from your harddrive they could.. i used to frequent random forums and something that cc fraudsters would use is called drivecrypt.. it encrypts your entire harddrive its pretty pricey but if you are paranoid it might work for you.. however i dont think steroids is that big of a deal to have to encrypt your files etc.. my 2 posted

 

[dice04]

what could i do to erase absolutly everything? my girl finds shit i thought i delete,,,even in the recycle bin ...she then finds it somewhere else..how?

I recommend Windows Washer...This little program deletes cookies..IE History..recently used files the works...It's pretty good..That should be enough.... You canuse hidden folders in Windows if your Wife is not that technical to hide fotos or whatever...If your wife finds stuff after that then she's some kind of Techie Guru and you SOL my man! LOL

You can get Windows Washer at http://www.webroot.com/downloads/