Secure File Deletion: How You Can Permanently Delete Files

OK, you’ve highlighted a file and pressed “delete”. That’s the end of that file. It’s no longer available to anyone, is it?

Well actually, no It’s still there.

The problem with computers is that they take short cuts. And one of the short cuts is by ignoring your command to delete a file. It doesn’t really get deleted. At times, this is useful because it means you can undelete a file that you’ve accidentally deleted.

But how can you make sure that a deleted file stays completely deleted? Maybe you’re selling your computer and you’d rather the new owner had no chance of finding out all of your passwords and logins. Maybe you had some confidential documents from your company 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, just hitting the delete button isn’t good enough.

Unless you are 100% certain that your computer will only ever be used by you and you alone, 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. 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 will give you the same kind of file security the government would expect to use.

It will randomly write data to the area on your hard disk your file used to occupy. Not just once or twice (that wouldn’t be foolproof) but lots and lots of times. Once it’s finished, not even the most powerful computers in the world would be able to read the contents of the file.

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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