The Difference Between Deleting And Shredding Data May Mean The Difference Between Securing Your Bank Account And Becoming An Identity Theft Victim!
Users think that placing a file into the recycle bin and then emptying the contents is all that they need to do to delete a file. Performing the right mouse click and selecting delete for a file also makes the file vanish and you are safe.
You’d better think again – the information is still there you just cannot see it because performing a file delete in Windows only acts to tell Windows XP not to display the file on your desktop or in the folder contents on your PC screen.
The actual fact is that the information is still there on the hard drive and with one of the hundreds of free file recovery programs available anyone can recovery your data. Imagine you are just upgrading to Vista from XP and you need to upgrade your machine to something Vista ready. Many people look to sell their old PC and format the hard drive or delete the user data and think “OK, this is all gone.” Now imagine someone decides to run a file recovery on your machine and they have now recovered your folder with...