Secure File Deletion: How You Can Permanently Erase Files

You’ve deleted a file. That’s the end of that file. It’s gone forever, isn’t it?

Err. No. It’s still there.

You see, computers - and especially computer programmers - take short cuts. And one of the things they take a short cut on is by ignoring your command to delete a file. It doesn’t really get deleted. Occasionally, 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 passing your old PC onto someone else 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 need to make sure that they’re not kept on your hard disk any longer than needed. 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’ve got to ensure that any files that need to be deleted forever really are deleted permanently.

This means that you’re going to need some help from a software program. Unless you repeatedly format your hard drive and hit it with a big hammer until it breaks into so may pieces even the biggest jigsaw addict would give up.

Fortunately you can get some cheap software that makes securely deleting files an absolute breeze.

It will overwrite the space occupied by the file you want to delete. Not just a few times (that would still be way too easy to recover) but lots and lots of times. Once it’s done it’s job, not even the NSA’s high powered computers 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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