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| Features of Erase Beyond Recovery |
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| Deleting a file using the Windows operating system does not remove the file contents from your hard drive. It simply prevents you from accessing the file. As a result, sensitive and private information can be easily retrieved by almost anyone. |
| The Erase Beyond Recovery feature ensures that previously deleted files are removed from your computer beyond recovery. |
| Please note that running the Erase Beyond Recovery feature on large drives can take a long time. However, this disadvantage can be overcome by scheduling the erasing process at times when the computer is not used or only at the end of the day (or of the week). |
| Note: The Erase Beyond Recovery feature is not available in the Basic Edition of CyberScrub Privacy Suite. |
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Overview of the Erase Beyond Recovery feature |
| Previously deleted information and files are usually stored in the following locations on the computer hard disk (hard drive): |
- The Recycle Bin: When you delete a file, Windows usually moves it to the Recycle Bin instead of removing it from disk. The files stored in the Recycle Bin are removed from disk when you empty the Recycle Bin.
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- The disk free space: The free space on disk usually contains the contents of the files that were previously deleted using standard operating system commands. Some of them were temporary files used by applications; these temporary files were created and deleted without your knowledge. You see now that the disk free space is not at all "empty"; it may contain passwords, financial records, personal files, etc. In short, it contains sensitive data that can be restored using a simple disk utility.
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- The file slack: The file slack is usually filled with random information from your computer. This information can be a listing of a directory, part of a password file or other sensitive data.
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- File/Folder names and properties. After deleting files and folders on FAT or NTFS drives, recovery utilities may still be able to find the names and properties of deleted files and folders, even if they are not able to recover any information from their contents. In this way the identity of the erased files and folders can be revealed.
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How to use the Erase Beyond Recovery feature |
| First open the Erase Beyond Recovery dialog box, by clicking on the 'Erase Beyond Recovery' button or by selecting the 'Erase Beyond Recovery' command from the Erase menu. |
| If you want to destroy the contents of all the files stored in the Recycle Bin and then remove them from disk, select the 'Destroy all files from the Recycle Bin beyond recovery' option. |
| Then select one or more drives from the drives list box and click on the Start button to start destroying the previously "deleted" information from the selected drives. For maximum security, you should select to wipe both the disk free space and the slack portion of existing files. |
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| If you want to remove any file attributes that may reveal the identity of the erased file or folder, select the 'Scramble files and folders properties (name, data, size ...)' option. When this option is enabled, the file and folder properties are destroyed (scrambled). |
| IMPORTANT: Before running the "Erase Beyond Recovery" feature close all running applications (programs). Running applications may create temporary files that could store sensitive data. CyberScrub Privacy Suite cannot destroy the contents of these sensitive files if the applications that created them are currently running. Running applications also store data in the Windows swap file (the file used for virtual memory support). That part of the swap file cannot be wiped while those applications are running. |
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