Get help, advice and information on all your Computers and Technology issues. http://advice-and.info/Computers-and-Technology/shredder.htm Mon, 04 Aug 2008 02:49:05 GMT en You once created a document that contains classified information, such as your credit card information, your banking details, your social security number, and the like. But because of the growing security issues all over the Internet, and the very fact that your business requires you to go online most of the day, places your system at such risk of being infiltrated. Thus, there is a need to delete that file, and other files from your computer as well. But what guarantee does the act of deletion give? Are you really sure that when you delete this file from your computer, it is completely deleted? You may think so, but in actuality, the file is still in existence to some extent. http://advice-and.info/Computers-and-Technology/81377_Free_File_Shredder_Vs_Purchased_File_Shredder.html Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:43:43 GMT You may think that the act of deleting a file permanently wipes that certain file out of its existence. This is actually a popular misconception. While the lot of computer users think that files no longer exist when you delete them from your system; in reality, they still very well exist. So, what exactly happens to the file that you deleted? This is how the whole system works: when you create a file, it is actually allotted a certain amount of space in the memory of your system. When you delete that file, you will no longer physically find that file in its original folder or location. This would give you the idea that it has been deleted from your computer already. What happens here is that the name of that file has been deleted; thus, the file is no longer easily accessed by any user. However, the space that has been originally allotted for that file still exists. And if you are an avid hacker, you can easily retrieve that deleted file from that existing space alone. This is why the simple file shredder is necessary to have. http://advice-and.info/Computers-and-Technology/79458_Why_The_Simple_File_Shredder_Is_Necessary.html Sat, 23 Feb 2008 02:46:22 GMT People make the common mistake of assuming that the deletion of a certain file is enough to completely delete it from your system. Yes, it does make sense to make that assumption. After all, when you delete a certain file from your computer, you actually transfer it from whatever local directory or folder to your systems recycle bin. And when you empty your recycle bin, you are actually emptying out its contents into oblivion. So, the file must have been deleted in the process, right? Yes, it has been deleted, and you can no longer see the name of the file, or the icon that was previously assigned to the file in any of your local disks, hard drives, or folders. Still, with the help of sophisticated software, hackers can still retrieve that deleted file easily. This is because there are still many references to that deleted file that you ca find in your system. Thus, you need to do more than plain deletion. You need to have a recycle bin shredder in your system. The recycle bin shredder does more than plain deletion of the file in question. When you create a file, no matter what type this may be, you actually allot memory space to that file. When you delete the file, its physical existence may be wiped out. However, that memory space previously allotted to it still exists. And until such time that the space would be overwritten by another created file, it would still serve as evidence of the previously deleted file. By accessing that space, the deleted file can still be retrieved, to some extent. When particular software programs are used, even the whole deleted file can be retrieved back into existence. http://advice-and.info/Computers-and-Technology/79321_The_Importance_Of_A_Recycle_Bin_Shredder.html Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:20:21 GMT A disk space shredder is your solution to ensuring that your data is wiped out securely for good. A disk space shredder can wipe information from your hard disk securely. It works by physically overwriting all files of the hard disk, thus deleting all your data and leaving no trace. These data that comprise the different information and files on the hard disk are already overwritten with random data sequences created by the disk space shredder, which makes it impossible to recover the data. In todays highly digital world, computers have played a huge role in storing a plethora of information. The role of computers has helped push what is known as information revolution. This has made information easier and more widespread to access. Computers today are being used to perform a multitude of tasks. http://advice-and.info/Computers-and-Technology/78995_Wipe_Out_Files_Permanently_With_A_Disk_Space_Shredder.html Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:38:51 GMT When you delete a file from your computer, it may seem permanent and irreversible enough, but in fact it isnt. It is still possible to recover this data through a variety of means, using software designed for this purpose. This may be helpful for accidental deletions, but when private or confidential data is involved, this represents security vulnerability. File deletion works by just changing the tag on a particular file to the value deleted, and making it inaccessible from the default set of menus and directories. However, the data and the file itself actually remain on the hard disk, and only disappear when it is overwritten in the future by new data. But this overwriting may not happen until after the file data has already been recovered! http://advice-and.info/Computers-and-Technology/76895_Super_Shredder_And_Other_File_Shredders_For_Permanent_File_Deletion.html Sun, 03 Feb 2008 08:39:58 GMT A computer file shredder has the same function as with a paper file shredder. It was created to get rid of not just the file it also erases whatever reference that may be associated to the file in its directory and history as well. A lot of computer users fail to see that a just because a file has been erased does not mean that it has already been completely eliminated. The file is still present on the disc or the hard drive, only that it no longer has a name so it cannot be easily accessed anymore. Anyone who is knowledgeable in searching computer files can fairly be able to determine where the data is located on the drive and retrieve the information as well. This basically works until the data is overwritten with other files. Remember that this may not happen for a long period of time. Even if the information may have been written over once, more often than not, information found beneath the top layer may still be accessed with the use of sophisticated equipment. http://advice-and.info/Computers-and-Technology/76740_Wipe_Out_Files_For_Good_With_A_File_Shredder.html Sat, 02 Feb 2008 12:21:32 GMT In a highly digitized world, more and more information is becoming encoded into computers. This is one of the factors that has helped to spur the so called information revolution, which made information more easily and widely accessible. In our digital age, computers are being used in a wide variety of places to perform a wide variety of tasks. One of the most important tasks that computers are often asked to perform is to store, organize, or otherwise process information. This information may be as banal as grocery lists or email messages, but may also be as vital as client information or internal communications. As computers begin to be used to handle confidential information, it becomes important to put enough security measures into place. http://advice-and.info/Computers-and-Technology/76601_How_A_Disk_Shredder_Can_Secure_Confidential_Data.html Sat, 02 Feb 2008 12:21:44 GMT Nowadays, computers seem to be everywhere. They have truly revolutionized almost every aspect of modern society, by performing certain tasks much faster and much more efficiently. Because of their great effectiveness and inherent versatility, computers have been adapted for use almost everywhere conceivable. Offices, schools, and homes have all found their own uses for computers. As computers become more and more commonplace, digital storage of data also becomes more and more the norm. Digital data is what computers can understand and use, and can be stored in a variety of media, such as a computers built-in hard disk drive, or removable devices such as CDs and flash drives. Digitizing data has the benefit of making it much easier to work with, organize, and disseminate, using computers. http://advice-and.info/Computers-and-Technology/70763_How_A_File_Shredder_Can_Help_You_Keep_Your_Data_Secure.html Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:24:51 GMT The term file shredder can now refer to a software utility designed to allow the secure deletion of files from a hard disk. This is in contrast with the delete command available in all operating systems, which actually leaves the contents of the deleted file on the disk. What seems, on the surface, like a permanent enough deletion actually leaves enough on the disk for the deleted file to be reconstructed and the date therein recovered. When you tell your operating system to delete a file, it does not actually physically erase the contents of the disk space allocated to that file. Instead, it just marks that disk space as available for storing new data, and at the same time marks the file deleted in its directory listing. Hence, it is possible to undelete a file (like the MS-DOS command goes), which would simply consist of removing the deleted tag and marking the corresponding disk space under use again. While this undelete command is not always a feature of the operating system itself, there exist third party utilities which make data recovery possible. http://advice-and.info/Computers-and-Technology/69009_On_The_Use_Of_A_File_Shredder.html Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:16:43 GMT