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In today’s newspapers, there are many
articles about how people have been able to retrieve information
like credit card numbers, financial data, and social security
numbers from old computers that have been discarded by their
owners. Fortunately there’s some really good software
that will “scrub” the data for you to give you piece
of mind before you get rid of your PC, and in a moment we’ll
give you our recommendations.
How scrubbing software works
Whenever you delete a file in Windows, it is not erased from
your hard drive. Although it’s still physically there,
Windows no longer recognizes it and that’s why you can’t
see it. The bad news is that it’s fairly easy for someone
to find that file using restoration software that is freely
available today.
The good news is that there is software
on the market that does a very good job of scrubbing your
data. In fact, the Department of Defense has established specific
levels of “scrubbing” which virtually eliminate
the possibility of data recovery, and many of these products
can achieve these levels.
Detto announces SecureClean,
which cleans personal data and Internet tracks from your PC.
Detto also recommends East-Tec's Disk Sanitizer
(www.east-tec.com) and
Vcomm's Disk(www.v-com.com),
as two of the best products in their class.
If
you still need assistance, please contact us via email at
migration@detto.com.
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