What is the best Freeware Secure Delete program to choose and?
What is it that you want deleted? There are several secure delete programs. When you delete a file in Windows, the file itself is not deleted; rather, Windows removes one character from the file name. The space where the file is saved on the hard drive is marked as available for use. Only when you save another file over it, do you really delete the orginial file. What secure deletion (a.k.a privacy tools) programs do is to write over the “deleted” file over and over again with multiple passes. The result is that it is very hard to piece back the orginial file. The US Department of Defense standard is 3 passes, the National Security Agency standard is 7 passes. There are several free tools. If you want to delete only selected files then CCleaner (a.k.a. Crap Cleaner) is a good choice. It will delete temporary internet files, temporary files, history, cookies and whatever file you want to delete. CCleaner can delete files with up to 7 passes. If you want to wipe clean an entire hard driv
