Deleted files not really deleted, stored in "secret" folder...

http://www.geocities.com/spacepirate...uritynews.html

for more information, it contains some information about it, but most importently it has
the link to the actual article...















www.spacepirateyar.com----woohoo, gotta love those free TK re-directors.

wow - now here is a real treasure chest of information. LOL - in almost ALL cases, when I file is "deleted" it is not actually "deleted", rather just the file pointer is removed. the actuall data remains until it's physical address is over written.

I use a little program called east-tec eraser and it overwrites the files to your specs BUT the name of the file is still retrievable



whoops i read the article after I posted about deletions-talking about wrong deletions-Spybot search and destroy can take out the registry streams of where youve been and I don't use outlook so I don't know about that--but when i run spybot before I log off there is an amazing amount of stuff stored and this is after i flush the cache and cookies and regular history :(

I believe there have been MANY MANY discussions about this on here...

Even though this has been discussed before, this again brings up the question of redundant threads. If the quality of the information is helpful, I generally am not bothered by repetative and/or redundant threads on occasion. Also, considering it's Divine's first post here at AO, I think it's a good start. At least it's not some thread about phone phreaking, hacking hotmail accounts, etc.

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Originally posted here by avenger_jcc
I believe there have been MANY MANY discussions about this on here...

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Yup....

But most were a lot more lively then this one !!

BTW the article is quite good.. just a bit outdated (would have been a good read in 1998 or 1999 ;))

I use Norton System Works to delete those (not) deleted files. It automaticly delete the file's after 7 days :D

The more updated version can be found on:
http://www.****microsoft.com/content...en-files.shtml

The actual text has been posted on AO before but I could not find it.

Is this version of the paper applicable to Windows XP? If not, is there a paper that is?

Thanks,
Matt

"with windows 9X in mind but not limited to"-qoute from the article/tutorial
not sure, i have Windows ME/Mandrake Linux 8.1.....mmm duel boot goodness!
anyway, it should, windows XP doesnt really differ from any other versions[atleast not anything REALY note-able...but dont blame me if it doesnt work...hehe]...you also could try the
"Updated" version that Noodle posted above...Meh.