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File Monster
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Version
2.0
When you delete files using normal deletion methods,
you leave all the information in those files readily
available to anyone with access to your computer! File
Monster, on the other hand, completely erases files
from your system -- actually overwriting the
information in the file. The reason your data is still
available when you delete files with normal deletion
methods is because the procedure only tells the
operating system to not recognize the file as being
present anymore; however, the data contained in those
files hasn't truly been erased and anyone with a little
knowledge of computers can very easily get the data back.
Often the first place someone that wants to retrieve
information from your computer is going to look is at
the information in the "deleted" files. After all, you
just tipped them off that those files were important
enough to you that you tried to erase them. Some
questions you have to ask yourself: 1. Is there
information on your computer that you don't want just
anyone to have access to? 2. When you leave your
office at night, just who has access to your computer?
3. Do you trust that neighbor that comes over to your
house to use (or fix) your computer? How about your
roommate? 4. Do you trust the people you give your
computer to when something needs installed or fixed?
Now maybe these people will just snoop around -- or
maybe they'll take the information they collect for
their own use, or they'll use the information they find
against you!
To take your privacy a step further, File Monster not
only erases all the data in that file so that it cannot
be recovered, it also overwrites the original file name
with a randomly generated name and it changes the
file's creation date. If you have files on your system
that are confidential (or just plain personal) and you
do not want to leave to chance that someone can easily
recover the information in them after you have
"deleted" them, then File Monster will be an essential
tool!
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