![]() Overwriting it once is useful, but not as secure if you do it at least 3 times. A guy whose name I can't remember invented a secure way of doing this by literally overwriting a file 35 times, imagine the hard work you would have to do to recover it.ĭon't even bother, because after the file has been overwritten 3 times it's already pointless to try. To actually delete it completely, you need t overwrite the file. And it's much easier for the OS to simply delete the file. ![]() When you then delete that file the OS removes that pointer, and doesn't remove the file itself, because if it did, a major speed difference would occur to the OS. When you download a file or create one, the OS creates a pointer to that file so it can access it much faster. It's saved because of how the operating systems nowadays work. ![]() Not many know this, especially outside the hacking community, which is a major benefit if you ask me, as it comes as a good plus for me if I want to recover something on my friends PC that I know he recently deleted because he was émbarrassed or whatever the case may be. When you delete a file it is not removed entirely from your drive and can be recovered. Let me tell you how to get rid of it completely. What you probably don't know is when you remove a file on your system, it is actually still saved, and not entirely removed.
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