Safecleaner

SafeCleaner

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Whenever you 'delete' a file, no matter how many times you empty your recycle bin, the file is not really deleted. Instead, the Operative System (Windows) 'forgets' about the file, not linking to it or showing it anymore, and overwriting it with new data if (and only if) it needs to. However, most of the time, Windows does not require the space that the deleted file still occupies. And meanwhile the data of the file remains untouched, as if it had not been deleted.

A large number of programs, usually known as Data Recovery software, are able to scan the hard drive for these 'deleted' files, and restore them. Any person which access to the computer, including unauthorized ones, through the use of malicious software, can potentially and easily recover, view and distribute (if they so wish) deleted documents, images, videos, and other types of files. There have even been cases of certain viruses remotely and automatically recovering files with financial information, and distributing the

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