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I brought my computer in for a repair and the man who fixed it said he was laughing at the crazy Internet sites we (My brother and Sister and I ) had visited and all the porn images. He showed us where on the computer all kinds of images were from all the crazy websites we visited. These were downloaded images but none of us remember saving any of these pictures they just showed up on the screen after we put in the website address or clicked on the link. I clear the cache and delete the history on a regular basis but these website pictures seemed to stay on the computer.
We are buying a new computer and are afraid my folks who are getting our old computer will be able to access these crazy downloads.
Never ever give or sell a computer with your info still on the hard drive!!
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It's little known today but many states require computer repair shops to scan your hard drive for child porn to find sex addicts or offenders. As long as it's adult porn nothing will be said in most cases but don't even think about child porn unless you like jail.
If you are maintating a computer and you want to removed cached files:
1. Download and use Firefox instead of IE. Change the Privacy settings to delete everything each time you close 'Fox.
2. Download and install ccleaner. Run it periodically and it will delete things such as flash temp files (often left behind from watching videos) as well as all other temp files. CCleaner - Home
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Originally Posted by A Loner
We are buying a new computer and are afraid my folks who are getting our old computer will be able to access these crazy downloads.
Hope you know how to do this, but ...
The only way to make sure you *give away* an old computer, is to give it with a complete reformat and re-install of the Operating System ONLY.
Unless you have been *inheriting* everything, you should have an original disk of the Operating System, or there should be a separate sector that allows you to *recover* your system.
Do that, and *nothing* of your old escapades, are left over ....
Nope. A simple reformat wipes and re-initializes the FAT (file allocation table) but doesn't remove the files or file fragments. Also, in a forensics lab, even overwritten files can be recovered. The head can have miniscule variations in where it writes. When an overwrite is done, a little bit of the old track is often left on one side or the other of the new track.
The theory of many of the "disk cleaners", is that if you overwrite enough times with random data, you will make those traces harder to find.
The best way to wipe a hard drive is with an eight pound sledge hammer and an angle grinder.
The only way to make sure you *give away* an old computer, is to give it with a complete reformat and re-install of the Operating System ONLY.
Unless you have been *inheriting* everything, you should have an original disk of the Operating System, or there should be a separate sector that allows you to *recover* your system.
Do that, and *nothing* of your old escapades, are left over ....
Anyone with knowledge or a search engine can get data off of a formatted hard drive, extrememly easy to do, whether they'd want to or not is a different story
I think you need to put this in perspective. Could, or would, your folks look for deleted data? If not, you could create two new user accounts (named MOM and DAD?). Then you could restart, log in to the MOM account and delete the accounts for LOSER, BROTHER and SISTER. After that, open the folder with the user accounts data and delete the LOSER, BROTHER and SISTER folders.
You have to make Mom and Dad promise to let you destroy the data using something like DBAN when the computer is no longer useful.
Sometimes we try very hard to make things complicated.
how does one go about finding all these hidden and(thought to be deleted ) images?
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