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 HOW CAN YOU "CLEAN" COMPUTER?
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Amateur Bodybuilder 
Posts: 96 |
I am not talking about windex here guys. My source is in trouble and i need to get rid of stuff. Please help if you can, i am a novice.     | ||
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Elite Bodybuilder 
Posts: 944 |
Even if it is cleaned all the information you delete will be able to be restored in most cases. Bump, I need to permanently clean mine too. ------------------ | ||
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Novice 
Posts: 8 |
www.webroot.com Use the window Washer ------------------ | ||
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Guru 
Posts: 2022 |
by deleting it can be brought back, but I don't THINK that they can if you rewrote over a .txt, or if you did a full reformat...not 100% sure tho.
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Amateur Bodybuilder
Posts: 148 |
Not trying to be a smart ass here, but if you are genuinely concerned about being in trouble. Get rid of it bro.... Sorry this is the best advice I can give you... ------------------ | ||
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Pro Bodybuilder 
Posts: 306 |
http://www.zdnet.com/downloads/stories/info/0,,000RIF,.html ------------------ | ||
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Amateur Bodybuilder
Posts: 232 |
if there are any computer gurus out there then maybe you can help me. i accidentally deleted about 5 things the other day and they are very important for me for school. i've heard that if you downloaded it then it is still possible to retrieve it. anybody know how i would go about this? thanx | ||
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Novice
Posts: 3 |
Yank your hard drive and get another one. If you want to keep it a little longer, but you want to be able to wipe it clean if the FEDs are knocking on your door, download a virus on a floppy from a hacker's website. They have some that will kill your hard drive the instant it's opened. I mean, completely kill! | ||
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Cool Novice 
Posts: 31 |
what folder did u download it too and if you dont know check your temp folder in your windows folderand if you want to have everything deleted you can reformat your system but before you reformat the hard drive u need to rewrite zero's to it first.. | ||
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Cool Novice
Posts: 20 |
Get a program called EVIDENCE ELIMINATOR at www.evidenceeliminator.com This should solve ALL your problems. SS | ||
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Amateur Bodybuilder
Posts: 103 |
dsnuts, it doesn't matter anyway, your using aol for email, they can get log files of your emails and will! and not just when/who it was sent to and when read, the subject & message body. ------------------ | ||
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Amateur Bodybuilder
Posts: 236 |
I agree with Rocco, if you really think the heat is coming....get that computer out of your house. Even if the harddrive is formated, they can still pull stuff out of it. You could also stash it at a friend's house for safekeeping until the pressure blows over. Second best thing is to get a new hard-drive. | ||
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Freak 
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http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-10096-100-1430202.html?tag=st.dl.10001-103-1.lst-7-6.1430202 | ||
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Cool Novice
Posts: 38 |
No commercial apps can prevent low-level restructering of data from a disk. It's a very simple problem. Disks are magnetic, every time you write to a disk you alter the magnetic properties of a small section of a platter. When you erase, wipe, PGP-wipe, Eliminate, Wash any section of the platter you simply re-arrange that area to be illegible by the computer. But not other devices that can reverse engineer the magnetic media. But, if you have a low-level disk assay machine, you can very easily pick out all the data that was on that platter/disk/zone/node and write it to another disk. The cost of data recovery isn't very expensive either. If you're not in a hurry it'll run from 200-500 USD, if you want it same day 3000-15000 depending on volume and data size. | ||
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Elite Bodybuilder
Posts: 763 |
It would be cheaper just to get a new hard drive and install that. Just save your old hard drive and stick it back in there long after everything blows over. -TG | ||
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Novice
Posts: 5 |
Who else thought this was going to be a GHB thread?????LOL hopefully I'm not the only one, if so you know what I'm thinking about. | ||
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Elite Bodybuilder
Posts: 749 |
In an emergency..wouldn't a strong magnet run over the hard drive do the trick?? ------------------ | ||
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Pro Bodybuilder
Posts: 346 |
dsnuts, For the sake of the people here, post the guys email addy with afew ** for some of the letters so the guys who know him will stay away. ------------------ | ||
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Amateur Bodybuilder
Posts: 136 |
i hear rejoov works well to clean your hard drives!! J.K. | ||
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Elite Bodybuilder
Posts: 1042 |
Use Windows Washer or BCWIPE . www.bcwipe.com | ||
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Cool Novice
Posts: 38 |
The Phantom: Nope. Well, if you own a magnet that strong I would be very surprised. I forgot the exact strength needed to completely rearrange a drives poles, but it is pretty stinkin' strong. | ||
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Amateur Bodybuilder
Posts: 56 |
If he's really concerned then just toss the harddrive. They're so cheap now, it's not even worth screwing around with if the FEDs are getting involved. If you're just concerned, then do a low-level format and reinstall your software. Yes, it is still possible to restore your data, but it's friggen difficult and unpredictable. Unless you're a really big fish, I don't think they'd even bother. In general, keep your information OFF your computer. Don't use hotmail, use hushmail/zipmail. Delete your internet cache (in IE it's under Tools/Internet Options), and keep your computer clean to begin with. my $.02 ------------------ | ||
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Freak
Posts: 1535 |
The object to get rid of all erased data is to format the drive and write O's across the entire drive and then write 1's across the entire drive. If you do this there is no way of getting ANY data off the drive. It's the governments standard. Norton makes one I know for sure. Later, Green ------------------ I GET MAD!!!! | ||
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Cool Novice
Posts: 38 |
Green, Sorry bro, the 0's and 1's thing is an urban legend. Writing to a disk with anything is simply that, just writing. You can still send the drive off to any data recovery corporation along with a PO number and get pretty much anything off the drive. The governement's process for removing data off a disk is to obliterate the disk, trust me, I know. I used to work for DoD (DISA, NRO, DMDC, Snet, and the state department) and the NSA routinely adivises each and every department to obliterate obsolete disks. [This message has been edited by Code-Code (edited January 04, 2001).] | ||
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Pro Bodybuilder
Posts: 467 |
Hard drives are really cheap now. Just get a new one. Some of the drive wiping utilities do a great job, but how good of a job do thye really do. I never tried once and had limited success. ------------------ | ||
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Amateur Bodybuilder
Posts: 213 |
TXrugby, yes there are ways, try looking in your recycle bin. If it aint there, d/l a program that recovers deleted files. DSnuts, get a new HD. Or full format it. | ||
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Pro Bodybuilder
Posts: 523 |
HAHA get PGP 7.0 or 6.5.8 DUHHHHHHH Well the FBI dropped by a friends house about 9 months ago and took his computer because he was doing something "illegal" (THE STUPID BASTARD DIDN'T USE A PROXY) and the FBI keeps postponing the court date because he locked his computer up with some powerfulL algor's with PGP. GET PGP AND NO ONE CAN GET YOUR SHIT UNLESS YOU STOLE A COUPLE HUNDRED MILLION BUCKS THEN THEY MIGHT USE ENOUGH PROCESSING POWER TO CRACK YOUR PASSPHRASE. | ||
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Amateur Bodybuilder
Posts: 110 |
Check out serfsecret.com they have a free 30 day download and they are suppost to delet your entire history. But fuck it just to be safe im going with evidence eliminater. | ||
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Elite Bodybuilder
Posts: 618 |
My step mother goes to classes with the government geeks and she says if they want you.....they have you, bottom line. You can wipe and rewrite and they can still get fingerprints and ghosts and shit I don't understand. Throw the fucker out. That's why they take the puter when they get you. Most of your shit is stored someplace else anyway. Get a new hard drive maybe? | ||
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Cool Novice
Posts: 30 |
u dont need to buy a new harddrive. just take the windows recovery disk and put it in the computer while it is booting up. the setup should come on and it will tell u that it will erase everything that is saved, it will put u back to when u first got the comp. and for the guy that wanted to get his downloads back for school: go to the temp internet files file, i think it is in the windows folder. that might work. email me for anymore questions or just post them. | ||
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Pro Bodybuilder
Posts: 346 |
First off, PLEASE post part of the sources Email addy for the sake of the people here. Second: The Feds aren't going to bust in and take your computer away from you because you ordered some shit from him before. If you are that worried, or you had something to do with the bust (your shit got seized etc etc) just open the damn puter up and unplug the drive--take it to a friends house and wait till it all blows over. ------------------ | ||
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Cool Novice
Posts: 28 |
just dump the drive and be done with it! |
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posted January 04, 2001 09:45 AM
