Cleaning the History "Surf Track"

isofa

The police use forensic data recovery for all sorts of crimes, not just the one beginning with T! It is entirely possible using proper rigs and clean room systems to recover data from fire and water damaged hard discs, and also from HDs which have been "securely" erased - mainly due to magnetic creep across minute areas. It is a proven forensic technology, but the equipment required is highly specialised and costs a fortune. In fact you'd be amazed and how much data can be recovered.

However for a normal user, CCleaner is the simplest way to remove all temp, browsing and cache files, but there are other more secure methods.

Alienrik's suggest of Eraser is also a good one, it is an excellent secure deletion system.

Marty_J

isofa wrote: »

The police use forensic data recovery for all sorts of crimes, not just the one beginning with T! It is entirely possible using proper rigs and clean room systems to recover data from fire and water damaged hard discs, and also from HDs which have been "securely" erased - mainly due to magnetic creep across minute areas. It is a proven forensic technology, but the equipment required is highly specialised and costs a fortune. In fact you'd be amazed and how much data can be recovered.

Two interesting articles about recovering over-written data:

http://www.nber.org/sys-admin/overwritten-data-guttman.html

http://searchwindowsserver.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid68_gci1246592,00.html

Apparently no one has ever demonstrated that they can recover data once it has been over-written.

aliEnRIK

The one on the 'eraser' site REALLY goes into it
http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec96/full_papers/gutmann/

Marty_J

aliEnRIK wrote: »

The one on the 'eraser' site REALLY goes into it
http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec96/full_papers/gutmann/

That's the Peter Gutmann paper, referenced and debunked in both of the links I posted above.

aliEnRIK

Marty_J wrote: »

That's the Peter Gutmann paper, referenced and debunked in both of the links I posted above.

Apologies Marty. I admit I didnt read any of them (Too tired for starters)

So we're back to where we started then?
As in once overwritten its near impossible to retrieve?

SimbaSimon

Yep CCleaner is the balls, if you want added security you can select high security mode where it overwrites each file 8 times

superscaper

punkstoner wrote: »

hehe. What have you been looking at !!

If its anything illegal, i would not chance it. chuck the hard drive off the end of a pier and get a new one.

Well going by the other threads she's started (spying on people, blocking web access, hiding IP) as well as changing her story on them, it does sound as if there's something very dodgy going on.

robt_2

superscaper wrote: »

Well going by the other threads she's started (spying on people, blocking web access, hiding IP) as well as changing her story on them, it does sound as if there's something very dodgy going on.

Agreed.

Certainly someone I don't want to be seen to be helping in any way.