ShyFile - Shredder

	What do I need a File Shredder for? Once you're done with a file you delete it with your right mouse touch or you toss it into your recycling bin, and every once in a while that recycling bin is emptied. Not too many people are aware that this way the actual content of such a file has not gone. The listing of that file has just been removed from the Windows registry but the data itself remains on the disk. The first character in the file allocation (FAT) table is overwritten to signal other applications that the disk space formerly allocated to the deleted file is now available for further use. Is there software out there that can retrieve data that was previously deleted? Yes. People who have deleted a file and emptied their recycling bin mistakenly can make use of an undelete-application allowing a full recovery of the file. Subsequently, those who want to have their files gone for good will have to prepare for the worst since such sophisticated software will enable basically anyone to retrieve their sensitive data. Is there any hardware capable of restoring data from a hard drive that has been deleted and overwritten? Yes. Hard drives are magnetic storage devices, the data that is recorded leaves a magnetic trace, even after it has been deleted and subsequently overwritten. If you delete a file, and then save data over that portion of the hard drive once, most of the data would still be recoverable with special hardware. Such hardware looks for the magnetic traces of the data that was previously written on that portion of your hard drive and will eventually reconstruct the data as it was. Is there software available to prevent software as well as hardware from restoring data? Yes. ShyFile's file shredder will completely eradicate files and all their traces from your drive, irretrievable to even the most advanced methods of file recovery, regardless if software-wise or hardware-wise. How does ShyFile's file shredder work? ShyFile overwrites the portion on the hard drive that was previously allocated to the designated file with streams of junk data of different lengths, it changes the file's attributes, such as the file's name, its date stamp and its modification time. All steps of this process are repeated 7 times. Finally the file is deleted the way Windows understands it, i.e. the listing of that file is removed from the Windows registry and the first character in the file allocation (FAT) table is overwritten to signal other applications that the disk space is now available for further use.

What do I need a File Shredder for?

Once you're done with a file you delete it with your right mouse touch or you toss it into your recycling bin, and every once in a while that recycling bin is emptied. Not too many people are aware that this way the actual content of such a file has not gone. The listing of that file has just been removed from the Windows registry but the data itself remains on the disk. The first character in the file allocation (FAT) table is overwritten to signal other applications that the disk space formerly allocated to the deleted file is now available for further use.

Is there software out there that can retrieve data that was previously deleted?

Yes. People who have deleted a file and emptied their recycling bin mistakenly can make use of an undelete-application allowing a full recovery of the file. Subsequently, those who want to have their files gone for good will have to prepare for the worst since such sophisticated software will enable basically anyone to retrieve their sensitive data.

Is there any hardware capable of restoring data from a hard drive that has been deleted and overwritten?

Yes. Hard drives are magnetic storage devices, the data that is recorded leaves a magnetic trace, even after it has been deleted and subsequently overwritten. If you delete a file, and then save data over that portion of the hard drive once, most of the data would still be recoverable with special hardware. Such hardware looks for the magnetic traces of the data that was previously written on that portion of your hard drive and will eventually reconstruct the data as it was.

Is there software available to prevent software as well as hardware from restoring data?

Yes. ShyFile's file shredder will completely eradicate files and all their traces from your drive, irretrievable to even the most advanced methods of file recovery, regardless if software-wise or hardware-wise.

How does ShyFile's file shredder work?

ShyFile overwrites the portion on the hard drive that was previously allocated to the designated file with streams of junk data of different lengths, it changes the file's attributes, such as the file's name, its date stamp and its modification time. All steps of this process are repeated 7 times. Finally the file is deleted the way Windows understands it, i.e. the listing of that file is removed from the Windows registry and the first character in the file allocation (FAT) table is overwritten to signal other applications that the disk space is now available for further use.