"Photo exposure" comes from the recycle bin to close the privacy door of your computer

The cause of the sensation was recently revealed by Edison Chen. Originally, those privacy photos that have been deleted by Chen were restored!

Coincidentally, in last year's hit movie "jailbreak", Michael dumped his computer hard drive into the river, and FBI agents were still able to recover data. Not long ago, a large foreign second-hand storage device dealer also revealed that 30% of the second-hand hard disks traded by the transaction were detected to contain sensitive information of the original hard disk owner!

These vivid cases tell us the fact that the data stored on the device may be partially or completely recovered even after being deleted in the recycle bin. That is to say, you may be sold out by your computer hard drive at any time. So how can ordinary users protect their privacy? We invited Dr. Shi Xiaohong, a 360 security expert, to introduce some tips for thoroughly deleting private data.

First, for users who intend to change their new computers, the old machines are usually processed at a low price. For example, they only delete the original files and clear the recycle bin ", although it is better than the artist in "yanzhaomen", it is still unable to cope with the "coming back to spring" of data recovery software such as EasyRecovery and FindData, selecting low-level hard disk formatting should be the most thorough method.

The common low-level format chemical industry has LFORMAT, DM, and various hard disk tools released by hard disk manufacturers. After installation and use, the original data in the hard disk will disappear.

For users who are about to switch jobs, formatting low-level office computer hard disks is a bit overbearing. After all, this is a kind of operation that consumes hard drive life, what's more, the data to be cleared is mostly documents of office software such as Word, which is not as complicated as deleting private computer files.

In this case, you can open the document to be completely deleted, delete all the original content, or enter some letters to replace it, and then press save, after a new file with the same name is deleted, even if it can be restored by the data recovery software, the restored file content is nothing more than meaningless blank, so the computer can safely transfer it out.

In addition to the aforementioned low-case deletion and manual coverage deletion methods, common software such as 360 security guard also provides privacy protection functions. If you need to permanently delete videos and other files, you can open "advanced"-"advanced tool set" in 360 security guard. The "file Crusher" can almost smash all stubborn files, you can drag multiple files into the crushing list at a time.
As the files to be crushed cannot be recovered, readers should choose carefully before applying them.

In addition, various traces of computer use may expose your privacy, such as opening history records of documents, various browser access history, and use records of other software such as players, regular cleaning of such traces also requires readers to develop safe computer usage habits. 360 security guard, Windows cleanup assistant and other software provide corresponding functions, you can clear the hidden "computer usage traces" at one time ".