Many businesses sell or give away their old computers without realising that the hard drives probably contain confidentail information about their business.

Be aware that formatting a hard disk, or deleting the data does NOT remove this data from the disk. It is easy to recover.

We suggest that you either sell the computer without the hard disk, or use a special program to totally “shred” the files contained on the hard disk so that the contents cannot be restored. Pay a visit to www.download.com or your favorite software source, and search for programs using the search term “file deletion”

Choose a program that will overwrite the files several times, and make them unrecoverable. After all, you wouldn’t want to breach the privacy act by allowing private information to get out of your business.
Would you!