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Jan 15 2018 05:40pm
Quote (Pickupthepaste @ Jan 15 2018 06:38pm)
I wonder how much fox porn you have on your computer Joe


you have me added on your friends list but i'm lost to whom you are.
when you'd name change and from what?
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Jan 15 2018 05:45pm
Quote (Pickupthepaste @ Jan 15 2018 07:38pm)
I wonder how much fox porn you have on your computer Joe


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Jan 15 2018 07:01pm
Quote (King Atrhur @ Jan 15 2018 05:40pm)
you have me added on your friends list but i'm lost to whom you are.
when you'd name change and from what?


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Jan 15 2018 07:04pm
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He would pick a gay name
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Jan 15 2018 07:10pm
Quote (King Atrhur @ Jan 15 2018 07:04pm)
He would pick a gay name


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Jan 15 2018 07:45pm
Quote (DCSS @ Jan 15 2018 05:32pm)
delete EVERYTHING you want gone. At this point, the illegal porn files are still on the drive and recoverable... so what you need to do is start writing to the drive a LOT. Just go from empty aside from the OS to being 100% full with garbage data, then delete it all again. Do it a bunch of times to be sure. Eventually the files will be gone/unrecoverable and you will be 'dataless' save for the OS.


Don't do this. The first part is correct, as in delete the stuff you want gone, but CCleaner has a function which can do a secure wipe of free space on your drive, so any potentially recoverable files that have been "deleted" are truly gone. Just run that instead of "writing garbage data".
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Jan 15 2018 07:57pm
Quote (Surfpunk @ Jan 15 2018 09:45pm)
Don't do this. The first part is correct, as in delete the stuff you want gone, but CCleaner has a function which can do a secure wipe of free space on your drive, so any potentially recoverable files that have been "deleted" are truly gone. Just run that instead of "writing garbage data".


i don't trust a program that had as big of a security scandal as ccleaner did recently
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Jan 15 2018 08:12pm
Quote (DCSS @ Jan 15 2018 07:57pm)
i don't trust a program that had as big of a security scandal as ccleaner did recently


So use BleachBit. Or any number of programs that can do the same thing.
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Jan 15 2018 08:20pm
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So use BleachBit. Or any number of programs that can do the same thing.


for something this important i think it's better to do it yourself than to trust some closed source program to do it
do both at least

This post was edited by DCSS on Jan 15 2018 08:20pm
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#20
Jan 16 2018 05:26pm
Quote (King Atrhur @ Jan 15 2018 09:04pm)
He would pick a gay name


You're a gay name
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