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04-01-2004, 04:21 PM
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Certified Audio Nut
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Completely removing Kazaa and some questionable files
A friend of mine, without my knowledge, used Kazaa Lite on my other computer to download some very questionable content of which I won't describe. I think some of it may be illegal. I don't think it was intentional as many things are mislabled on that network. I have not used Kazaa Lite for ages and forgot it was even on that computer. My question is, how can I completely removed Kazaa Lite and especially those files so they are completely unretreivable? I know Spybot has the "shredder" that claims to do this. Does it really work though? Are there any other things I should remove so there is no trace what so ever of anything that could possibly be illegal? I don't want to go through the hassle of reformatting and reinstalling Windows.
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04-01-2004, 04:26 PM
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Mondsreitersmann
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What is this shredder option in Spybot?
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04-01-2004, 05:05 PM
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When you click on tools it opens up the "secure shredder".
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04-01-2004, 05:10 PM
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Yes, I think it enough, uninstall Kazaa Lite, and shred the files.
SpyBot's shredder writes random data over the files several times, making it impossible to recover them later. |
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04-01-2004, 06:29 PM
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Lest we forget
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just set it to rewrite over it like 30 times, it wont ever bother you again.
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04-01-2004, 06:32 PM
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IIRC, 7 times are enough to make it impossible to recover the file.
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04-01-2004, 07:12 PM
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Lest we forget
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I know but it cant hurt.
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