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Just How Secure Are the 'Reset Safari' & 'Erase Free Space' Facility?
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<blockquote data-quote="scoot" data-source="post: 404361" data-attributes="member: 31948"><p>Evening all,</p><p></p><p>Brand spanking new on here, so please go easy (and please talk in a language I can understand... I'm pretty much IT illiterate!).</p><p></p><p>I like to think of myself as a fairly 'security concious' person as I'm not the sole user of this Mac, so would appreciate your views on the following.</p><p></p><p>After every period on the net, I always 'Reset Safari'', and once a week I do a 7-Pass 'Erase Free Space'.</p><p></p><p>Are these precautions truly effective at destroying deleted files?</p><p></p><p>Also, I notice when I wake in the morning after starting the 'Erase Free Space' facility that there is a message present warning me that my 'Start-Up Disc is Almost Full'. I normally just acknowledge this - is this the right thing to do? Has the 'Erase' actually completed?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="scoot, post: 404361, member: 31948"] Evening all, Brand spanking new on here, so please go easy (and please talk in a language I can understand... I'm pretty much IT illiterate!). I like to think of myself as a fairly 'security concious' person as I'm not the sole user of this Mac, so would appreciate your views on the following. After every period on the net, I always 'Reset Safari'', and once a week I do a 7-Pass 'Erase Free Space'. Are these precautions truly effective at destroying deleted files? Also, I notice when I wake in the morning after starting the 'Erase Free Space' facility that there is a message present warning me that my 'Start-Up Disc is Almost Full'. I normally just acknowledge this - is this the right thing to do? Has the 'Erase' actually completed? [/QUOTE]
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