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Wipe the slate clean: Remove financial data from your computer _ for good.
Too often, people sell or give away their old computers without realizing that the next user may be able to access personal financial information on the hard drive.
To really get rid of something on your hard drive, you have to go well beyond pressing the delete key.
Computers delete files by marking them and removing them from view. They don't show up on searches but remain on the hard drive until being repeatedly written over by other files.
"When the hard drive is completely filled and you can't save any more files, the operating system looks for a place where it can save a new file and goes to the location of that deleted file," says Joan ...
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