Dave:
A "Government Wipe" as I, the original poster, understand it, is where
Norton writes 9's to every part of your hard drive that has free space. In
other words, when you delete a file, you just change the pointer to it, the
data remains on your hard drive until it is written over by some other data.
Thus, if the government came in, and took your hard drive, they could
re-create what was on it. the government wipe feature is supposed to make
this impossible, but, as I stated, I deleted my programs, thereby creating
orphaned data files, then did the Govt wipe, and then re-installed the
program, and found that all of my data was still there (this was Quicken).
One of the respondents wrote that Uninstalling the PROGRAM, did NOT
uninstall the data, nor did it delete it, so that when I did a Govt Wipe,
the data file was not free space, so it was not overwritten. I will have to
try again, after deleting the data file also!
Jeff
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Dave Schroeder
Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2002 2:21 PM
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Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] Government Wipe
What do they mean by "government wipe" in this thread?
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Glazier" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 10:15 AM
Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] Government Wipe
> More:
> http://www.intuit.com/support/quicken/2003/win/1916.html
> >Quicken has a built-in uninstall feature. When this feature is used,
> >the Quicken program is deleted from the computer; however, the
> >data files and all automatic backup copies remain on the computer.
> >No harm is done to Quicken data when uninstalling the Quicken program.
>
> Rick Glazier
>
> From: "Rick Glazier" <[log in to unmask]>
> > If the above is correct, when you Wiped the free space, that
> > did not include the space occupied by the data file...
>
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