Are you willing to share the names of those programs ?
Kind regards

Kasper
L wrote:

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> Just FYI about security of deleted data..

>

> I purchase used computers for parts every so often. Many of them have

> working hard drives in them.

>

> For fun, I analyze the hard drive out and see what I can find.. just

> as a little game of mine.

>

> When I run my undelete/recovery tools on them I can see basically

> everything the previous owner had on the drive.. including passwords.

> Some of the stuff may be overwritten.. but not much. I don't look at

> the stuff for malicious use, I just do it out of curiosity to study

> whether or not formatted drives really are secure. And I can say for

> sure they are not secure. I don't go in looking at each password I

> recovered or anything either.. i basically just confirm for fun that I

> can recover the disk.. it's a cheap thrill and only someone with no

> life would do such a thing. me. Actually there was a goal in all

> this.. it was to find the best undelete tool that worked generically

> in the most situations. And yes I found a few for MS Winblows that

> worked very well, since most computers I buy had ms windows on them.

>

> One thing I found was that some undelete tools are not nearly as good

> as others.  I thought many of them used similar algorithms.. but some

> of them really worked much better and completely differently

>

> L505