Lefty asked:


recently my computer started telling me my privacy is lost and that spyware is affecting my system. There is a large red warning sign that has come up as my background. Many popups claiming my system in infected come up. Also a popup at the bottom of the screen says the system has viruses. I go to my startup and there are no options for my computer. Im thinking forsure this is a virus but wanted to know if I can recover some photos and files on my c drive before I reinstall windows to clear the virus. Is there a way to do this or should I just reinstall windows xp and hope it works???

Mahala

Jeffrey asked:


What is the best way for password recovery in windows 7? I lost my windows 7 password and need to recover it.

Sheilakathryn

xXManss2001Xx asked:


My brother keeps deleting my Windows 7 password and he keeps screwing up my stuff, is there any way to prevent the option to reset/delete your password?
In my opinion this is a very serious security problem no computer should have…

Zola

Sam asked:

I recently sold my computer through an auction site. Before it was sold I formatted the drives, then ran clean disk security (a hard drive deleter) many times (over 35 passes I believe). I then tested it to see if I could recover any files with programs I got over download.com and retrieved nothing. Tested it by deleting a file, then ran the recovery programs, and that file showed up; ran clean disk security and i could no longer recover it.

Would you say that my personal information is safe from the person I sold it to? Would there be any way for them to realistically retrieve my old files? Such as taking it to a data recovery center or tech support guys. Or do these cleaners really knock everything out?

Note: I remember finding something on the drive though – it was a folder of zeros that werent very big in file size.
Robert – yes, it’s already gone.

Adnan – so data recovery centers should be able to retrieve the files even though the drives free space was over written after formatting? I know it’s probably unlikely that the buyer would get data recovered for that price, but still knowing that all of my conversations with loved ones, credit card information and account passwords are there it makes me uneasy. My life was on that computer.
RC – how sure are you of that?

asked:


I am donating my old computers, and I want to erase EVERY TRACE of personal information, and all data, from my computers, with no possibility of recovery by those data recovery programs. I have been trying to find a good program to do this, but it seems like they all cost lots of money or aren’t good enough.

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