In working with computers and the surfing of the internet numerous digital traces emerge on the hard disk, and the normal operating systems don’t delete these traces completely. Special programs could reproduce this data, and deleted documents could still be read after weeks of being deleted, or your surfing history reconstructed.

The deletion of files in the MS File Explorer remove only the reference and not the complete data. With specific programs these data can be restored so that under circumstances also after weeks it can be retrace exactly which files were on your computer. In order to prevent this, the abylon SHREDDER overwrites according to the wipe-level the files, freespace or internet traces up to 35 times (Peter Gutman method).