{"id":4301,"date":"2008-02-03T11:18:56","date_gmt":"2008-02-03T10:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/file-shredders-for-maximum-security\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:35:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:35:16","slug":"file-shredders-for-maximum-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/file-shredders-for-maximum-security\/","title":{"rendered":"File shredders for maximum security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" alt=\"File Shredder\" id=\"image4302\" title=\"File Shredder\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/02\/file-shredder.png\" \/>Shredding documents is not just something you can do physically to protect your privacy &#8211; it&#8217;s also not a bad idea to do it to documents and files on your PC because it&#8217;s relatively easy to recover sensitive information that&#8217;s only been deleted.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve never used one, then most file shredders are very simple although they sometimes differ in how secure they are and what they can handle. A good start is <a href=\"http:\/\/simple-file-shredder.en.softonic.com\">Simple File Shredder<\/a> which overwrites your files with random bytes before it&#8217;s deleted. Recovery is almost impossible after this has been done. If on the other hand you&#8217;ve deleted a file but still can&#8217;t remove certain traces of it from your PC, then <a href=\"http:\/\/tz-shredder.en.softonic.com\">TZ Shredder<\/a> is a tough nut. This program searches for fragments relating to your target file that may have been hidden in clusters on your hard drive.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re worried that your shredder may eventually be cracked by an employee or hacker, then <a href=\"http:\/\/file-shredder.en.softonic.com\">File Shredder<\/a> gives you the option of using 5 different algorithms so that no one shredding action is ever the same. If that&#8217;s not enough, then <a href=\"http:\/\/master-shredder.en.softonic.com\">Master Shredder<\/a> features a mind boggling 18 different algorithms to choose from. This is a high-end solution that should be used if what you&#8217;re deleting is particularly sensitive or confidential. Finally, i you&#8217;re looking for a shredder that&#8217;s integrated into a cleaning suite as whole, then <a href=\"http:\/\/steganos-safe.en.softonic.com\">Steganos Safe<\/a> is, excuse the pun, a very safe bet featuring a very powerful shredder alongside other hard drive cleaning tools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shredding documents is not just something you can do physically to protect your privacy &#8211; it&#8217;s also not a bad idea to do it to documents and files on your PC because it&#8217;s relatively easy to recover sensitive information that&#8217;s only been deleted. If you&#8217;ve never used one, then most file shredders are very simple &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/file-shredders-for-maximum-security\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;File shredders for maximum security&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2009,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-4301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336418,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4301\/revisions\/336418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4301"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=4301"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=4301"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=4301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}