When files are deleted off computers, the file really isn't gone, it's more like, "out of sight, out of mind." But sometimes, you or your customers need more than that; you need to wipe those files ...

Johannesburg - When you work on a computer, you leave a lot of traces. Whether you visit websites, check your e-mail, view or edit documents or photos, your computer records everything you do. How, ...

A reader asked me how he might safely donate a computer to a local refurbishing group. "Our son-in-law takes the hard drive out and destroys it with a hammer," he said. "Is that the best way?" Unless ...