Do hardrive washers really work when you are trying to erase your online/email trail?

Can a P I with hard drive recovery skills still recover your emails and surfing habits even after you washed them with one of those hard drive scrubbers on the market?





Thanks!Do hardrive washers really work when you are trying to erase your online/email trail?
This one works, plus it's free and open source.





';Darik's Boot and Nuke (';DBAN';) is a self-contained boot disk that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers. DBAN will automatically and completely delete the contents of any hard disk that it can detect, which makes it an appropriate utility for bulk or emergency data destruction.';





';DBAN is a means of ensuring due diligence in computer recycling, a way of preventing identity theft if you want to sell a computer, and a good way to totally clean a Microsoft Windows installation of viruses and spyware. DBAN prevents or thoroughly hinders all known techniques of hard disk forensic analysis.';





Just remember, this will totally erase your operating system, too.





Free at:


http://dban.sourceforge.net/