cc cleaner

hi can anyone tell me the difference between wiping freespace and deleting on cc cleaner

 

Greetings, harrygodfrety.

Normally, the CCleaner method is similar to every other 'files cleaner':

Deleting: marks the drive space containing the files as off limits - the data is still present, but the files and space are not accessible by a GUI. The data can still be accessed by low-level block reading forensics software.

Wiping: actually overwrites the space containing the data with whatever algorithm that is employed by the specific cleaner. The data is now, for all intents and purposes, pretty much gone forever.

 

thanks you

 

No problem.