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I bought a used computer, so I don't know all the stuff he may have been into, and I don't want to, nor do I have the time to do a complete format of the hard drive.
My question is, is there a FREE program to detect any, and all p0rn that may be on the computer, and even any p0rn residue left over after he may have delete it?

Thank you.

I bought a used computer, so I don't know all the stuff he may have been into, and I don't want to, nor do I have the time to do a complete format of the hard drive.
My question is, is there a FREE program to detect any, and all p0rn that may be on the computer, and even any p0rn residue left over after he may have delete it?

Thank you.

It would be faster to reformat and reinstall.

"Porn residue" could include viruses.

It would be faster to reformat and reinstall.

"Porn residue" could include viruses.

Yes I know that, but time I'm not so sure about, it takes hrs to format HD, but days, or even weeks to re-install everything. I was hoping for a program to run in the back ground and find stuff, then when it is done, I can remove what I want.

Quote from: Texas Conservative on Thu Jun 15, 2017 - 14:02:26

It would be faster to reformat and reinstall.

"Porn residue" could include viruses.

Yes I know that, but time I'm not so sure about, it takes hrs to format HD, but days, or even weeks to re-install everything. I was hoping for a program to run in the back ground and find stuff, then when it is done, I can remove what I want.

Takes 1/2 hour with a USB drive   

There is no such software that I'm aware of that will sniff out porn specifically, even if there was it wouldn't be able to do much more than you can by manually deleting files. If you're worried about remnants of the files still being on your HDD, they will eventually disappear by the continual writing over of data as a normal function of using your computer. If you're worried about someone seeing them, relax, unless a person was to use low level data recovery software on your isolated disk, it will never be seen again after it is "two step" deleted from Windows.

Hope that helps.

Or use Revo Uninstaller instead of Windows Explorer to get rid of left over files and folders in Program data, App data, and registry items.


https://www.revouninstaller.com/revo_uninstaller_free_download.html

Quote from: Faithbuilders on Fri Jun 16, 2017 - 14:48:48

Quote from: Texas Conservative on Thu Jun 15, 2017 - 14:02:26

It would be faster to reformat and reinstall.

"Porn residue" could include viruses.

Yes I know that, but time I'm not so sure about, it takes hrs to format HD, but days, or even weeks to re-install everything. I was hoping for a program to run in the back ground and find stuff, then when it is done, I can remove what I want.

I would never ever put in use a used computer without doing a complete factory reset.
You have no knowledge what kind of malware, spyware or other software is installed that may leak your personal information.

Of course you know that it isn't quite that simple, there isn't a magic "reset button" as with cell phones.


If the previous owner took the time to perform a backup, who knows what was already on the system prior to running the backup.


OEM PCs do not ship with disks or partitions installed anymore, but it may be possible to go to the manufacturers site and download a copy of the OEM OS install disk.


System restore works for OS issues, but it doesn't delete files.


I don't really see a big issue with using an "in service" OS on a used PC, for the novice it's much easier to clean out the unwanted files, folders, and apps than to format C:\