Are files that have been permanently deleted from really deleted trash?

What follows is of http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/permanently-delete-files-recycle-bin#1TC=windows-7,

"To permanently remove files from your computer and retrieve any hard disk space they were using, you must delete the files from the Recycle Bin. You can delete files from the Recycle Bin or empty the trash at the same time. »

Six months ago, I deleted some files with specific names. A couple weeks later, I deleted these same files to the trash, and accordingly the information cited above, these files should now be removed permanently.

Why, if these files have been deleted definitely four or five months ago, they appear on a list of files scanned by my anti-virus software. (The anti-virus software identified their location as $Recycle.Bin.)

I would greatly appreciate it if someone could explain that to me.

Jim

Jim

There are several levels of "deleted".  First is the trash, second is when you empty the trash, but even in this case, there may be more than one basket and this is probably what you AV is to find.  You can check in instead of just looking in the Recycle Bin, you open Explorer and navigate to the $RECYCLE. BIN.  INSIDE, you can find today's trash > and there are perhaps more than in this capture.

Even when you clear all the recycling bins, the fragments are still on the hard drive, but they are not indexed by the system.  They will be replaced by more but if you really want to do something unrecoverable you emplay other methods

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