Internet Privacy Protection Guide

Basics of Internet privacy protection

Do you know every time you open a browser to view a web page, order something online, or read your email in a web based viewer that information is stored on your computer for later use? I believe all PC users should be up to date with Computer privacy protection guidelines.
Computer operating systems store all this material in what are called Temporary Internet Files or cache. When you visit web sites web pages may store bits of information about who you are in files called cookies on your computer. Your web browser will store a list of web sites you've visited and places you've gone in a history file in your computer. Even if you are not online, programs will store histories of the files you've opened, played, or viewed.

So how can you delete these files for Internet privacy protection?

For Internet Explorer 5 and above, you can follow these directions to clear out temporary files and delete cookies.

Open Internet Explorer and click on Tools

Click on Internet Options

On the General Tab, in the middle of the screen, click on Delete Files

You may also want to check the box "Delete all offline content"

Click on OK and wait for the hourglass icon to stop after it deletes the temporary Internet files.

You can now click on Delete Cookies and click OK to delete cookies that websites have placed on your hard drive.

Don't worry. Deleting temporary Internet files and cookies will not delete your “favourites”

There are more to do for Internet privacy protection.

You should clear Internet History stored in your PC. Windows operating system stores a list of all web sites that you’ve visited. To clear this list

Open Internet Explorer and click on Tools

Click on Internet Options

On the General Tab, in the middle of the screen, click on Clear History

Click OK

If you don’t want to keep any of the web sites that you’ve visited then

Open Internet Explorer and click on Tools Click on Internet Options

On the General Tab, in the middle of the screen, you will see “days to keep pages in history”. The default value is 20. Make it 0.

Bad news about online privacy protection.

Do you believe that normal file deletion will remove files permanently from your PC? Its not. They are still stored in your hard drive even though not visible. They can be recovered by technical computer user using a undelete utilities. If you delete cookies or if you delete history using conventional methods there are utilities to recover them!

So how to clear them permanently from your PC?

There are good Internet privacy protection utilities are available in the market. History Eraser Pro is my favourite. Click here to read more and protect your online privacy with this software.

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