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Internet History
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Your Internet History is a list that details every website you have ever visited and it’s stored deep within the depths of your hard drive. Originally this list was created to make web surfing more convenient. You know how when you start to type in a website address (URL) and your computer finishes it for you? That’s because of your Internet History list! The problem with Internet history is that it can also be viewed as a big invasion of your privacy, since anyone who looks at it can see YOUR online past
Imagine your spouse sitting at your computer and typing in “www.a”. They would get an Internet history of all the website you had visited that started with “a”, including www.anntaylor.com - providing a direct link to her surprise birthday present!
Getting rid of your Internet history is a lot more difficult than you would think. Even when you tell Windows to erase Internet history, only the references to your Internet history are deleted. The actual files are still kept on your hard drive. Getting rid of your Internet History completely requires going into DOS and working from the command prompt.
If you aren’t a computer expert and would still like to have the peace of mind that comes from knowing that your privacy is in tact, then Private IE is the solution you’ve been waiting for. Private IE completely erases all of your Internet history. Even the hidden files deep on your hard drive. Private IE also deletes cookies and cache and other sensitive files like recent documents. With Private IE you can enjoy the peace of mind that comes with knowing that your PC privacy is secure.
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Your Computer: Behind the Scenes…
Even though you would never know it, many things happen every time you use the Internet. As soon as you sign on, little programs within the depths of your computer come to life and quietly start collecting all kinds of information about you. A quick search of your computer would reveal the following types of information:
Type #1: Internet cache (also known as Temporary Internet Files) is a file that stores information from web pages that you often visit. This means every image, animation, link and sound from all the websites you visit is stored on your PC. And anyone looking at your cache would be able to see everything that you saw the last time you were on the Internet.
Because these files are stored at different locations on your hard drive, manually finding and destroying each one is becoming increasingly difficult.
Type #2: Internet history is more than just the sidebar on the left-hand side of your monitor. Internet history is really a broad grouping of several files on your computer where the actual addresses of websites you visit are collected. These files are used in functions like the Back and Forward buttons on your browser and even the auto complete function in your URL bar. Just opening one of these Internet history files would give a person a complete picture of where you go on the Internet.
Type #3: Cookies: Have you ever bought something from a website that required a login, like Amazon.com? When you come back to that website days later, you are greeted with a phrase like “Welcome back Jane!” in the top of the web page. How did the website magically remember your name?
Simple - the website used a type of file called a Cookie. Cookies are little files that websites write and store on your computer. Every time you visit a certain website, it will look for its cookie on your hard drive. It uses the information stored within the cookie to know your name, your shopping preferences and other information about you.
These are all good things right?
It may seem that way. But think about it from a different point of view. Imagine a stranger sitting down at your computer and looking through your cache, history and cookies. Believe it or not, with relatively little effort, a person can use the information found in these files to put together a fairly comprehensive profile of you. They would have your name, address, phone number, where you like to shop, what kind of products you buy, what websites you look at and maybe even your credit card and social security numbers. Just imagine the kind of damage a criminal could do with that kind of information.
You may think that a criminal wouldn’t bother going to all that trouble to steal from “another average computer user like me”, but identity theft scams are more powerful and prevalent today then ever before. Hackers and cyber-criminals write viruses and other bugs to do their dirty work for them, and once your system is infected, it’s only a matter of time before they try to steal your identity.
So how can you keep yourself from being profiled by hackers?
You have to get rid of all the information stored in the various files on your computer that your web browser uses. You could go through your hard drive and try to clear your cache, delete your cookies, and delete your Internet history by hand, but unless you are extremely experienced in navigating the file structures of your computer, chances are you will erase something important by accident. And even if you successfully deleted these files by hand, Internet Explorer keeps another file called “index.dat” hidden on your computer in several locations. This file keeps a total record of every website you visit. And this file is locked, so you can’t delete it by hand. To manage your privacy right, you need an expert.
Private IE, your best choice for Identity Theft Prevention
Private IE is a program that was designed for the purpose of managing and deleting all the files on your computer that a hacker could potentially use to build a profile for you and steal your identity. Private IE will delete Internet history, clear search history, delete cookies, clear cache and get rid of temporary internet files. Private IE also deletes Index.dat.
And what’s more, Private IE will do all this automatically. You can set Private IE to delete all your private information every time you exit your web browser. That way, if you ever have to close out of your PC in a hurry you don’t have to worry about the sensitive information you may be leaving behind. All the files stored on your computer could result in a huge invasion of your privacy. You can’t afford to leave this sensitive information out in the open. With Private IE, your privacy is secure.
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