Re: What is a good freeware Internet privacy tracks eraser for WinXP?

From: Michael Pelletier (mjpelletier_at_mjpelletier.com)
Date: 05/20/05 

Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 02:16:27 -0700

Serendipity wrote:

> bentknuckle@yahoo.com wrote:
>
>> Michael Pelletier wrote:
>>
>>>bentknuckle@yahoo.com wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>What is a good Internet freeware privacy tracks eraser for WinXP?
>>>
>>>if this is for work, many companies log your activity
>>>at the gateway as do I. A track eraser is useless. If this is for
>>
>> home
>>
>>>nevermind.
>>
>>
>> I forgot to mention this is for home use, not corporate use.
>> Most freeware can't be installed on corporate machines anyway.
>>
>> I'm looking for a known set of respected programs.
>> Sort of like for spyware, this handful is generally deemed reasonably
>> sufficient.
>> - AdAware SE Personal
>> - HiJack This
>> - Microsoft AntiSpyware Beta
>> - Spyware Blaster
>> - SpyBot Search & Destroy
>>
>> The goal of this question is to come up with the handful of freeware
>> Internet privacy washers that many people deem to be worthy.
>>
>> What privacy washer do you use?
>>
> I have Win XP on my PC. I didn't use a privacy washer although I usedd
> Windows Washer when I had Win98. For XP, I used AdAware, Spybot, a
> trojan scanner, a firewall in addition to XP firewall, and anti virus
> software. From there, I just cleaned the cache, history, and cookies
> folders. I finally got tired of having to keep all the security
> software up to date and switched over to Mac. It's so much easier :)

Here Here. The Mac OS is really slick...

Michael 

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