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

From: Little Girl (littlergirl_at_trash.gmail.com)
Date: 05/22/05 

Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 18:16:40 GMT

Hey there,

On 21 May 2005 18:27:09 -0700, it was written by
bentknuckle@yahoo.com:

>> How about EasyCleaner?
>> Homepage: http://personal.inet.fi/business/toniarts/ecleane.htm

>Nice.

I like this one, too. It's been around for years, and I trust it. :)

>EasyCleaner 2.0 deleted 235 invalid registry entries even after all the
>previous privacy programs were run (CCleaner, CleanUp, Free Internet
>Eraser, & MRU-Blaster) and even after the freeware antispyware programs
>(AdAware SE Personal, HiJack This, Microsoft AntiSpyware Beta, Spyware
>Blaster, & SpyBot Search & Destroy).

>EasyCleaner also deleted 294 unnecessary files, 12 stale shortcuts,
>Internet Explorer cookies & history & MRU lists & Temporary Files, 15
>startup items, and 498 duplicate files.

>Total savings (after the other programs ran) was still over 190 Mbytes.
>Good call!

One more I recommend, and have been using for the past year is:

System Security Suite

Homepage: http://www.igorshpak.net/
Download: http://www.igorshpak.net/software/3ssetup104.zip

<quotes from the page>
Requirements: Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP, Internet Explorer 4.0 or
higher

System Security Suite (3S) is the program to remove internet tracks
and junk files from your computer. It allows you to delete Cookies,
clear Internet Explorer Cache, delete index.dat Files, clear Typed
URLs, Windows Temp Folder and much more. You can also specify custom
folder locations with file masks, which will be cleaned in addition to
the selected items. In addition, the program allows you to view and
optionally remove programs that launch automatically at Windows
startup as well as Browser Helper Objects.
<end quotes from the page>

It hasn't been updated in quite some time, but other than that, it's
very thorough. 

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