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Delete Cookies
Thursday, November 20, 2008
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Did you know that any time you visit a website your computer is silently recording your every move? And that it stores this information in several locations on your PC?
What is a cookie?
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.
Here's an example of what cookies look like:
I think you can start to see why cookies can also be a problem; anyone who looks at this folder can see exactly where you’ve been!
From this example, it’s clear that someone went to these websites:
- www.cnn.com
- www.dell.com
- www.weather.com
- www.yahoo.com
Are there some sites you visit that you'd like to keep private?
How can you get the privacy you deserve?
One way to maintain your privacy is to delete cookies. You could go through your hard drive and Options menus and delete cookies 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.
Consistency is the Key
Knowing how to delete cookies is just one piece of the puzzle. To maintain a clean slate, you must consistently delete cookies and other telling web tracks every time you exit the Internet. Otherwise, anyone could sit down at your PC and see a complete list of cookies from your last Internet session. Just think of how many times you have to quickly close what you were doing and exit the Internet? Oftentimes, there just isn’t time to manually delete cookies tracks. To manage your privacy right, you need an expert.
How to delete cookies
Private IE is a powerful program that was designed to manage and delete cookies and other telling web tracks. Private IE will delete cookies, clear search history, delete Internet history, 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 cookies and all your private information every time you exit the Internet. 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. As we saw above, cookies leave visible roadmap of your online travels. With Private IE, your roadmap is erased and your privacy is secure.
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