 Do you have Tell Tales in your computer? YES !!
After spending time surfing the Internet, your computer keeps a log of the sites you visited and when you visited. Many web sites send ?Cookies? to your computer.
Banner ads send cookies even if you didn?t visit the site, it may have simply popped up on the page you were viewing.
Some of this is useful and commonly used as a means of returning later (History). As for many cookies, they improve your means of login to web sites or other preferred settings etc.
But only trusted cookies are wanted.
However, Many people do not realize that Windows and other software programs store information about what they have done, what documents they have used, what web sites they have visited, and
various other activities they have performed.
Therefore, anyone else can see what you have been doing on your computer, which raises several privacy concerns.Furthermore, much of your activity information takes up valuable disk space, and recovering this space can be very beneficial. Cleaning up the history of your activities can be a tedious chore of manually removing each history file or entry, If privacy and disk space are to be maintained.
If a cookie can be sent to your computer without you visiting the site, then the evidence in your computer could suggest that you did visit that site !You should be aware that the simple deletion of files does NOT remove data from your system completely. Whist deleting them would free up disk space.
With sophisticated equipment, these ?Tell Tales? can be recovered and could be used against you !!
In addition to cookies, Windows applications maintain history files, saved to your computer hard drives. These files are in a format, not easily read. "index.dat" files do not show their contents, when opened with Notepad. When you hit the "Delete" button in Internet Explorer/tools/Internet Options to delete your temporary files, you are led to believe your history files are deleted. However I have news for you, they are not !
It is therefore preferred to clean, and NOT just delete them.
Take a look in our Web links page, Here you will find links to recommended software, which may help you.
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