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Everything you do on the Internet is tracked and stored onto your computer's hard drive. This information is often referred to as Web tracks. Web tracks trace an individual's journey along the Internet and stores bits and pieces of it here and there. The information is clearly visible to anyone who uses the computer from several vantage points.

For instance, have you ever started to enter an address into the address bar of your Web browser, only to see several similar URLs appear as options below the one that you are typing? Similarly, have you ever clicked on the arrow to the drop down menu of the address bar and seen all of the choices that are stored in it?

Let's also consider e-mails. How many times have you begun to type in someone's e-mail address and seen choices appear below it? Let's think about search engines and the keyword searches that you implement on them. How many times do other keyword searches pop back up to tease you when you begin a new search?

Now, let's talk about the Web pages that you visit when you are surfing the Web. Did you know that information from each of these pages, including text, pictures, videos, and images, are captured and stored onto your hard drive? These stored pieces of information enable the Web pages to load more quickly, thereby cutting back on the amount of time that you need to wait.

What about the Web pages that you visit where you fill out certain pieces of information in order to continue using the Web site? What, you don't think that you have done this? Well then, I guess that you have never gotten driving directions online, shopped online, completed a survey, filed a request for a free sample, played an online game, joined a blogging site, gambled online, or signed up to join a new Web site?

Your Web tracks are known as cookies, address bar history, browser cache, browser history, and auto-complete files. This information is clearly up for grabs to anyone who circumvents the security of your computer with spyware. Moreover, it is up for grabs to anyone who borrows your computer, even if it is just to check his or her e-mail account.

Fortunately, products, or software applications, are available that will completely remove the traces of your Internet activity, including Internet cookies, visited URLs, Internet cache files, Internet history, temporary files, form records, and auto-complete password records. Additionally, computer users can manually remove their Web tracks by using one of the following sets of removal steps, depending upon their Internet browser.

To remove Web history in Firefox:
  1. Open Firefox.
  2. Go to tools at the top.
  3. Select the "privacy" tab.
  4. Click the clear button next to history.
  5. Click OK.
To remove Web tracks and history in Internet Explorer:
  1. Open Internet Explorer.
  2. Go to tools at the top.
  3. Select the general tab in the Internet Options dialog box.
  4. Select "clear history."
  5. Click OK.
To remove Web history in Mozilla
  1. Open Mozilla.
  2. Go to Edit and open menu.
  3. Select preferences.
  4. Select navigator listed under the category title.
  5. Select "clear history" in the history listing.
  6. Click OK.
To remove Web history in Netscape:
  1. Open Netscape.
  2. Go to Edit and open menu.
  3. Select preferences.
  4. Select navigator listed under the category title.
  5. Select "clear history" in the history listing.
  6. Click OK.
To remove Web history in Opera:
  1. Open Opera.
  2. Go to Edit and open menu.
  3. Select preferences.
  4. Select navigator listed under the category title.
  5. Select "clear history" in the history listing.
  6. Click OK.
There are many applications that can be used to automatically clear your browser's history. One useful application that cleans this and almost every other major application's history is Privacy Controls. It has an update feature which allows new applications that are released to be cleaned as well. 		HACKER SAFE certified sites prevent over 99.9% of hacker crime.


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