Privacy Threats for Every Computer User
Do you know your computer records all your computing activities Online and Offline?
No matter whether you are using Windows 98, Windows ME or XP. No matter what your browser is - Internet Explorer, Netscape or Opera. All your sensitive information are recorded and stored in your computer. Anyone who has a little computer knowledge (which is common nowaday) can tell what you did for the last few months to the last several years depending on your computer settings. Many users are still unaware of the risks they expose to world. Just like telephone world, the authority (say FBI) might tapped your phone line and spying on your conservation with others. Same as in the internet, to a certain extend, it is easier to collect all your online and offline activities by retreating your information stored in your hard disk or ask your ISP to listen to your "conversations". Do not try to delete it by putting them into the recycle bin. It is not working and could be discovered simply by special software tools. Here below we've studied some software handling this sensitive but cumbersome tasks for you.
Clean Space is a comprehensive suite to handling all the dirty works for you. It could eliminate all your "evidence" stored by the OS (windows), browser and applications running on your computer. This includes but not limited to index.dat file, temporary files when you browse the net, websites you visited, document you opened and edited and password & account name you typed for some online and offline services. It also supports plug-in for varies popular applications available. There is an user interface for experience users to delete records for any applications not currently supported by Clean Space. In addition, it comes with many utilities such as password protection for sensitive files, clean up used files in your hard disk, running the application in stealth mode, wipe your deleted files that cannot be recovered by most sophisticated tools and basic anti-spyware detection and removal.
You might also like to look into Spyware/Adware issues.