Thursday, 8 December 2011

How to Effectively Delete Your Internet Search History?

This is a very simple and handy tutorial for web users and perhaps my third time mentioning of CCleaner for use of clearing unwanted data from your PC.

I mention CCleaner because this is perhaps one of the first free tools to clear history and searches that I have come across in a long time and that looks quite impressive and equivalent to commercial grade software.

Anyway, let us come down straight to the tutorial regarding how to delete your internet search history using the ccleaner tool.

After you successfully install the software onto your system, follow the following steps:

1- Fire up the software.

CCleaner Software Screen














2- Press Analyze Button to allow the software to automatically check for your internet history, cookies and recently used temporary files.

Analyze and Delete Search History













Once you press "Run Cleaner" button, you will be able to get rid of all the unwanted cookies and search history as quickly as you can imagine.

In order to delete your search history on firefox and internet explorer both, make sure you close your browsers before running that handy tool.

Sunday, 4 December 2011

5 Tips on How to Keep Your Privacy Safe from Unwanted Audience

There is an old concept about trust and mistrust in general. We always discuss with each other about being vigilant and cautious about people around us. We always tell our children to not to hang out with strangers. Not to exchange gifts. Not to even go close to them. And up to some extent, we also apply the same rules to ourselves.

But what about people we know and show our trust in? It is a fact that people we know and stay with all the time can hurt our privacy to a lot more extent than people who don't know us but who keep on trying to get some hands on our private information.

And while browsing internet, it even gets more critical. While we share our sensitive information like photos, SSNs, Credit Card Nos. Driving License Nos. Bank Accounts, etc. with third parties and with people whom we like to do so online, we sometimes forget the fact that our own machine can even be compromised and cause our privacy to be leaked effectively into unwanted hands.

Therefore, I am very much confident about the fact that our privacy lies in our own hands. So, in general we can stay safe through:

  1. Never ever sending sensitive information on public computers
  2. Making sure that website we are interacting with uses https (secure) protocol to communicate
  3. Keeping machine's antivirus updated.
  4. Deleting browsing history on computers
  5. Checking for malwares and keyloggers on computers to use
So stay safe during your online sessions.