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Delete Cookies

Friday, May 11th, 2007

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:

Delete Cookies

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

PC Confidential is a powerful program that was designed to manage and delete cookies and other telling web tracks. PC Confidential not only will delete unwanted cookies, but will also allow you to save cookies from sites that you trust. With the PC Confidential Cookie Manager, saving a trusted site’s cookie is as easy as clicking a checkbox next to the name of the site. Then, you can safely delete all unwated cookies and only your saved cookies will remain.

But cookies aren’t the only place where your private data is being stored.

Every website you visit, picture you view, video you watch, online chat you have, and more is all being recorded in hidden files. With just a little effort, this information could be available to your spouse, your boss, your kids, or even a hacker trying to steal your identity!

Why jeopardize your family, reputation, job, or identity any longer? With PC Confidential, you won’t be putting your privacy at risk anymore. PC Confidential was specifically designed to protect your sensitive information and ensure that no one will be able to access what you do on your PC.

You don’t have to guess what private information is sitting on your computer anymore. You can download our Free Personal Privacy Scan and within seconds know how much of your personal information is at risk and permanently delete this data so that it can NEVER be recovered.

With PC Confidential, your privacy is secure!

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