Even though you would never know it, many things happen every time you use the Internet. As soon as you sign on, little programs within the depths of your computer come to life and quietly start collecting all kinds of information about you. A quick search of your computer would reveal the following types of information:

Privacy software should take care of all your PC privacy concerns. A good piece of privacy software will delete your cookies, erase your Internet history files, and clear out all your cache. Good privacy software goes to the deepest levels of your hard drive and deletes all these files permanently.

Files like cookies, Internet history and cache store tons of information about you. Information like: what kinds of websites you go to, what kinds of things you buy online, what kinds of images you look at, what kinds of files you download. With a little ambition and some time, a person with access to these files can put together a profile for you as a consumer, a businessperson, or a spouse.