| Hide Your Cyber Footprints |
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Internet activities can be discovered. Your abuser could discover what sites you visited. If this could put you in danger, here are some things that you can do to hide your Internet tracks. Consider accessing information from another computer – a friend’s house, work, the library, Internet café. To hide your Internet activities you need to clear the computer’s memory of the most recent pages accessed. The memory is in the browser’s cache. By emptying your computer’s cache, your recently visited sites will be deleted. It’s a good idea to access sites on other subjects after you have cleared your cache so that it will have some items listed. For example, check out sites on entertainment or news. Here’s how to do it: If you use Internet Explorer: Pull down the tools menu, select Internet Options. Choose the General tab under Temporary Internet Files, click on Delete Files. Under History click on Clear History, then click OK. If you use Netscape: Pull down the Edit menu, select Preferences. Under Navigator, click on the Clear History button. Then double click on Advanced, select Cache. Click on Clear Disk Cache. If you use AOL: Pull down My AOL, select Preferences. Click on the WWW icon under Temporary Internet Files, click on Delete Files. Under History, click on Clear History. If you don’t know what browser you’re using, pull down the Help menu, and click on About. |