Acronis privacy expert suite 8.0 User Manual

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Internet Clean-up 
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Chapter 4.  Internet Clean-up  
4.1 General 
information 
The greatest threat to the privacy of your work has the Web as its source. You 
have read about it in the Introduction, which also describes system sections 
where traces of user actions are stored. The cache, cookies, visited pages and 
history form autocomplete lists and passwords are stored in different places on 
your system, depending on your browser. You can clean up all of them with 
Acronis Privacy Expert Suite  
 Internet Clean-up
The Internet Clean-up category enables you to: 
ƒ  Completely remove all traces of your Web and e-mail actions using the 
Internet Clean-up Wizard 
ƒ  Clean up separate system components related to Web actions, i.e. clean 
up visited pages list, empty cache, etc 
ƒ  Fine-tune the Internet Clean-up Wizard to suit your needs 
4.2 
Using the Internet Clean-up Wizard 
The Internet Clean-up Wizard enables you to completely remove all traces of 
your Web and e-mail actions. 
It enables you to: 
ƒ  Clean up Temporary Internet files  that are stored on your PC hard disk 
while you browse the Web to speed up loading next time you visit the same 
page 
ƒ  Remove cookies, small text files created on your PC when you visit a Web 
site. Such cookies might contain user name and other information entered 
during, say, registration at the Web site 
ƒ  Remove downloaded files (ActiveX elements) that can be installed secretly 
while you browse Web sites. ActiveX elements enable Web pages to act like 
applications and dynamically change content. At the same time, ActiveX 
elements might be used maliciously to gain access to your PC 
ƒ  Clean up visited Web sites history 
ƒ  Clean up Web site addresses typed in the address field 
ƒ  Remove form autocomplete lists stored by the browser to speed up filling 
various forms 
ƒ  Remove passwords stored by a browser to speed up authorization on Web 
sites 
ƒ  Securely remove e-mail messages (from Microsoft Outlook and Outlook 
Express)