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11. Privacy Protection
11.1. Hide Your Computer Activities
When you surf the Internet, open documents or run various programs, your activity is
recorded in “cookie” files, temporary Internet files and the registry. This means that
people who have access to your computer can easily see which web sites you have
visited or which documents, images and applications you've recently opened. Track
Eraser will protect your privacy by removing this confidential information from your
computer.
To launch the Track Eraser tool, click on the Erase history link of the Privacy
section. In the list on the right hand side of the window select the history tracks you
want the program to look for click on the Scan Now button. After the scan is finished,
select the history tracks and files you want to remove and click on the Erase button
to remove them.
11.2. Delete Files beyond Restoration
Did you know that by simply deleting files or folders in Windows you just remove
references to them but not the actual data? Files you think were deleted in fact
remain intact on the disk for some time and can be easily restored with data recovery
software. File Shredder was designed to permanently delete files, folders and the
Recycle Bin contents, so your sensitive data cannot be restored. It provides four
different shredding algorithms: from fast to military-grade privacy level.