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Need a suggestions of a good tool to delete cookies and internet history
03-02-2007, 02:41 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 1  | Need a suggestions of a good tool to delete cookies and internet history Hello, I need to take my computer to a computer repair shop for an upgrade, and I want to erase all sensitive information on it, such as cookies, internet history, some office documents, and other things. I created a few CDs with the documents that I need ( inluding my personal photos and emails ) and now I want to erase the other files without formating the drive.   | ||||
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03-02-2007, 02:42 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 1,322 Location: Delaware   Recent Blog: Memba Them? TMZ Gallery  | windows washer does a pretty good job, or ccleaner i think its called | ||||
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03-02-2007, 04:39 PM
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Title: www.Centicero.com
Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 1,017 Location: Devon, United Kingdom   
| Don't take it to a repair shop - simply upgrade it yourself and save some money. And deleting cookies, etc. won't help - they can get your data back even if you wipe the entire drive, if they are looking for something. You'd be better off running a data destruction live CD on the drive. Anyway, what exactly are you trying to hide? | ||||
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03-02-2007, 07:34 PM
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Title: Just keeping it real
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03-03-2007, 07:36 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 1 | Thank you all for your suggestions. I also found Privacy Guard http://www.amicutilities.com/privacy-guard which does the job right and fast. I will try them out more and then buy one!  | ||||
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03-03-2007, 08:11 PM
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| windows washer is decent. what are you upgrading too ? xp, vista, mac ?
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03-03-2007, 11:54 PM
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Title: www.Centicero.com
Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 1,017 Location: Devon, United Kingdom
| Well... as I said a privacy program won't help you much - it's just giving you a false sense of security. If the computer repair shop wants to snoop on your hard drive [which they shouldn't - but then again they do catch a lot of people with kiddy porn on their hard drives], then they would very easily be able to recover the data removed by a "privacy guard". | ||||
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