Saturday, March 6, 2010

How to clear browser history

Many of us use internet on shared computers for example in cyber cafe, internet room in your office or at friends or manager's computer who has access to internet. One important thing we usually ignore is to clear the browser history after finishing the browsing. This might let another user to access your important email and internet banking information.

Why is it important?
Because even if you logout form a site it is possible that your username and email address is stored in Cookie and if the computer you used is infected by virus you will start receiving junk/bulk emails. So now you know how you get those vi@gr@ vi@gr@ emails!

How clear usernames, passwords, email addresses and any other information you typed in on Internet Explorer 8:
Step 1:
If you look at the top right corner of Internet Explorer you can see a button Safety click on it. Then from the menu click on Delete Browsing History (you can also press Ctrl+Shift+Delete while you are on Internet Explorer)






Step 2:
Check all the checkboxes as shown below and press Delete button.

These steps will help you to protect your privacy.

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Thanks for reading.

Muz

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