What is Internet History?

Internet History is a list containing detailed information about every web site you visited. This list covers not only web site addresses but also every web page address you viewed as well as the date and time of attendance. Another information inscribed in the list is information about each file you downloaded from the Internet.

What are Internet History functions?

Your Internet browser has two reasons to record Internet History:
1. It is necessary for autocompleting function in the address bar. You've certainly noticed that browser tries to guess and substitute a web address automatically as soon as you begin to type in words in browser address bar.
2. But the basic Internet History task is to function as a register of your Internet activity. With the help of Internet History you can easily find a site you are interested in if you do not remember its address or have not added it into your preference list.

Beware! Internet History jeopardizes your privacy!

1.Autocompleting function is very convenient; but imagine that your friend, colleague or a family member wants to enter search.com and your browser substitutes, for instance, ***.com! This is a gentle example of what can automatically appear before the eyes of people who have access to your computer. We think it is needless to use rougher names of sites.
2. Your Internet History is easily available to any person who has an access to your computer. Just a single press! On purpose or out of curiosity your family members, friends or colleagues can learn about your secrets looking through your favorite sites.
3. Internet History is also a top-priority aim of some types of spyware. Looking through the Internet History spies can investigate your interests to the smallest detail and then deliver the information to spammers and advertising agencies. Read here for more details.

How to clean Internet History.

It can be cleaned using two fundamentally different ways. You have to choose which suits you better and we'll try to enumerate pros and cons of each method.

Choice 1
Using standard function of Internet History clearance; every Internet browser has it. The principal minus of this technique is that in future Internet History can be easily restored by means of simple tools. Some spyware programs also can restore it. The chief advantage of the method it that it is available free of charge.
Choice 2
Using specialized Clean Space software. It has a lot of advantages, since Clean Space is a software specially created for your online privacy protection. Clean Space can clean not only your Internet History but also Temporary Internet Files, Cookies, Index.dat files and many others. By single press Clean Space cleans hundreds of rooms that can jeopardize your privacy. Furthermore, no one could ever reconstruct the data of your Internet activity in future.

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