What's the danger?
Are you worried...
- Are you worried that your family can see the sites you visited?
- Does your computer remember your searches, account passwords or credit card numbers?
- Does your computer run slowly or freezing keeping dozens of garbage temp files?
These are tracks
They are created by programs without your permission that record your activity. There are hundreds more and they are not so visible. Deleting "Internet cache and history", will not protect you... When you are online web sites record your activity and offline your PC is storing deadly evidence.
Is someone really watching me?
The following questions answered YES:
- Do web sites capture information about me without my knowledge when I surf? YES!
- Can companies gather information about my computer when I load their software? YES!
- Are my Internet communications being captured by others? YES, if needed.
- Do law enforcers violate my privacy by capturing private information? YES!
The facts are:
- CNN: Is your PC watching you? Find out!
- New York Times: To Aim Ads, Web Is Keeping Closer Eye on You
- CNN: Close to one in four U.S. employees use workplace computers to engage in sexually explicit activity, from logging on to X-rated Web sites to swapping passionate messages in chatrooms.
- American Management Association: 77 percent of major U.S. companies record and review employee communications, including e-mail, Internet connections and computer files. ...The 77 percent figure is double what it was when the AMA did its first such survey in 1997"!
- BusinessWeek: "Workers, Surf at Your Own Risk More and more companies are monitoring their employees' abuse of the Internet"
Summary
Protecting your privacy while using your computer can be a daunting task. It seems like every day a new article is published with a long list of "musts" for protecting yourself in an increasingly computer-centric society. With so many browsers and computer applications storing information such as documents you've used, pictures you've viewed, web sites you've visited, and countless other activities you've been performing, anyone can simply turn on your system and see exactly what you have been doing on your computer. But how can you really know which files you need, and which files are keeping a record of everything you've done on your PC?
Your computer tracks your online and offline activities, putting your privacy at risk. Internet marketers can target you with spam by following your online tracks, often created by web servers leaving cookies on your computer. Others who have access to your computer can follow computer tracks to monitor your offline activities and see what you do on your computer.
Any computer has unique an IP address while connected to the Internet. Using this address a remote computer has gained an access to your computer and probably is collecting the information about the sites you've visited and the files contained in the folder Temporary Internet Files. Attention! Ask for help or install the software for deleting secret information about the sites you visited. This information can be used against you by the third party any moment! To protect from the Spy-ware and counterpart it at your computer, to prevent information transmission and delete the history of your activity use Clean Space!




