Keeping info private by cleaning up IE's mess

[Hadoob024]

I've been trying to figure out what all I need to delete on my machine in order to keep my information private. This mostly regards IE.

For instance, after browsing the web, what all directories/files should I delete in order to keep my info private. As of now, I go and delete my hotmail and yahoo cookies from the Windows\Cookies directory. Is there anything else that I should be deleting?

I was thinking maybe the Windows\Temporary Internet Files directory. What about the Content.IE5 sub-directory in this directory?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Chuck56]

I would go into Tools and delete cookies, files, and history. I'd also download something like Proxomitron or something similar

http://www.proxomitron.org

It will keep referrers off your machine and manage cookies, rid you of pop up ads and a whole lot more. Still, I'd dump everything at the end of each session online. Only takes a few seconds.

[lench]

theres another good program called cache decimator whic pretty much gets rid of all the cached files on your system

[Conf1rm3d_K1ll]

Boot into DOS and delete the following files-

C:\WINDOWS\SMARTDRV (Loads smartdrive to speed things up.)
CD\
DELTREE/Y TEMP (This line removes temporary files.)
CD WINDOWS
DELTREE/Y COOKIES (This line removes cookies.)
DELTREE/Y TEMP (This removes temporary files.)
DELTREE/Y HISTORY (This line removes your browsing history.)
DELTREE/Y TEMPOR~1 (This line removes your internet cache.)


You can find this info all over the 'net.

[Hadoob024]

Thanks everyone. Yeah, I did find some info on this on the net, but I still wanted to get an AO point of view on it. I tried searchin on AO, but the Search just kept hanging up.

[aj67my]

You might like to try xen

http://www.x9000.net/

it is freeware, and is composed of batch utilities and registry files (*.reg)