gHacks technology news » erase personal tracks http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:22:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Erase Personal Tracks with Disk Cleaner http://www.ghacks.net/2006/07/13/erase-personal-tracks-with-disk-cleaner/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/07/13/erase-personal-tracks-with-disk-cleaner/#comments Thu, 13 Jul 2006 12:36:06 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2006/07/13/erase-personal-tracks-with-disk-cleaner/ You are leaving traces on the computer you are working with unless you are using a live cd or software that runs from an usb stick. Traces are everywhere and it´s rather hard to clean every possible trace by hand. Disk Cleaner is a nice little freeware application that helps you in this task.

Once installed it scans your computer for items in temporary folders, browser cache and recent documents for instance. Almost thirty locations, each showing the number of files and the complete size of all those files. I think it´s interesting that the program lists all three browsers that I use (opera, firefox and ie) each with separate entries for disk cache, cookies, history and more.

Cleaning is easy as well. Mark the locations that you want cleaned and select clean afterwards. If a path is cleaned it will disappear from the disk cleaner listing and reappear again if new files are discovered. Nice little tool with great impact on security.

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