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ParetoLogic Privacy Controls
Completely Erase Internet History, Secure Delete sensitive data/files/images that you Don't want others to see!
 
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Your Windows History Retains more than you think...
 
Windows has an unnerving habit of storing masses of information regarding almost everything you do on your computer. It stores details of the most recent files you’ve viewed, the most recent programs you’ve viewed, and it even stores details of the information you’ve deleted. Deleting the files has little impact on erasing its traces, especially when you consider how easy it now is to recover lost or deleted files using recovery software.
 
Many of us now use a home computer to write letters and even to temporarily store bank details and other highly sensitive facts about ourselves. It is clearly not a good idea for most of this information to fall into the wrong hands. Because Windows stores so much information about the things we do while we are using our computer, and because it is so difficult to completely delete files it is necessary to take further action. Using ParetoLogic Privacy Controls is the only way you can be absolutely certain that you haven’t left any sensitive data lying around.
 
Internet Explorer History
Internet Explorer is equally guilty of collecting and hording information. Whenever you visit a site, when you store a password to save you having to keep logging onto sites, and when you let toolbars like the Google toolbar auto complete a lot of your information you are literally arming your computer. You are giving it volatile information that you shouldn’t be handing out to anyone that has or can gain access to your computer. If you wouldn’t willingly share the information vocally with someone that came to your door then you shouldn’t be willing to let your computer store it for long periods of time.
 
Internet Explorer has built in functions that enable you to clear all this information doesn’t it? Not really, no. Even when you clear your browser cache, temporary Internet files and cookies there are still traces and in many cases full files left lurking on your computer. Every site you’ve visited, every password field you’ve filled in, and every image you’ve viewed is still accessible to the right people. This is regardless of whether you think you’ve deleted the information or not.
 
Why Clear Your Tracks And Ensure Deleted Items Are Really Deleted?
Obviously, a level of privacy is your human right but the desire to clear your Windows and Internet Explorer tracks should go deeper than just that. Remember that every site you view can be seen by others, as well as every image you’ve looked at. Leaving these sites in places that can be accessed may not be the ideal solution if you view sites you don’t want your family to see. Kids, in particular, have an alarming knack of finding things they shouldn’t.
 
If you own a notebook and use it when traveling then it is especially important that you are able to completely cover your tracks. Otherwise you could be leaving your entire life open like a book. This is a surprisingly common cause of identity theft as thieves can usually gain access to your bank details, all of your personal details, and much more. With a bank account number, password, and your date of birth anyone could cause untold damage to your bank account.
 
Another, often overlooked consideration is your computer’s memory. Every piece of information that is stored by any application needs to be stored somewhere. Over time these files and records can really add up. In many cases, entire Gigabytes and certainly hundreds of megabytes can be freed up by securely and completely deleting these tracks from your computer.
 
The Traces That Manual Cleaning Leaves Behind
Because manual cleaning doesn’t enable you to get right down into the hard to reach cracks it means that you are left with blemishes all over your computer. While you may not be delete these files they are surprisingly easy to restore or re-open. Even without software, the more advanced computer technician can quickly access everything that you have or had stored on your computer. A lot of this information may only remain as file structures and references within the Windows registry but that’s more than enough.
 
Manual Internet Explorer cleaning is usually considered to be the general clicking of the “Delete Cookies”, “Delete Files”, and “Clear History” buttons but you should be aware of two things. First, Internet Explorer does not even look in all of the places where traces are left. The Windows registry is literally packed full of files that you and your browser generally ignore. The second point is that manual deletion of a file often does little to remove it from your system completely. Data recovery software is capable of completely recovering the vast majority of files from a computer.
 
Why Doesn’t Manual Cleaning Work As Effectively?
How often do you remember to clear the recently viewed files list? Or the most recently used programs list? How about the Start menu? A lot of us wouldn’t even know where to start when it comes to deleting this kind of information let alone remember to do it regularly. Of course, even if we do delete these settings on a regular basis, they can still be restored by someone with an inexpensive piece of software.
 
Manual file deletion takes time even when we don’t do a secure job. To use a secure deletion package that enables you to almost literally shred your documents one at a time would take an age. Yes, they offer security but why should you spend hours or days deleting files when you can delete them and then use ParetoLogic Privacy Controls to ensure all remnants of the files have been removed?
 
What Can You Protect Against With ParetoLogic Privacy Controls?
There are a lot of things you might want to protect against. The first thing that many people think of when they think of cleaning Internet Explorer is to remove evidence of adult sites you might have visited. While this is a perfectly viable use, it is far from being the only one.
 
What Is ParetoLogic Privacy Controls?
ParetoLogic Privacy Controls enables you to prevent authorities, family, and thieves from accessing your personal information and data. Don’t forget that there is a very real chance your computer harbors your bank details somewhere, especially if you do online banking. Someone could break into your home or they could steal your notebook computer. Spyware and viruses are also capable of finding this information on your computer and reporting it back to a third party.
 
ParetoLogic Privacy Controls is a computer history cleaning application. It can completely obliterate those awkward stains that your Internet travels or document and file management leave behind. It searches the annals of your computer and your hard drive to ensure that you don’t have temporary Internet files still lying around and ensures that your cookies are completely unrecoverable. Manual cleaning alone won’t rid your computer of this kind of information and certainly not to the depth that ParetoLogic Privacy Controls offers.
 
Because it is simple, quick, and particularly effective to use it is the perfect accompaniment for anyone to use that wishes to protect their privacy or speed their computer up by removing unused and unwanted files. Hard drives really do become clogged up with these files eventually, have a direct and negative impact on the performance of your computer. ParetoLogic Privacy Controls could protect your privacy while improving the overall performance of your computer at the same time.
 
Feature – Powerful File Deletion
Above all else the major function of ParetoLogic Privacy Controls is the incredibly powerful deletion methods that it employs. It offers a whole range of options with regards to the number of times you want a file shredded. The most basic option is random which shreds your file once. DOD performs three passes, NSA seven passes, and Gutmann performs a very impressive and incredibly secure 35 passes. With 35 passes your document will be well and truly shredded and would be impossible to reconstruct.
 
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Feature – Deletion Of File Fragments And Registry Streams
File fragments are generally secreted all over your system. These fragments can be used to reconstruct files and many data recovery applications use this data to perform their recovery. ParetoLogic Privacy Controls will perform a complete deletion (one to 35 deletions, depending on your settings) to prevent this from being possible. Registry streams are also often used when recovering data and are yet another area that ParetoLogic Privacy Controls will completely remove to ensure your privacy is kept.
 
Feature – Deletion Of All Temporary Internet Files
You’d be forgiven for thinking that temporary Internet files only lurk in the temporary Internet file folder. After all, the name should be something of a give away. However, temp files are stored literally all over your computer. As well as the easy to reach temp file ParetoLogic Privacy Controls will locate the files and shreds of files from all over your computer in order that it can securely delete them. It also ensures that all your deleted files that used to reside in the temporary Internet folder have been completely removed. Often this isn’t the case and you can be left with files in the temp file when you believe you have deleted them.

Feature – Full Support For Numerous Hard Drives And Browsers
ParetoLogic Privacy Controls supports Fat, FAT32, and NTFS disks. This means that you can check all of your drives on any computer and delete the offending files and remnants of files. By clearing drives of unnecessary clutter and files you no longer want to keep you will generally free up a lot of room. Reducing the clutter can help to improve PC performance but it will also ensure that you get as much storage room out of your hard drive as is possible.

Compatibility Level
Compatibility is a big issue. We’ve already seen that ParetoLogic Privacy Controls is able to work on FAT, FAT32 and NTFS drives. It will also work on all major Internet browsers including Internet Explorer, Firefox, AOL, MSN Explorer, Mozilla, Opera, and Netscape. If you don’t use the standard Windows Internet Explorer or if you have more than one browser installed then you can still clean your computer.

You would probably be surprised at just how many files and folders are lurking on your computer literally packed full of sensitive information or simply clogging up your hard drive. Why not see for yourself? ParetoLogic Privacy Controls offers a free scan to show you just how much room you could be saving and how many files you have stored on your computer. If this is the first time you have securely deleted your tracks and files and your computer is quite old then the ParetoLogic Privacy Controls free scan is almost certain to find a large amount of files accounting for a lot of hard drive space.

The Free Scan
All you need to do to take advantage of the free scan offer, and it really is a good idea, is to download the software and scan. This is a full scan you will be performing, identical to the type of scan that is performed should you purchase the full license. The scanning process is incredibly simple. Download the application onto your PC. Once opened a screen will be displayed that shows your total memory and disk space as well as the amount of both you still have available for use. Below this information is a button titled “Start Scan”.

Scan Categories
Click the Start Scan button and wait. The scan itself will usually take less than a minute or two and while it’s running you are able to watch its progress. Numbers will appear next to each of the four categories where files can be found. These categories are:

Windows General – This includes recently viewed websites and pages as well as recently used files, recent media and other recent documents.

Internet History – This, as you would imagine, is jam packed full of sites you have visited but also pictures, movies, and music. There will almost certainly be entries in this list even if you have recently cleared out the temporary folders yourself.

Chat History – A lot of instant messengers record details of your chat history by default. Again, deleting the history does not necessarily clear it off your computer.

Software – This is anything related to the use of the software on your computer. Generally speaking you will find lots of data relating to recent Microsoft Office documents that have been edited or viewed. Winamp files and other software files will also be included in this list.

You can view details of each of the separate lists by clicking the “View Details” link next to each one. Alternatively you can indiscriminately delete the entire lot, which ParetoLogic Privacy Controls does by default, by selecting all four of the tick boxes down the left hand column and clicking the Remove button at the bottom.

Other Actions And Options
On the main screen there is also a button labeled “Choose Items”. As well as enabling you to select as few or as many of the above four options this also offers a broader range of choices. For instance, if you don’t want to delete the “Windows Document History” then click the little plus sign next to “Windows General” and deselect the “Windows Document History” tick box. There are a mass of options in this screen enabling you to completely customize the files you scan for and subsequently the files you are able to clean. Once finished, click the “Save” button in order to progress to scanning. This will also save your settings for future use of the ParetoLogic Privacy Controls application.

Options
In the “Options” tab you have the capability to choose how many times to shred files when deleting them. One, three, seven, and 35 are your options. The more times you choose to shred a file, the longer it will take but the more secure your deletion. You can also choose to automatically run ParetoLogic Privacy Controls when you start your PC and to automatically check for plugin updates. Plugin updates are essentially just updates to the software.

Within the options there is also a “Cookie Management” button. This powerful control lets you pick and choose exactly which cookies you would like the ParetoLogic Privacy Controls scan to ignore. Cookies can provide an invaluable Internet experience so choose carefully without leaving yourself open to potential problems.

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Privacy And ParetoLogic Privacy Controls Conclusions
Online and general computer privacy has become an even more pertinent factor to the millions and millions of people that use computers on a daily basis. It is surprising to many to learn that deleting files from the temporary Internet files and even deleting files from the recycle bin does not fully dispose of them from your computer.

Whether you are attempting to protect your privacy from family, authorities, or third party access, or even free up vital hard drive space, ParetoLogic Privacy Controls protects your privacy and can even help improve the general performance of your PC.
 
The application is very simply to use but that doesn’t mean it isn’t powerful. It’s also quick, although the speed you attain will be entirely dependent on the number of times you wish to shred files that you delete.
 
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