Hiding Your Tracks Online

Please note, this information is for guidance only, and may not fully hide your tracks. To be fully confident of covering your tracks the safest way would be to use a computer at the library, a friend's house, at work etc.

Every time you visit a web site your computer keeps a history of your visit in the browsers cache (Temporary Internet folder). Below are instructions how to minimise the chances of someone finding what you have been looking at. Please note, if your partner uses sites where they have to sign in with passwords etc, these will also be removed, thus they will know that cookies have been cleared.

Clearing Tracks in the 3 main internet browsersIf you do not know which browser you have installed, click on Help on the toolbar at the top of the browser screen. A drop down menu will appear, the last entry will say About Internet Explorer, About Mozilla Firefox, or something similar.

Internet Explorer

• Go to the task bar near the top of your screen and click on Tools
• Select Internet Options
• Click on Delete Files, check the Delete all offline content box and then click on OK
• Finally, click on Clear History and then Yes

Netscape

• Go to the Edit menu and select Preferences
• Click on Navigator and choose Clear History
• Select Advanced, then Cache and click on Clear Disk Cache

Firefox

• Go to the task bar near the top of your screen and click on Tools
• Select Clear Private Data
• Click on Clear Private Data Now

For AOL USERS

• Click on the Settings tab on the AOL toolbar
• Click on the Toolbar option
• Tick the clear history trail and Auto complete after each time I sign off or switch screen names box
• Click on save
• Clear the history trail by pressing CTRL + H and clicking on Yes

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