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To: afz400
They also keep interesting web info in the index.dat file in the cookies directory that can only be deleted by exiting to DOS.

"Spider" is a free program that will easily kill web traces. you can find it with a web search

22 posted on 10/14/2002 9:01:09 PM PDT by KneelBeforeZod
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To: KneelBeforeZod; afz400
The URL for Spider is:
http://www.fsm.nl/ward/

I highly recommend in addition to this using a third party browser like mozilla ( http://www.mozilla.org ) or netscape as they can be configured quite easily to block out most irritating ads and don't store 95% of invasive cookies and spyware by default (the other 5% can be removed with regular use of AdAware (http://www.lavasoftusa.com/ )). Mozilla also does not store URL's in a secret file like explorer does.

I only use internet explorer to download microsoft updates, and that's only because microsoft makes its website on purpose display poorly on other browsers.

Oh, and I switched from mac to windows because I wanted to build my own and I like computer games (so sue me). But when I am out of school I am absolutely going to get one of those spiffy Titanium laptops for anything that is important or business related...my mother just got one and it is incredible.
44 posted on 10/15/2002 4:18:25 AM PDT by Lizard_King
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