How can you clean up your personal data from your Computer
These days identity theft, hacking e-mail accounts, illegal money transfers, is all over cyber news. Everyone is all about cyber safety these days. Many organizations are working towards designing prototypes, as well as implement software’s that can actually provide cyber safety to the users of the internet. With all this insecurity in the air, every internet user stops for a minute or two to think and ask themselves the question ‘is my private data safe, or should I remove it manually?’
Below listed are areas where your personal data may be potentially prone to insecurity. A regular clean up would assist in disposal of any unwanted personal data that is stored.
Internet history is the hub to it all. Below are all sub-categories of the IE history. As a user, what ever websites that you visit, are stored in a record database. This function of your Internet browser is imperative at times in your day to day tasks. Once you have used it for your operation, do not leave memory in it.
The other sub-categories include cache, cookies and other minor areas where your data can be stored and often un-used. Cache is basically a detailed record of the websites that you have visited in the past. The details on those pages like the illustrations, animations, the IP itself, is acquired and retained in your PC, as temporary internet files.
Cookies are a major hassle. They are like miniature buggers on the web, that the websites penetrate in your PC and potentially store it there. So when every time you enter the same portal site, it searches for those cookies on your hard disk.
Okay, so the first milestone of ours was to make aware the user, of the potential security threats due to un-used personal data on the computer. What we recommend after this is that you follow a one to two click procedure, so that the prospect of cleaning your personal computer may be implemented practically. The following screen shots, along with captions, will help to make the procedure effective and convenient.
Open up your IE, any version, and view the menu bar. Click on the tab that says ‘Tools’, as done by the user in the screenshot above.
In the long sub-menu that appears when you click on tools, the top most action listed says ‘Delete Browsing History’. Click on that, or if not, press Ctrl+Shift+Del, as an alternate to the same action.
If you carefully view the above screenshot, the Delete Browsing History action leads to this table bar. Please select categories, Temporary Internet Files, Cookies, History, Passwords, Form Data, InPrivate Filtering data. Click ‘Done’ after this procedure. All of your personal data stored gets wasted.
Also, as an alternate, you can:
Click on ‘Internet Options’ in the Tools bar.
A General tab opens. Tick the option in the Browsing History corner saying:’Delete Browsing History on exit.’
Keep to this view of ours, follow the mentioned steps, and you have yourself a computer free from any stored personal data.
