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As scary as it might sound, your computer silently records everything you do on it. This means every keystroke you type is recorded. Every website you visit is saved. Every photo you view is notated. Every email you write or read is recorded. Every document you open is saved.

Even if you delete these files, clear your recycle bin and clear your web browser cookies, these files and data are still on your computer and can be retrieved in just a few seconds. This information can quickly be recovered or accidentally read by your employer, your children, your spouse or anyone else if you do not take extra steps to ensure it is gone forever.

What are these extra steps you can take to cover your tracks and make sure personal or sensitive data is not seen by someone else accessing your computer? They are simple really. You just need to make sure whatever files you delete, you also rewrite over that space on your hard drive.

Most people do not realize it, but when you delete an item it is not actually erased from your system. It just sits there, unseen until it is overwritten by new data on your computer. There are literally hundreds of data recovery software programs on the market today that can recover this data – everything from emails to photos to documents and web history – in a couple of minutes.

To prevent this type of software from working you just need to make sure there is nothing left on your computer to retrieve. This means you just need to save new data over the area on your hard drive where the deleted data was located.

This may sound difficult, and it can be if you try to do it on your own. The good news is there are a number of high quality software applications on the market today that will do it for you. These programs will:

  • Permanently delete and overwrite data from web browsers like Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera and others. The data that is removed includes the history of websites visited, the website cache, cookies (including website login ID’s and passwords) and temporary documents associated with email downloads.
  • Remove all traces of applications from popular peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing.
  • Permanently erase and write over data in your recycle bin. This may include documents, photos and other files you do not want seen by others.
  • Erase and wipe your hard drive of traces from instant messaging software and voice-over-internet-protocol (VOIP) utilities.
  • Get rid of email files that you no longer want from popular email clients like Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora and others.

Before buying a program, you will want to make sure that it uses the latest government and military deletion protocols, that it provides 24-7 customer support, that it has a money-back guarantee and that it has good reviews on popular software review sites like CNET or Tucows.

In closing, if you are worried that someone may stumble upon your private data or see something you wish he or she would not see, you may need to use Internet history eraser software. It really can provide peace-of-mind of knowing that your Internet searching behaviors are private to you…and no one else!

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