Cleaning up XP Home

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Mark

I caught my neighbors kid surfing Porn on my PC, I deleted
the temp files,history files, permanent/temp cookies. Is
there any thing else I missed ? My wife would not be
please if she stumbled across this. Thanks For any Help
you can provide !
 
There is a little utility called WipeOut that is extremely good at clearing
your hard drive of stuff you don't want other people to see. The last time i
saw it, it was on www.majorgeeks.com You'll find it under the Disk Cleaner
section of the files menu. Just click Disk Cleaner on the menu on the left
of the screen and then look for it there.
Use the advanced settings, but disable the option to wipe the free space on
your drive. The reason i say disable it is because it takes a long time to
do it. Many hours in some cases. It is freeware so it won't cost you
anything.
An alternative is Evidence Eliminator. Unfortunately you do have to buy this
one. So best bet is to use WipeOut.
 
Mark you might also like to download spybot - search and destroy from
www.safrer-networking.org Again this is a freeware application. Run it
regularly and it will keep your machine free of spyware, porn dialer etc. It
is a must have application.
 
Mark i use both ad-aware and spybot. What the one doesn't catch, the other
one will. So use them both.
 
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