Program for erasing Internet tracking??

[TC]

Is there a consensuses on what is the best (or at least a good) "free"
program for erasing Internet tracking--cookies, history, Index.dat, etc.,
for Windows XP Home edition? I am familiar with Internet Explorer's built
in Tools/Internet Options feature--I am looking for something a bit more
effective.

 

[badgolferman]

Is there a consensuses on what is the best (or at least a good)
"free" program for erasing Internet tracking--cookies, history,
Index.dat, etc., for Windows XP Home edition? I am familiar with
Internet Explorer's built in Tools/Internet Options feature--I am
looking for something a bit more effective.

Crap Cleaner works pretty good.

 

[Aaron]

Crap Cleaner works pretty good.

http://www.ccleaner.com/

Well it's good, but it doesn't do secure deletion, so it's fairly easy for
someone to recover it, using a undelete program.

Using something like cleancache, or cleanup or even better Eraser
commandline via a batch file might be an alternative if you want to make
things a bit harder.

Just in case if you care.

 

[coal_brona]

Hi,

You can use most powerful data recovery tools such as Active@ undelete
or Uneraser (DOS) to verify, if your info deleted can be restored.

http://www.active-undelete.com/

http://www.uneraser.com/

 

[carver33]

Is there a consensuses on what is the best (or at least a good) "free"
program for erasing Internet tracking--cookies, history, Index.dat, etc.,
for Windows XP Home edition? I am familiar with Internet Explorer's built
in Tools/Internet Options feature--I am looking for something a bit more
effective.

I like System Security Suite at:

http://www.igorshpak.net/

It also allows you to delete the index.dat files on reboot.

HTH
Bill

 

[TC]

Thanks to all that responded, I appreciate the info!

 

[Bob Adkins]

Is there a consensuses on what is the best (or at least a good) "free"
program for erasing Internet tracking--cookies, history, Index.dat, etc.,
for Windows XP Home edition? I am familiar with Internet Explorer's built
in Tools/Internet Options feature--I am looking for something a bit more
effective.

I think most browser add-ons have a tracks erasing feature. I know Maxthon
does. It allows cleaning the address bar, search, history, cache, cookies,
and even form data. It has a "clean all" button to clean everything in one
fell swoop. De-fragging does a pretty good job of overwriting old files so
they can't be un-erased by normal means. I bet Slim and Avant browser also
have a cleanup feature.