Cleaning the History "Surf Track"

Samanthas_2

Hello what do you guys recommend for cleaning your Surfing History On PC ?

and is the good software that will write over it so it cannot Undeleted?


Samantha

DCFC79

I use ccleaner which cleans the history

[Deleted User]

CCleaner for simplicity. Being able to "undelete" is very subjective. The more money and time you throw at things the more you can recover data. I'd say the more times the disk is written to and those particular sectors rewritten too the more unlikely it is for you to be able to recover the data.

Marty_J

Both Google Chrome and Safari have a private browsing feature which stops sites being added to the history when it's enabled.

I believe this feature will be in the next version of Firefox too, though there are currently addons which do the same thing.

DatabaseError

never used it myself, but i've heard good things about sandboxie


edit...just read the requirements....no vista64 support (so that rules me out)

daveyjp

Try browzar - it deletes histories, cookies etc every time you exit.

punkstoner

hehe. What have you been looking at !!

If its anything illegal, i would not chance it. chuck the hard drive off the end of a pier and get a new one.

aliEnRIK

Deleted_User wrote: »

CCleaner for simplicity. Being able to "undelete" is very subjective. The more money and time you throw at things the more you can recover data. I'd say the more times the disk is written to and those particular sectors rewritten too the more unlikely it is for you to be able to recover the data.

As far as im aware. Once ANY information is written over data, the original data becomes near impossible to recover (like months upon months of 'trying' to restore it, and even then it wont be completely accurate). If its written over twice then its gone forever.

aliEnRIK

Cant say as ive used it myself. But ERASER looks to do the job your after
http://www.heidi.ie/node/6

For this information though, I wanna know what it is your hiding?

Marty_J

aliEnRIK wrote: »

As far as im aware. Once ANY information is written over data, the original data becomes near impossible to recover (like months upon months of 'trying' to restore it, and even then it wont be completely accurate). If its written over twice then its gone forever.

Using a microscope it's techically possible to find out what a bit was before it was overwritten, though whether anyone could recover any usable data is another matter entirely.

aliEnRIK

Marty ~ im well aware its possible using SERIOUSLY slow going techniques. But unless youve primed bombs to go off in a nursery school somewhere I dont think theyll be checked like that somehow
I put that more as an answer to the OP. Theres no 'EASY' way of retrieving said info without the aid of 'serious' equipment and people who are absolutely dedicated to doing such a job.
So for example, theres probably no one in the whole of this site that would have even the slightest clue how to go about it.

oooooooo ~ yout not a terrorist are you Samanthas?? :xmassmile