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What your e-mail program, computer and internet connection are telling others about you. Whats a cookie, and why do I want or need one ? What was that pop-up screen? How do they know how many times I did visit this site. How did they see where I was coming from and who I am? Scary stuff . Just about all you do, say and e-mail on the net is ..seen. Every company that stores information about its customers or visitors should publish a privacy policy. We offer some insight into safety and some security on the Internet. Family safe surfing is a major concern and rightfully so. I feel angry when I do a new search to find new and fun sites with things on the net to add to my childrens pages (If you have visited those pages you'll see I have been doing that for years and have compiled everything I feel comfortable to offer to children and families. ) and there in the midst a porn site comes up mixed in. (Which by the way if you happen apon a suspicious childrens site send the URL off to the US Customs website they protect all our children by tracking down and punishing websites and others that exploit children. Maybe just plain annoying exit pop-ups you click on accidently to close the darned window, not realizing you just sent the site owner your name and other information in your e-mail program. Makes me shutter that there are indeed malicious websites intent on just gathering your personal info. A Tempting entry for a great sounding contest that asks you to submit everything from what type of credit card you use down to the color of socks you are wearing.

Optout Of E.T Programs
Excellent resource to find out who's watching your system and sending that info "home". Learn what a joke most privacy policy statements are and how to rid your system of their intruding phone home bugs in your system Read more about these stealth spy programs at TimeDigital.com

Anonymous surfing and e-mailing
Remailers are computer services which privatize your e-mail. "pseudo-anonymous" and an "anonymous" remailers.A "PSEUDO anonymous" remailer is basically an account that you open with a remailer operator who knows your real e-mail address. ANONYMOUS remailers are a different. They provide much more privacy than PSEUDO anonymous remailers. However, in general, they are much harder to use than their PSEUDO anonymous.
Anonymizer.com - Turn to Anonymizer.com for the best known and most used tools for preserving your Safety and Privacy on the internet. They offer Anonimous Surfing, e-mail, dial-up and server protection also. Try some of their free services.
Anonymizer Surfing -Browse the Web through Anonymizer.com's premium or free service using an intermediary to prevent unauthorized parties from gathering your personal information.
Anonymizer Email -This free service allows you to send email and post your opinion without being spammed, or identified.
Anonymizer Window Washer -Preserve your privacy, remove your tracks. Windows and other software programs store information on your activities. Documents you have used, websites you have visited and various other activities are all logged.
Anonymizer Dial-up -This service provides pre-paid, anonymous dial-up connections at 56k Flex speeds in many cities across the United States. Anonymizer Dial-up includes an Anonymizer Surfing account.
IDZap -Surf the web safely. Everywhere we visit, our activities are logged.Powerful data mining software is used to uncover the characteristics of web site visitors. Try some of thier programs free.
Free Anonymous Browsing -Freely Surf the web anonymously. Protects privacy. Control Javascript and cookies. They offer these terrrific paid services also. IDsecure Browsing Anonymous Web Hosting Web hosting with your domain name.

Encryption software

CodedDrag -Strong Data-Encryption on your Desktop. CodedDrag encrypts your personal data using strong encryption algorithms like Triple DES and Blowfish. It was developed as an example tool to demonstrate the new possibilities of the Windows 95 / NT 4.0 shell. An evaluation version is available for download.
Cryptext -Cryptext is a public domain Windows 95 / Windows 98 / NT 4 shell extension that performs strong file encryption, and is available in English, French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese language versions. You just right-click on any file system object to encrypt or decrypt it. It uses a combination of SHA-1 and RC4 to encrypt files using a 160-bit key, and generates a salt value for each file to ensure that no two files are encrypted with the same keystream.
Crypto Kong -Digital signatures and encryption software trial version.

Cookies Why are sites sending you cookies and do you really need or want them.
Cookies are small text files that are saved on your computer by your browser to help sites keep track of you. What are they for used for? They are a helpful tool to save certain information that makes it eaier to return to a favorite site and without to much effort the site remembers you and helps making your access to their service quicker and easier. Some common cookies used are the Vistor cookie, each time you visit a site, it opens the cookie saved on your computer. Preference cookie, stores your preferences and tells the site how to load the page. Shopping cookie, this cookie assigns an ID to you. The ID matches an ID file on the server and saves your preferences and purchases on their server. This is for ordering and future visits. Say you shopped for groceries or personal items on-line. When you visit your favorite shopping site your list of items from previous purchases pop up, all you need do is add or remove items and your shopping is done. Tracking cookies, these can be helpful or bad cookies. Basicly you are being tracked where and what you do after visitng a site through a sales banner ad. Some companies, which have gathered some things such as your e-mail address which they can only get if they asked you to fill something out, they will spam you on products with the information that they have gathered about you. A serious threat to privacy is that some companies are reading other companies' cookie files and using the personal data for their own marketing purposes.

Cookies'n other goodies
Netscape - Netscape explains their cookies.
CookieCruncher -Cookie Cruncher 2.00 Protects your hard drive from unwanted cookies. The latest version of Cookie Cruncher works with AOL, Microsoft Internet Explorer, and Netscape Naviagator. It now gives you the power to select which cookies to keep or delete at boot up. You can also view the content of the cookies and edit Explorer and AOL cookies.
Cookie Central - A comprehensive resource on Internet cookies, including what they are and how to block or stop them.
Anonymous Cookie -Anonymous Cookie offers an 'anonymizer' mode that instantly disables all cookies in your cookie directory or cookie file and allows you to browse the World Wide Web with anonymity. The user can switch to this mode by simply clicking on the program's icon and selecting the desired mode
Cookie Web Kit -Cookie Web kit from Cookie Central automates the deletion of your cookie files everytime you boot up your computer or click on a certain icon. It works by the use of a simple bat file, and can also be configured to delete cache and history files.
Cookie Pal Cookie Pal -A complete Internet cookie management system for Windows 95 and NT 4.0. It lets you automatically accept and reject Internet cookies from all sites or just from sites you specify, without having to click on the Web browser's annoying "Cookie Alert" messages all the time.
ZDnet Cookie Master 2 -ZDNet's CookieMaster is a tool for monitoring cookie activity on your computer. Compatible with both Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer.
CookieServer -Cookie-Server gives you control over the cookies accepted and used by your computer, allowing complete monitoring, selective handling, firewall protection and even proxy support for other programs. Try an evaluation version of Cookie Server software. This version is valid only for specific time-period, without a purchase will no longer run. Simular to IE Clean with several added features.

IEClean (32-bit) Version: 3.01 This demo shows how to guard your privacy by using IEClean to remove sensitive information from your Internet Explorer cache and cookie files. Explore the contents of your cookie files, cache directories, and URL window data. This demo illustrates, but does not perform, the browser-cleaning tasks accomplished in the commercial version.

BOClean version 4.04 - This software protects you against Back Orifice, Netbus, Master's Paradise and over 210 other trojan horse programs (plus over 1000 variants of these trojan horses not specifically named) and automatically removes these programs from memory, your hard disk and your registry without the need to reboot or drop your internet connection. BOClean safely neutralizes these threats instantly without any risk of damage to your files or computer.

Mac Programs
NoMoreCookies -NoMoreCookies is an AppleScript application that watches the Cookies and the History files that a web browser maintains. The program checks the files at your defined intervals and empties them if they've been updated. This virtually insures that no shadey individual can optain information about your web where-abouts.
Cookie Monster -Cookie Monster is a helpful utility that removes cookie files from your Netscape and Internet Explorer folders. Cookies are used by some Web sites and usually contain harmless, nonpersonal information that allows the Web site to recognize you when you return. In some cases, personal information may be stored in the cookie. With Cookie Monster set up to launch at start-up, you don't have to worry about the cookie files, as they will automatically be removed.
Cookie Cutter -Cookie Cutter helps by giving you control of the MagicCookie file. You can selectively remove cookies, automatically remove cookies from certain domain names, or ignore cookies from some or all sites. This app only does one thing, but it's the best solution if you have objections to having your online visits tracked and want to do something about it.
Scape Goat -ScapeGoat is an application that allows you to easily/automatically delete the MagicCookie and/or Global History files created by NetScape in the Preferences Folder on your startup disk. The MagicCookie file on a Macintosh (in the NetScape Folder inside the Preferences Folder inside the System Folder) contains information ("cookies") that a web site wants to write to your hard drive.
CookieCleaner -CookieCleaner helps you keep your Mac nice and neat by deleting unwanted cookie files in your Netscape browser. Cookies are sent via the Internet when you visit some World Wide Web sites. These cookies can contain private information that you wouldn't necessarily want stored on your machine. CookieCleaner lets you specify which cookies to delete.

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