Tons of Free Internet Security Help with Issues (part 2)

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

Quick Help to disable cookies in popular browsers.
Stopping Cookies In Netscape In the netscape directory there should be a file called cookies.txt or magiccookie on the mac, search for this file if you cannot find it. This file is where all the all the cookie entries are found, you can delete the contents of this file regardless of the warning at the top of the page. After the contents have been deleted save the file and set its attributes to read-only, hidden and system. This will stop cookies from being set persistently on your hard disk, but it will not stop cookies from being set in memory while netscape is running, but when you exit netscape these cookies will be cleared. This is probably a good alternative to have netscape alert you when a site wants to set a cookie, this becomes more of an annoyance than a prevention.
Stopping Cookies In IE + Stopping Cookies In Internet Explorer Internet Explorerno-longer stores cookies in a single file, but each cookie as a separate file in the windows\cookies directory, this makes it harder stop cookies, but if you want to stop individual cookies, like the doubleclick cookies, you can corrupt the cookie by deleting the contents then saving the file and setting its attributes read-only, hidden and system, this means when you log onto a site which has set that cookie it cannot read any information off your cookie or give you a new one. Like in netscape you can set IE to alert you before accepting cookie, to do this go to the View menu | options | advanced tag and click on "warn before accepting cookies"

File deletion Programs
BCWipe -The BCWipe utility is a shell extender for Windows 95/98/NT, intended to secure delete your files. It supports correspondent U.S. Department of Defense recommendations.
FileCruncher -File Cruncher is a utility that completly deletes files off your computer. Once a file is deleted by File Cruncher, it will never be able to be retrieved again. Permanently delete files off your hard drive which contain personal information or other materials you wish to remove.
Junk Busters - The Internet Junkbuster Proxy TM is free privacy-enhancing software that can be run on your PC or by your ISP or company. It blocks requests for URLs (typically banner ads) that match its blockfile. It also deletes unauthorized cookies and other unwanted identifying header information that is exchanged between web servers and browsers. These headers are not normally accessible to users (even though they may contain information that's important to your privacy), but with the Internet Junkbuster you can see almost anything you want and control everything you're likely to need.
The Internet Junkbusters thwart identification by identd. If your computer (or your ISP's) is running the identd demon, servers can ask it for the identity of the user making the request at time you request a page from them. But if you're going through a proxy, they will identify the user name associated with the proxy, not you. A visit to http://ident.junkbusters.com lets you see what's happening. This test is (quite rightly) blocked by many firewalls; just interrupt the transfer if you get an abnormal wait after clicking. Running other applications may also expose you via identd; the proxy of course doesn't help then.
JunkBusters Privacy Issues-You can be tracked from your mouse clicks. Your browser assembles each page by making ``HTTP requests'' for its text and graphics parts from one or more web sites. These sites may not have been named in the link you clicked on: two banner ads on the same page can come from different companies. Your browser gives all of them a lot of information you might prefer to keep private. Most sites store these details indefinitely. How they know where you came from The ``HTTP Referer'' tells them what led you to the request. If you use a search engine to find a site, the entire query you typed is typically handed to the sites you then click on. If you clicked on a banner advertisement, the URL may contain coded data used to target specific ads at you. (Before clicking on an ad, look at the URL displayed for it. Codes and long addresses suggest that your mouse clicks are being tracked.) If the URL you clicked on was in one of your private files, such as your email reader may use, the full file name is still handed over to the web site. It may contain information about you such as an indication of your name or email address, the email program you are using, and the structure of your file space. And so much more .....
This site is very technical and you can gain a tremendous insight into the workings of visiting websites and reading your mail. How easily you can be identified and tracked.
Junk Busters -How to protect your privacy from commercial invasions
Electronic Privacy Information Page -The Internet Engineering Task Force is now considering a proposal to fix some of the problems with cookies. A coalition of consumer, educational and privacy groups has urged the IETF to adopt the proposal.
Computer Privacy Study -What a study revealed as to Cookie usage and any concerns.

Email Programs
Privacy Freeware
Private Idaho
RPK InvisiMail
ScramDisk
The Replay Remailer
Whisper 32
ZipLip

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