Privacy and You - Picking the Right Software.
With all of the software for cleaning your
browser history available on the Internet today it can sometimes be
difficult to determine which solution is best suited to your needs.
There are many products available and each may look the same to the
untrained eye. Companies may try to lead you to believe that their
product is the best suited and the most innovative solution
available with propaganda and tricky sales tactics. Instead of just
stating that our product is better, we want our customers to
understand what it does and actually try it out. In the end, only
you can decide what is right for your history cleaning needs- but we
would like to try and help to demystify the process of making that
decision.
Why I need a history cleaner?
Perhaps you’re wondering what privacy
concerns are there that you need to worry about during your everyday
computer use. While most history tracks are useless to you and I,
they can be the doorway to the beginnings of identity theft.
According to the Federal Trade Commission and the US Census Bureau
in 2003 over 34 million people were victims of identity theft, just
over 12% of the population. Gone are the days of not worrying about
what information is stored on your computer as all of the
information stored on it may be retrieved by even the most novice of
computer users thanks to the ever growing popularity of computer spy
programs. A computer spy program can retrieve and make sense of all
the miscellaneous and seemingly useless information that is stored
in the computer from every day use. This includes but is not limited
to what emails you send, what websites you visit, your account
information at websites you may frequent and much more! History
cleaning products such as our PrivacyBuddy delete this information
from your computer so that it may not be retrieved by spying eyes.
Your role in history cleaning?
Cleaning history in the past meant starting
up the history cleaning program of your choice and manually running
through what you want it to clean. This can be not only confusing,
but a hassle as well to do often. Software such as Window Washer
takes on this
responsibility in a way no other history cleaning software does,
fully automating the process of cleaning and maintaining your
computer’s history. Window Washer
also gives you a selection of
different events that occur when your computer is running that you
can select from to clean your system.
Some other software may offer automation as
well, but most products are limited to only two events, such as when
the system boots up or shuts down. This may be enough for some
users, but for those of us who don’t always remember to turn the
computer off when we’re done browsing the internet, this just
isn’t acceptable! Alternatively some programs may offer support
for cleaning your system when you close your internet browser, which
is a great idea in theory, but consider this- what if you close your
browser window for just a minute then realize you need to get back
to a page you just spent 10 minutes searching for, but your history
cleaning solution has erased your history which would have easily
lead you back to the page?
This can be quite unsettling, so PrivacyBuddy
instead offers you the option of having your history
cleaned when you’re away from the computer for a certain amount of
time and your screen saver is activated. Bundled with the support
for the other system events mentioned above, PrivacyBuddy
makes sure
that your role in the cleaning process is what it should be; just
using your computer and knowing you’re protected!
Picking the right solution for you.
Most companies believe that all of your
needs are best satisfied by their products. Knowing that the best
person to determine your needs is you, we would suggest trying out
our software and comparing it to others you find, in order to come
to the best decision possible. The best protection you can have
against identity theft is not our software, but knowing how to get
the software that works best for you. Armed with your new knowledge,
you can evaluate for yourself and make your own choices. To start
protecting yourself from the threats of identity theft we suggest
that you download PrivacyBuddy and witness for yourself what we can
do.
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