This tutorial will show you how to erase your

Internet History beyond recovery.

I will using Cyberscrub Privacy Suite to do this,

as I use it myself and personally recommend it.

The Image to the left is the first screen you see,

on launching the Application.

For any file to be deleted, the

Operating System has to write over

the "space" or track, it left on the hard drive.

If it is not, this "space" can be retrieved, using Data Recovery Software. Your Internet History will then visible.

If you click on "Erase beyond recovery" from the

image above you will see the page opposite.

Here you can define some pre sets

for how you want Cyberscrub to function.

You must have the Local C drive checked,

as your files containing your

Internet History are stored there.

The Delete Data - Wipe Options should also have

the four items checked, as per the opposite image.

I leave the recycle bin unchecked as I use

a different process within Cyberscrub

Clicking the "priority settings" on the page above, brings up the page opposite.

I recommend that you close all applications and run this in real time.

This can be a lengthy process and take several hours, especially if

you are destroying your internet history for the very first time.

You don't want any other processes hogging your CPUs power.

On the getting started page ( two above) clicking

 "Erasure Settings " will bring up the page opposite.

Here you can select how severe an algorithm

you wish to apply.Your files have to be

 overwritten, not once, but several times.

I use the method highlighted opposite - although if

time is critical then I use the  NAVSO P-5329-26. This algorithm is much quicker than the one highlighted.

Now you have set up how you want to erase

and the processing priority, it is time to

set up what you want to destroy, beyond recovery.

If you go back to the very first screen

you will see " Privacy Guard" on the left hand side.

Clicking the Icon, brings up the page opposite.

Clicking "Advanced " will take you to the

Browser settings which must be configured.

Other settings can be configured here,

but for this tutorial, I will focus on the basics.

Clicking "next " brings up the page opposite.

I will look at the application tab later but for now,

check internet explorer, or what ever browser you use.

 

Clicking "Properties" brings up the opposite page. The three top spaces need

to be populated. They are:  history, cookies and Temporary internet files.

When you first open this they are unpopulated. By clicking "Auto populate"

Cyberscrub will find the path and locations for you. You can now see that

three separate files need to be overwritten, in order for your

internet history to be destroyed beyond recovery. 

 

I have touched on this, simply because of the

vulnerabilities in other applications used on the web.

This is particularly relevant, when using Internet Explorer,

which is the most popular target for browser hackers.

As a browser it has many flaws and holes, some of which

have yet to be discovered. This is why so many updates

are released.

It is vital that  the Adobe flash player is checked.


Over than half of the web’s top sites employ a little known use of

Adobe’s Macromedia Flash plug-in, to track users and store information about them.

Unlike normal browser cookies, Flash cookies are fairly unknown to the web user,

and they are not controlled through the cookie privacy tools in a browser.

This means that even if a user thinks they have deleted their computer of

tracking objects, chances are they have not.

They can be found on your PC by going to

C:\Documents and Settings\" your user name "\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects\

Clicking "next" on either the browser page or the

application page brings up the screen opposite.

Simply check scramble files and folders properties

and click Start.

After the erasing procedure has run,

you will need to restart your machine for this

process to be permanent. I prefer to

shut down my machine manually.

This is the screen you get when Cyberscrub is actually

doing its  job. You can see it has three tasks to do:

Wipe files , Wipe registry entries and Scramble files.

With this high pressure algorithm selected,

it does all the above 3 times, then another 7 times

and finally and other 3 times.

This particular internet history has been destroyed, beyond all recovery.
 

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