How many tracks are you leaving behind you online? Are you leaving your history exposed for anyone to read?

Sure, a trained computer snoop can dig up a little dirt on anyone – but the average computer user can find all kind of your hidden history too, without even meaning to. Anyone could find your Google search history, a list of previously downloaded files, a record of previously viewed files or web pages, and much more.

To defend your privacy, you have to take an active role to clear history and search files.

Delete Internet History

When you work to delete your Internet history, there are a lot of different areas that you’ll have to clean. There’s not only the history of the pages your web browser (like Internet Explorer, Mozilla, or Chrome) has visited, there’s also:

• A history of items you’ve searched in Google (search keywords that you typed in the past)
• Temporary files and cache files saved from visited pages (these can be data files, images, and so on)
• Items you’ve entered on other web pages (such as login details, financial details, or search terms on individual websites)
• Files previously downloaded and saved (and their file names)
• Cookies (tiny identification files left by many websites)
• A history within items that you used online (for example, flash videos)

Clear Computer History

What about the history of things you’ve done on your PC itself? Yes, you can delete individual files (don’t forget to empty the recycle bin!), but is that enough? Your system will record:

• A history of recently opened files
• Individual programs, such as Windows Media Player, QuickTime, VLC media player, and more, have their own records of viewed clips
• Chat logs from Instant Messaging
• History of items downloaded via BitTorrent and other P2P file transfer applications
• Almost every action you commit on your PC may be recorded in some way

As if that wasn’t enough, even deleting files might not be enough: if someone really wanted to find out what you deleted, they could use special data recovery software to bring it back.

If you want your private history to stay private, then you’ll need to get help to delete and completely clear your history. If you really want a spotless history with no trace of any of your activities, you’ll need cleaning software. I recommend PC Health Advisor.

Along with its other functions, PC Health Advisor scans your PC for all of the history files listed above, and permanently deletes them. You don’t need to remember everywhere you’ve been and clean manually – Privacy Controls provides automated history deletion.

After you’ve scanned with PC Health Advisor, your PC will be as clean as it was the day it was made. All private and personal history files that you don’t want seen will be gone. It will forget anything it ever recorded, and any other computer users will be completely unable to access any history.

Download PC Health Advisor now, and see for yourself what’s hiding in your computer. The program is available with a free download and scan, so you can find out how vulnerable your history really is.

PC Health Advisor is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, and XP.

Finally, don’t worry about additional files on your PC that you want to keep. PC Health Advisor is specifically designed to only destroy history files – your own documents that you want to keep will be entirely safe. As an added precaution, you can preview all files before getting rid of them for good.

Download PC Health Advisor now  and clear your history – or risk having it exposed.

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