Freeware In Internet Privacy / Security

Internet Sweeper erases the Cache, History, Cookies, Addresses, Messages, and Temporary Files. It also closes those annoying javascript browser popup windows.

Automatically cleans up all traces of your Internet activity at Windows shutdown, start up or when the last window of Internet Explorer is closed.

Will clean up: URL history, typed URLs (addres bar auto complete, you can keep selective URLs), temporary internet files, cookies (you kan keep selective cookies), auto complete forms history, recent documents, windows temporary files, recent file list for a few popular programs (including Media Player and RealOne Player) and more.

IE Privacy Keeper has secure deletion feature to prevent data recovery. You can specify custom files and registry keys to delete. IE Privacy Keeper is absolutely free! Special unique features of IE Privacy Keeper allow you to conceal the cleanup. You can keep selective items in the browsing history and hide the program form the list of running applications. Secure deletion will make any attempts to recover deleted items fail.

Features:

• Cleans up Interent Explorer and Mozilla Firefox history
• Cleans up index.dat files without the need for a Windows restart
• Keep selected items
• Cleans up your offline activity traces
• Cleans up custom folders and registry keys
• Automatically cleans up when IE or Firefox exits
• Various notification methods
• Secure deletion

For ex., a browser helper object can install hooks to monitor messages and actions, etc .Some BHOs are helpful, like the Adobe Acrobat or Google Toolbar Browser Helper Objects, but there could be malicious ones among them that will harm your computer, especially those planted by viruses or spyware. BhoScanner allows you to discover browser helper objects of your computer including parasites and trojans.

As you browse the internet, Internet Explorer stores information about every page that you have visited on to your computer. Anyone who uses your computer, including a hacker can get hold of these information. They also take up precious system resources, slowing down your computer and browsing speed. Most windows applications you run, also store temporary files and initialisation data in certain folders as well as in windows registry. It leaves system usage tracks and slows down your computer.

This prevents access to the listed sites in the HOSTS file by redirecting any connection attempts back to the local machine. Another feature of the HOSTS file is its ability to block other applications from connecting to the Internet. With HostsBlocker, you can add DNS servers you want to block, remove a blocked DNS server, and update the blocked DNS servers online. HostsBlocker includes 12472 blocked DNS servers.