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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

Erasing the footprints that surfing leaves behind

My son and his friends use my PC to surf all sorts of websites. Is it possible to remove traces of where they have been without buying a specific program to do the job? Brian Lobell

If people are using the same PC, it's best if they log on using different accounts. Otherwise, the free "crap cleaner" CCleaner (http://www.ccleaner.com/) does a pretty good job of removing tracks such as the browser history, cookies, autocomplete entries and, if necessary, the index.dat file.

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