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Why does anyone need an Internet Eraser?

An internet track is just a work file created by your browser or email program when you use the internet. While internet tracks exist to speed up browsing and to provide some convenient features for the internet user, they also present two problems.

1. Internet tracks can be read by other people, which creates a privacy risk for some users.
2. Internet tracks take up alot of disk space.
   
   

When you clear your cache or history, you do recover the disk space that was being used, but the potential for the data to be recovered by someone else is still there. As Kim Komando said,

"When you delete a file, its space on the hard drive is essentially marked "this space available." The file remains on your hard drive. But [the operating system] considers it forgotten and will reuse the space whenever necessary. Only then will the deleted information be destroyed [Komando, "How to delete files for good", May 2005]

So any time you use a delete function, like "clear cache" to clear browser cache, the data is still on your hard drive and can still be recovered, until it is overwritten by something else. And if you have alot of free space on your hard drive, it could be there for months or even years.

To erase internet tracks, so they can't be recovered, you need to shred them with a file shredder as soon as you're finished using the internet. As you can imagine, this would be alot of work to do manually, since you'd have to shred the required files for each type of track you were concerned with (cache, history, favicons, etc), each and every time you quit from your browser. Fortunately, this task can be automated using a piece of software known as an internet track eraser.

Do YOU need to erase YOUR internet tracks?

Unfortunately, scare tactics are sometimes used to convince people that everyone needs an internet track eraser. Well, don't let them scare you.

While it's clear that some people need to erase internet tracks, you might not be one of them.

To determine whether you need to erase your internet tracks, answer these three questions:

1. What's in your internet tracks that could be recovered?
   
   Internet banking information? email newsletters? deleted emails? download history?
   
   
2. What is the likelihood of someone else getting access to your computer and recovering your internet tracks?
   
   Your room mates, their friends, the thief who just walked away with the laptop your left on the plane,....
   
   
3. How bad could it be if someone did recover your internet tracks?

• Would it allow someone to steal your identity?
  
  
• Would it cause you or someone else loss of income or embarassment?
  
  
• Would it jeopardize your job, end your marriage, or worse?