privacy tool for Netscape.

[Shirl Kennedy]

One subject that surfaces on this list from time to time is clearing browser
history, etc., on public access Internet terminals, to preserve patron
privacy.  I just read about what looks like a nifty little shareware app,
used in conjunction with Netscape, that automatically takes care of this.
Program is called Cover Your Tracks
(http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/5610/cyt.html)

"Cover Your Tracks is a privacy tool for Netscape. It's (sic) purpose is to
clear everything that could indicate which web sites you've visited. More
specifically, Cover Your Tracks will clear the pulldown bar, cache files,
history files, cookies, and recent documents in the start menu if you are
using Netscape 3.x or 4.x.   Cover Your Tracks is fully customizable in that
you can choose whether or not you want the cache, history, cookies, or
recent documents to be cleared. Registered users can enable Auto-Clearing, a
feature that performs all indicated clearing operations and then closes
Cover Your Tracks automatically when it is executed."

You can download the program from the Web page.  (Beware the onslaught of
pop-up ads; Geocities is getting downright awful this way.)

BTW, I was pleasantly surprised when I checked out this page to find that
the proprietors of "Fat-Free Software" -- the outfit behind Cover Your
Tracks -- were two local high school students, one of whom attends the
Center for Advanced Technologies (http://www.cat.pinellas.k12.fl.us/) in St.
Petersburg with my older son.




Shirl Kennedy
Internet Waves columnist -- Information Today
Best Bet Internet:  Reference and Research When You Don't Have Time to Mess
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