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Caution!
Your Web visits can be tracked on your home computer
If
you are concerned that your visits to women’s shelter websites are
being tracked by someone, you need to clear your history of web
visits. This can be done with the instructions below.
If
you are uncomfortable doing this, visit your local library or go to
a friend’s house to use a different computer from your home
computer.
Here is what to do:
Internet Explorer
1. On the Tools
menu, select
Internet Options.
2. On General page, under
Temporary Internet Files,
click on "Delete
Files".
3. Under
History
click on "Clear
History."
AOL
1.
Pull down
Members
menu, select
Preferences.
2.
Click on
WWW
icon.
3.
Select
Advanced.
4.
Click "Purge
Cache".
Netscape
1.
Pull down
Edit
menu.
2.
In the menu that drops down, click on "Preferences".
3.
Click on
Navigator
and choose "Clear
History".
4.
Click on
Advanced
then select
Cache.
5.
Click on "Clear
Disk Cache".
Please Note:
Clearing web browser histories in this way will delete ALL
histories of visited websites. If you are concerned that someone may
be checking up on your Internet usage, the absence of all files and
history may appear suspicious.
Additionally, there are other software programs available that can
track website visits. |