Product FAQ - Clever Privacy Cleaner Free
Q 01: What are the benefits of Clever Privacy Cleaner Free?
Q 02: What does Clever Privacy Cleaner Free do?
Q 03: Why should you use our software?
Q 04: Why do you need to clean my internet history?
Q 06: Why do the some browser history still there after erasing?
Q 08: Why the index.dat file still exist after I erase them?
Q 09: Why Delete Your Recycle Bin?
Q 11: What is the purpose of cookies?
Q 13: Can cookies threaten users' privacy?
Q 01: What are the benefits of Clever Privacy Cleaner Free?
A: Protects your privacy on your system and the Internet;
Improves your Internet surfing speeds;
Improves the speed of your computer system;
Recovers and maximizes valuable hard drive space;
Boost your system performance.
Q 02: What does Clever Privacy Cleaner Free do?
A: Clever Privacy Cleaner Free is designed to protect you by cleaning up all the unwanted history data on your computer. With only one click, Clever Privacy Cleaner Free utility allows you to erase the cache, cookies, history, typed URLs and much more.
Q 03: Why should you use our software?
A: Some files created by the browser and other popular applications often contain confidential information, which can tell a lot about the user. Therefore, if you care about your privacy and would like to protect this information from falling into somebody else's hands, make sure to clean up your system from time to time - especially if you are an active Internet user. And, our free privacy protector is just on your target.
Q 04: Why do you need to clean my internet history?
A: It has become important nowadays to protect your privacy especially if you are sharing your PC with someone else. You would definitely not want your boss, administrator, colleagues or family members to figure out what work you were doing or which sites you have visited. Your computer is like a recording machine that records almost all the activities that you perform on it like visited sites, typed URLs, cache, cookies, recently run documents and many more. Clever Privacy Cleaner Free helps you to clear all the traces of your recent activities on your computer and maintain your privacy even on shared computer.
A: When you delete a file from Windows, Windows just mark the file
as deleted in file allocation table, but the data of the file is still in your hard
disk, there are many tools available which can let others easily recover your sensitive
files. Clever Privacy Cleaner Free can overwrite file with character zeros, ones
and random numbers.
Clever Privacy Cleaner Free implements the US Department of Defense DOD 5220.22-M
and NSA clearing and sanitizing standard, once deleted with this privacy cleaner
tool, your file data is gone forever and cannot be recovered.
Q 06: Why do the some browser history still there after erasing?
A: You should close all the browser windows before erasing, because the files cannot be erased when they are in use. For MSN, AOL and Netscape, even you close all their windows, they may still be active. To close them completely, please check the system tray (lower right area of the screen) to see if there are their icons. When found, click on it to close the application.
Q 07: Can Clever Privacy Cleaner Free erase the Search history when I click the Search button on Internet Explorer?
A: Yes, you can do that by checking the "Internet Explorer -> Auto Complete" item on the left sidebar.
Q 08: Why the index.dat file still exist after I erase them?
A: Index.dat stores information about what websites you have visited and what cookies have been saved, the index.dat files are always locked by the system when Windows is running and cannot be deleted. You need to reboot your computer, Clever Privacy Cleaner Free overwrites these index.dat files with blank characters, others can see nothing useful form these files after erasing, so you do not have to worry about it.
Q 09: Why Delete Your Recycle Bin?
A: Because 94% of computers have a privacy risk! Anyone who has access to your computer can view your Internet history and files, including email, pictures, movies, and online chats. Your wife, kids, boss and even hackers could find this info!
A: A cookie is a piece of information in the form of a very small text file that is placed on an internet user's hard drive. It is generated by a web page server, which is basically the computer that operates a web site. The information the cookie contains is set by the server and it can be used by that server whenever the user visits the site. A cookie can be thought of as an internet user's identification card, which tell a web site when the user has returned.
Q 11: What is the purpose of cookies?
A: Cookies make the interaction between users and web sites faster
and easier. Without cookies, it would be very difficult for a web site to allow
a visitor to fill up a shopping cart or to remember the user's preferences or registration
details for a future visit.
Web sites use cookies mainly because they save time and make the browsing experience
more efficient and enjoyable. Web sites often use cookies for the purposes of collecting
demographic information about their users.
Cookies enable web sites to monitor their users' web surfing habits and profile
them for marketing purposes (for example, to find out which products or services
they are interested in and send them targeted advertisements).
A: No. Cookies are small pieces of text. They are not computer programs, and they can't be executed as code. Also, they cannot be used to disseminate viruses, and modern versions of both Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape browsers allow users to set their own limitations to the number of cookies saved on their hard drives.
Q 13: Can cookies threaten users' privacy?
A: Cookies are stored on the computer's hard drive. They cannot
access the hard drive - so a cookie can't read other information saved on the hard
drive, or get a user's e-mail address etc. They only contain and transfer to the
server as much information as the users themselves have disclosed to a certain web
site.
A server cannot set a cookie for a domain that it is not a member of. In spite of
this, users quite often find in their computer files cookies from web sites that
they have never visited. These cookies are usually set by companies that sell internet
advertising on behalf of other web sites. Therefore it may be possible that users'
information is passed to third party web sites without the users' knowledge or consent,
such as information on surfing habits. This is the most common reason for people
rejecting or fearing cookies.
A: File Shredder is a small utility that will completely erase the contents of sensitive files and folders that you specify. When you delete a file from Windows, Windows just mark the file as deleted in file allocation table, but the data of the file is still in your hard disk, there are many tools available which can let others easily recover your sensitive files. File Shredder using Security Options to completely overwrite the contents of a file and then deletes it.