Decades back when Sting churned out the chart topper “Every breath you take…I’ll be watching you”, he must’ve thought about dedicating to his lady love. But years later, it now seems that these same words can be easily and in a well fitted manner applied to one’s personal computer. In other words, from logging in to logging out whatever the user does on the computer ranging from typing out a word document, watching a movie or browsing porn sites on the internet, the computer keeps a record of it in the system folders in the form of temporary internet files or cookies, etc. These files can be easily accessed later by anyone, the user or the others as well, in order to get an idea of the previous activities on that particular computer.
While it may sound to be quite an advantageous idea, the fact that each and every move of a user gets recorded in the system folders and also in the operating system related software and applications such as the Windows media player, etc and is there to see for anyone who logs in is a serious compromise on the issue of a user’s privacy and can indeed have serious and damaging consequences on his or her professional as well as personal life. Hence, the best solution one can possibly come up with in order to confront such potentially threatening situations is to be extremely particular about clearing all the records from the internet history. While this task can be performed manually by deleting all the relevant files and cookies, it is always recommended to use one of those applications to make a surer job out of it and do the entire thing in a more efficient manner.
Privacy Control software is one such application and one of the most popular and efficient ones available at the moment. Considered by several web sites and magazines as the leading software application for protecting one’s privacy so far the computer related activities are concerned, Privacy Control mainly functions by checking out all the relevant folders on one’s system and deleting them methodically so as to efface out all the aspects which could have been later identified as footprints on the computer. Moreover, it has a highly user friendly interface with a variety of options making it extremely easy for the user to decide exactly what to get rid of and which ones to keep intact. Privacy Control scans the entire system and projects a summary for the user to select the files and cookies to be wiped out. This task not only just preserves the user’s privacy but also enhances the performance of the overall system. Privacy Control requires a 300 MHz processor, a 64 MB memory and 20 MB of free hard disk space to run on one’s computer. It is compatible with almost all the operating systems since the Windows 2000 including XP, Vista, 2003 with all of their versions.