Ha; that's why I always keep a roll of paper towels nearby when online.

Anyone know the best way to clean my screen?

Handi wipes and chemtronics cleaner degreaser. We use touch screen technology at work and this really gets the oil print marks from ones oily finger tips. www.chemtronics.com

you can find something similar at a Best Buy or Radio Shack.

Thanks a million wofer! I really appreciate the info!

Well it needed a good cleaning anyways. I used the wet eye glass wipes and it does a good job. No streaks. I was worried, cause I have a 22" flat screen. I knew it would happen sooner or later. But I didn't think I would be the one to mess it up.

I'll keep some wipes here in my drawer in case I run across O&W's one liners again.

Not directed at you Taz, but, keeping on topic, I saw Alexa on yesterday crawling with a search spider.

Really?

Oh yes, however, it's really no suprise to me.

I personally use Firefox on both my Linux and (sadly) Windoze boxen. What I prefer to do is just use a secure delete tool on my cache, cookies etc... Makes things a hell of a lot easier, and generally makes it safer; especially considering DB can be considered to be risky business. This makes it practically impossible for anyone to recover anything meaningful from your HDD. As long as you use a lot of passes and random data to overwrite - and preferably wipe RAM.

srm - Secure Removal Tool for LINUX

eraser - Secure Removal Tool for WINDOWS

Lastly, remember: When you delete ANYTHING on Windows or any other file system - with right clck delete etc. or even with CCleaner (providing you haven't configured it to not do this) it will NEVER really delete a file, rather, it removes the reference to it from your HDD. Meaning that ANY average Joe has a good chance of recovering the files, and law-enforcement have more so. If you use the above tools, even the FBI and CID would probably struggle recovering data, and only if they were to invest millions could they have a hope in hell of recovering it - and still probably would fail.

That is not to say that you should assume you are 100% secure and free from worry; because you are not.

Thanks Taz for pointing that out. I just set mine to do the same.

@meonlyits - You should really look into the method I outlined above; Taz's methods is all well and good, but to anyone with the slightest knowledge, all that information is recoverable. If you want to do anything, set it so it doesn't even record browsing history etc.. and securely wipe cookies.

@genethebean1 - I found that LastPass is effective for keeping login information and auto-login etc.. However, this isn't the most secure of things to use, by any means.

Mine automatically does all that. That's how I set it up.

Firefox is the bomb. LOL

It automatically does what? Securely wipes the cookies and history (doubt it)? or just doesn't save the history in the first place?

Point I was making is that using Firefox to wipe history etc is inefficient

I'm also using the new Windows 7. Everytime I get out of my browsers, I only have to click one item and that is browsing history and it does the rest for me.

@Taz - It doesn't matter, it doesn't change the fact that if browsing history exists during the session, unless it is stored on RAM, it will NOT be securely deleted, and can be potentially recovered.

Just to jump in here - I had a boss last year who thought he was very computer proficient. He had a problem with his computer, and asked me to take a look rather than our IT department (he just doesn't like those guys, LOL!)

While I was on his system, he asked me to look and see if I could tell where he had been on the internet. He was pretty proud of having everything set up to clean his browser history, cache, cookies, etc. and he was using Firefox.

Well, long story short, in about 15 minutes I was able, via simple and a little bit more than simple (though just a little bit) means to tell him the various sites he visited. He was shocked, p***ed off, etc. I referred him to a true secure erasing type program such as above.

I've done the same with a guy at work who is using the new Windows 7. All those cache and cookie and history clearing buttons do is clear them for someone who would look in the most simple of ways - they do NOT securely clean the system.

Didn't know where to post this and not sure how to start a new topic so here goes. Thought it was interesting. Note that the "speaker" mentions "pain meds" but only Benzos are shown. He just "HAD" to get in that "pain med".

http://www.wmur.com/video/21544860/index.html

Thanks CG, I'm giving it a try. Anything helps.

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