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Cover Your Tracks

WARNING - Web pages you visit are automatically saved onto your computer in your history and cache file. If you do not want an abuser to discover that you have visited this site you can clear any record of your internet activities by following these easy steps:

Please remember that it is not always possible to completely cover your tracks... the safest way to access information online is at an internet cafe, on a friends computer, at work or at a library etc

Please select your browser:

It is possible that an abuser may be able to access your emails.
To help protect yourself please click on the following guidlines:

Internet Explorer

For Internet Explorer 6:

  • Take the following steps once you have left this site:
  • > Go to Tools menu, select Internet Options
  • > On General page, under Temporary Internet files, click on "Delete Files"
  • > Under History click on "Clear History"

For Older versions of Internet Explorer:

  • Take the following steps once you have left this site:
  • > Go to Tools (IE 5X) or View (IE 4X)& select Internet Options
  • > On General page, under Temporary Internet files, click on "Delete Files"
  • > Under History click on "Clear History"

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Netscape

  • Take the following steps once you have left this site:
  • > Go To Edit menu and select Preferences
  • > Click on Navigator, click on History and select "Clear History"
  • > Still in Preferences, Navigator, History; click on "Clear Location Bar" to clear the list of addresses automatically stored in the address bar
  • > Still in Preferences, click on Advanced then select Cache and click on "Clear Memory Cache" and "Clear Disk Cache"

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AOL

  • Take the following steps once you have left this site:
  • > Go to Members Menu and select Preferences
  • > Click on the WWW. icon
  • > Select Advanced, Purge Cache

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Email

An abuser may be able to access your email account and if this is the case they may be able to read all emails you send or receive. To help prevent anyone accessing your email account, use a password that would be hard for anyone to guess - one way of doing this is combining letters and numbers. If you receive threatening or harrassing emails from an abuser, it may be useful to save them as they may be used as evidence of abuse and also these emails may constitute an offence.

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