Hide Your Tracks
Safety Notice
If you are worried that someone else can find out about the websites you have visited then read the following steps below.
IMPORTANT
Please note that the information below may not completely hide your tracks. If at all possible try and use a computer at a friend's house, at work or using a computer at your local library.
Deleting Cookies, Files and Internet History
The details below will explain how to delete all of your history, however this may arouse suspicion as all of the history will be deleted. Further down below are some screen shots that will show you how to delete the individual history pages. For example just delete the entry for SODA.
Internet Explorer 6.0
- Click the Tools drop down menu and select Internet Options
- On the General tab under Temporary Internet Files:
- Click Delete Cookies
- Click Delete Files
- Under History click Delete History
- On the Content tab under Personal Information click AutoComplete
- Click Clear Forms and then click OK
- Click OK again to close Internet Options and save your changes
Internet Explorer 7.0
- Click Tools drop down menu and select Internet Options
- Under Browsing History click Delete
- Delete browsing history by clicking each delete button as required or click the Delete All button
- Click Close and then Click OK to confirm the deletion
Alternatively
- Click the Tools drop down menu and select Delete Browsing History
- Click each delete button in turn as required or click Delete All
- Click Close to confirm
Mozilla Firefox / Netscape
- Click the Tools drop down menu and select Options
- Click on the Privacy option
- Under Private Data click Clear Now
- Place a tick in all the options available and click Clear Private Data Now
- Click OK to confirm
Alternatively select ctrl+shift+delete on your keyboard, tick all the items available and click Clear Private Data Now.
Opera
- Click the Tools drop down menu and select Preferences
- Click the Advanced tab and select History on the left hand menu
- Click the Clear and Empty Now buttons
- Select Cookies from the left hand menu
- Click Manage cookies
- Select any entries on the list you want to delete and click Delete
- Click Close when you have finished deleting all the entries you want to
- Click OK to close Preferences
Delete single page history Internet Explorer 7.0 (IE7)
To remove the single page history you will need to click on the favourites tab and then on the history tab in IE7. Expand the history until you find the website history you want to delete and then right click on that page to delete (see image below).
NOTE: Remember to click back on the favourite’sbutton to turn it back to normal, unless the history tab was already being displayed.
Delete single page history Internet Explorer 6 (IE6)
If you are using IE6 then click on the history icon indicated in the image below. This will display the history of the pages visited. Expand the history until you find the website history you want to delete and then right click on that page to delete. As above remember to close the history side panel by clicking on the history icon in the toolbar or on the X button in the history side panel.
Delete single page history FireFox
In FireFox click on the history menu link at the top of the browser and then Show All History. See Below.
A pop box will appear (see image below) right click on the website you want to delete and then select the delete option.
