Question: I went to a porno site. Hey, I'm only human. But now it's in my Web browser and I want to get rid of it. Other people use the computer. Help!-Anonymous
Answer: This reader's request is a classic. I've seen this question asked dozens of different way. One user said he'd been to "interesting sites" another pleaded for help because his parents were away, but coming back soon.
Anyway, I'm here to help, not to judge, dear reader. On that note, here's how to rid your Web browser of any reference to the material you've viewed. Incidentally it can be used to rid a Web browser of any visited Web site. There are a couple of steps you need to take to clean house. First let's dump the images and site addresses.
Browsers such as Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer save images from visited Web sites on your hard drive whether you click on them or not so that next time you visit you won't have to re-download the image.
But this means that many megabytes of images of all types get saved to you hard drive. Put it this way, if you saw the image then it's on your hard drive.
They also log the address of the site in the browser's history log. To get rid of both, first, figure out which browser you are using.
To do this, start your web browser, the same one you used to visited the site. Click the "Help" menu at the top of your screen and then in the list that drops down click on "About" It may say "About Internet Explorer" or "About Netscape". Choose that option and the web browser's name and version will be displayed. Keep a note of it.
For Internet Explorer, version 4 through 5.5, click on the Tools menu and then click on the Internet Options item. A dialog box will popup. Click "Delete Files" to get rid of cached images. Normally these are either gif or jpg files (something like naughty.jpg or naughty.gif), but they could also be .png files as well, though these are relatively rare. To erase visited web addresses so that they don't appear in the address pulldown menu at the top of the browser, click the "Clear History" button.
For Netscape Navigator, version 6, click on the Edit menu and then click on the Preferences item. A dialog box will popup. Click the arrow next to "Navigator" in the box on the left so that it lists subtopics. Click on the subtopic called "History" then on the right click the "Clear History" button. Also click the "Clear Location Bar" button.
This will get rid of previously visited all web addresses as well as those concealed in the location pulldown menu at the top of the browser window. To get rid of cached images, select "Advanced" and then reveal the subtopics by clicking the arrow next to "Advanced".
Then click "Cache". On the left click both "Clear Memory Cache" to clear images from the current browser session. Click "Clear Disk Cache" to remove image as from the cache folder on the hard drive.
If you have an older browser, click here for further instructions.
Browsers also store visited web site addresses in the pulldown address bar. If switched on, the AutoComplete function will type out previously visited sites if you type the first few letters of the address. It's designed to save time, but if you have visited, lets say, "www.yummysexpots.com" and someone uses the computer after you and wants to go to Yahoo and they type in "www.y" the browser will auto-suggest www.yummysexpots.com, which you may not want.
To turn AutoComplete off in Internet Explorer 5 and later versions go to the Tools menu and choose "Internet Options". Then choose the "Content" tab from the dialog box that pops up and click the "AutoComplete" button and uncheck the Web Addresses box and click "Ok".
In Netscape 6, click the "Edit" menu and then "Preferences". Then select "Navigator" and click the arrow to the left until a list of sub-options appear. Then click "Smart Browsing" and uncheck "Enable Location Bar autocomplete". Then click "Ok". This cannot be turned off in earlier versions of Netscape Navigator.
Older versions of Web browsers don't have this feature built in.
Windows 95/98/Me/2000 users may also want to remove the reference to Web sites in the Documents menu off the Start menu. To do this right click with your mouse on a blank part of the Taskbar (grey strip along the bottom of the screen). Then click Properties. Next click either "Advanced" or the "Start Menu Programs" tab. Click the "Clear" button.
You should also clear your cookies.

1 comment:
just delete cookies, cache and history by goin to tools >>> internet options
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