Windows Open (Save, Save As...) window
All information about access to application files (Word, Excel, etc.) and folders
are stored as links in the D:\Documents and Settings\<user name>\Recent
folder. Even if a file was deleted, it is referenced from the Recent folder. The link
contains the file and folder name, plus the creation and modification date. To
maintain confidentiality of your PC activity, the opened/saved files history must
be cleaned whether a file or folder was deleted or not.
Performing the PC clean-up, Acronis Privacy Expert Suite will destroy the
opened/saved file history according to the provided «Files» value.
4.2
Internet components
Today, most PC security threats come from the Internet. These were briefly
listed in the introduction as well as in the system sections or components that
keep traces of local user PC and Internet activity. Browser, cache, cookies,
Internet history and last visited pages list are kept in different places/files on
your hard disk drive.
Acronis Privacy Expert Suite supports and automatically determines files used
and/or generated by the following browsers:
•
Internet Explorer
•
Netscape v.4x, 6x, 7x
•
Mozilla
4.2.1
Internet Cache
Internet cache clean-up deletes files downloaded during browsing of Internet
pages.
As you surf the Internet, your browser keeps («caches») the content of pages
you visited in a special folder on a hard disk. This Internet cache folder contains
Web pages (HTML files), including text and graphics (in JPEG and GIF graphic
files). Page caching speeds up Internet access and viewing. If you want to return
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