Expired Cookies Cleaner v1.02
Expired Cookies Cleaner is a free software for removing expired cookies from you personal computer (PC).
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17.3.2009 Microsoft Granted Patent for Tracking Cookies
A patent for Tracking usage behavior in computer systems was granted to Microsoft Tuesday after the software giant explained how it can use invisible images and 'small sized cookies' to surreptitiously track visitors on its own and others' web sites."
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4.5.2006 Vista UAC: 7 Steps to delete a shortcut
Here is a interesting submission, although I'd like to point out that Microsoft is changing this behavior in future builds. Here's what would of happened if it weren't for dedicated beta testers and our loud vocal concerns being heard.
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5.6.2006 Prevent 1.0 - Stop Unauthorized Copy, Delete, Move & Change of Settings
I am sure everyone has faced the situation where either their friends, colleagues, family member of kids renaming, deleting important files or changing settings like wallpaper, screen resolution etc. this is typical with younger sibling.
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17.9.2009 The Cleaner 5.0.0.120
The Cleaner v.5 is designed to keep your computer and data safe from Trojans, Worms, Keyloggers, Spyware and many other types of malware.
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1.9.2007 Wise Registry Cleaner 1.9
Wise Registry Cleaner is one of the safest Registry cleaning tools available in the market today.
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8.4.2007 Advanced Privacy Cleaner 1.1
Advanced Privacy Cleaner allows you to regain your computer's privacy with ease. This simple tool cleans your tracks with a single click. The program deletes only the types of tracks you select.
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13.10.2007 Wise Registry Cleaner 2.9.4
Wise Registry Cleaner is one of the safest Registry cleaning tools available in the market today.
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27.10.2007Google Cookies Expire Sooner, If You Stop Visiting
Google has thrown another bone
to critics of its privacy
practices, announcing it would
no longer set cookies to
expire in the year 2038. Now,
Google will set cookies to
expire two years after a user
last visits the site, with the
expiration date auto-renewing
to two years after each visit...
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17.07.2007Internet Explorer 7 Flush
History Feature
Microsoft Corp.'s forthcoming
Internet Explorer 7 browser
will have a thorough flush
feature that clears its
history and all associated
files stored after a Web site
is accessed.
The new "delete browsing
history" feature under the
"tools" menu will be able to
wipe out five major data
categories, including
temporary Internet files,
cookies, history, form data
and passwords, Enuha
wrote.
A user
can delete all of those at
once or can individually
choose which ones to wipe
through the "delete browsing
history" panel, Enuha
wrote.
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18.01.2006Gmail Gives Up, Adds Delete
Button
When it first launched in
2004, Google's Gmail was
missing a key feature
available in competing e-mail
services and clients: a
prominent delete button.
Although Gmail offered
deleting through a dropdown,
Google felt users should never
have to delete messages thanks
to expanded storage. But the
company has finally given in...
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20.01.2006EFF questions White House website's privacy policy
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a U.S nonprofit legal organization, has sent a letter to White House Counsel demanding the reason for
exempting third party cookies from WhiteHouse.gov's privacy policy. The White House website's privacy policy promises that the site will not
use long-term tracking cookies, which will otherwise allow federal agencies to track users visiting the site. However the embedded YouTube videos in
the site use persistent cookies to track the browsing habits of visitors. The privacy policy was modified to exempt YouTube cookies when this was
pointed out by Chris Soghoian, a cnet blogger.
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28.01.2009Google cookies to expire after two yearsas long as you don't return
The lifetime of Google's
cookies has been significantly
reduced as part of the
company's efforts to be more
sensitive to growing privacy
concerns. The company
announced today via the
Official Google Blog that it
has pared down the default
cookie duration from its site
from a whopping 31 years
(expiring in 2038) to two
years due to feedback from
users and privacy advocates.
Starting sometime
"in the coming months,"
Google's cookies will
automatically expire after two
years of nonuse, meaning that
any users that come to Google
once, use the search, and
never return will only have
their search preferences
stored on their computers for
the next two years.
Worry not: Google's
cookies do not store users'
search histories. What it does
store, however, are language
preferences, how many search
results per page they like,
and SafeSearch settings. But
privacy is privacy, and some
users are more sensitive to
any information being stored
than others. And for users who
never return, Google believes
there's no point in keeping
that information for 31 years.
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17.07.2007Editorial: Three ways to a cleaner, brighter Mac
The presupposition that Macs are the choice for the user who wants a hassle free, take it out of the box and get on with it experience is simply a
lie. This may very well be the experience Mac users get for a while, but soon enough the system (like every other computer) becomes a little sluggish,
and not as speedy as it was in its younger days. Increasingly, it is becoming apparent that if a user requires their Mac for anything other than
rudimentary tasks, it has to have a deep clean every now and again otherwise it will get a little sluggish.
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19.05.2009IE8 'Private Browsing' Confirmed
Microsoft officials have confirmed that the company
will, indeed, provide private browsing, a k a "porn mode," as of Internet Explorer (IE) 8 Beta 2.
IE 8 Beta 2 is expected to go
to testers later this week. With its private browsing feature, called "InPrivate," Microsoft is allowing users to cover their
online tracks. But Microsoft is taking this functionality to a more granular level than some expected. With IE 8 Beta 2, Microsoft also is enabling
users to delete selected cookies not simply all of them. That way, when deleting evidence of which sites s/he visited, a user has the option of
keeping the cookies of her/his favorite sites but removing certain others.
InPrivate Blocking informs you about content
that is in a position to observe your browsing history, and allows you to block it.
InPrivate Subscriptions allow you to
augment the capability of InPrivate Blocking by subscribing to lists of websites to block or allow.
Microsoft officials have said IE 8
Beta 2 will be more focused on consumers, as opposed to developers (who were the target of IE 8 Beta 1). The
final version of IE 8 is expected to roll out in November 2008.
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26.08.2008Facebook: please don't delete your account
After recent news of Facebook updating their Terms of Use to make all content posted on the web site theirs, and a follow up of removing the updated
Terms of Use, and reverting back to the original put a lot of Facebook users contemplating deleting their Facebook account. Facebook has updated
their site with a caution warning and apology about the recent change of Terms of Use when attempting to deactivate or delete your account. The
message reads: Are you deleting because you are concerned about Facebook's Terms of Service? This was a mistake that we have now corrected. You
own the information you put on Facebook and you control what happens to it.
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20.02.2009How to Delete a Windows Service in Vista or XP
If you are a fan of tweaking your system and disabling services, you might find that over time your Windows Services list becomes huge and unwieldy
with a large number of services in the list that will never be enabled.
Instead of just disabling a service, you can
alternatively completely delete the service. This technique can be especially helpful if you've installed some piece of software that doesn't
uninstall correctly, and leaves an item in the service list.
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26.09.2008Point and click Gmail hacking at Black Hat
Ive just received an email
that says I like sheep, but
it wasnt sent by my friend
it was sent by a hacker posing
as my friend. At the Black
Hat security convention,
Robert Graham, the CEO of
errata security, surprised
attendees by hijacking a Gmail
session on camera and reading
the victims email. He went
even further by demonstrating
the attack to us in person and
was able to take over another
journalists Gmail account and
send us sheep-loving
emails.
The attack is actually
quite simple. First Graham
needs to be able to sniff data
packets and in our case the
open Wi-Fi network at the
convention fulfilled that
requirement. He then ran
Ferret to copy all the cookies
flying through the air.
Finally, Graham cloned those
cookies into his browser in
easy point-and-click fashion -
with a home-grown tool called
Hamster.
The attack can hijack
sessions in almost any
cookie-based web application
and Graham has tested it
successfully against popular
webmail programs like Googles
Gmail, Microsofts Hotmail and
Yahoo Mail. He stressed that
since the program just uses
cookies, he only needs an IP
address and usernames and
passwords arent required...
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03.08.2007After Lawsuits, Company Pulls
Spyware Cleaner
Secure Computer says the
product will not be available
until its problems are
resolved...
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27.01.2006Cleaner, Faster: First impressions of "Windows Live 2008"
Well it's taken a while to get here, but it looks like Windows Live is becoming a better defined and somewhat unified set of services. Of course
there's still a lot of work left to do, but today's debut of the Windows Live Suite and unified installer is definitely a big step in the right
direction. So lets jump right in...
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06.09.2007Eusing Free Registry Cleaner 1.25 Final
Eusing Free Registry Cleaner
is a free registry repair
software that allows you to
safely clean and repair
registry problems with a few
simple mouse clicks. Problems
with the Windows Registry are
a common cause of Windows
crashes and error messages.
Registry problems can occur
for many reasons, including
references left behind after
uninstall; incorrect removal
of software; missing or
corrupt hardware drivers; or
orphaned start-up programs.
Eusing Free Registry Cleaner
will scans your Windows
registry for invalid or
obsolete information and
provide a list of the errors
found. After fixing the
invalid entries, your system
will be more stable and run
faster. For maximum safety,
Eusing Free Registry Cleaner
will make a backup of the
repaired entries. You will be
able to restore any changes
made using the software by
choosing Restore registry
backup. It is strongly
recommended to
back up your
data before using
Eusing Free Registry Cleaner
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Changelog:
* Add checking for
update.
* Show the
problem count after scanning
every item.
* Change
donation agent.
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25.12.2006Facebook users unite in outrage over changed layout
Some don't like it when others clean out their houses while they're gone on vacation, and a few might hate it when someone else cleans up .
Facebook is now cleaner, brighter, and whiter, and tens of thousands are unhappy...
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13.08.2008Vista UAC: 7 Steps to Delete a
Shortcut
Here is a interesting
submission, although I'd like
to point out that Microsoft is
changing this behavior in
future builds. Here's what
would of happened if it
weren't for dedicated beta
testers and our loud vocal
concerns being heard.
Microsoft Windows
Vista's User Account Control
(UAC) is currently set up in
such a way as to take up to
seven steps to delete a
shortcut from the
desktop.
This
may change when the product
eventually ships, but for
those who are not able to test
Vista as yet, an interesting
series of images details the
process of deleting a shortcut
from the desktop.
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05.06.2006Greener Apple: New Macs, iPods aim for efficiency, cleaner environment
Once a target of environmental activists, Apple has been making a turnaround, putting a big push lately on the greener aspects of its products.
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07.03.2009Jeeves Retires as Ask.com
Rebrands
Ask Jeeves said Monday it was
relaunching as ask.com,
complete with a new
understated design, tools,
Web-based desktop search, and
a cleaner and less
advertising-laden result page.
Noticeably missing is Jeeves,
the familiar butler that has
been associated with the site
for the past decade...
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27.02.2006Could Google Gears Make 'Cookies' Obsolete?
In what appears to be a
serious and genuine attempt to
take the lead in the growing
AJAX market, Google may be
trying to invent something
that has already been invented
before, perhaps several times:
a way to implement a local
data store for Web-based and
remote applications run
through the browser. But
because it's Google that's
doing it, the results this
time around might be
different...
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01.06.2007Pressure-sensitive keyboard, new Microsoft Hardware prototype
Microsoft's hardware group this morning unveiled a prototype of a pressure-sensitive keyboard that can detect precisely how hard each key is being
pressed.
The company describes the potential uses as "limitless," saying it has tested concepts including pressing a letter
harder to get a capital letter or a larger font size, or hitting the delete key harder or softer depending on whether the user wants to delete one
character or an entire word.
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07.08.2009Europeans warn search engines: Delete user data sooner
A European Commission advisory body has suggested that search companies delete data collected about their users after six months -- a far cry from
what most companies currently do. The recommendation arrived in a 29-page "opinion" (PDF) published Friday by a European Commission body known as
the Article 29 Working Party. Backed by privacy groups, it has been pressuring Internet companies on the search data front for months. The report
focused on advertising-supported search engines, as opposed to search functions embedded in Web sites.
The Working Party's suggestions
don't officially have the force of law yet, but they are expected to be adopted by the EC. The EC already adopted a broader set of data protection
laws a decade ago, but this report was meant to address specifically how search engines, including those headquartered outside its borders, fit into
that setup.
Privacy in search engines is critical because "an individual's search history contains a footprint of that person's
interests, relations, and intentions," which can then be mined by businesses and national security operatives alike, the working party wrote.
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