User Guide

Privacy Features
36 Internet Guard Dog
What Web Trail Cleaner does
As you surf the Internet, your browser stores information that makes your
browsing experience more satisfying. It uses the information as follows:
The files left on your PC can be viewed by others and depending on your
browser’s settings, can take up many megabytes of disk space.
If you accepted Internet Guard Dog’s recommendation during the interview,
Internet Guard Dog displays the Web Trail Cleaner alert message when you
close your browser.
Responding to the Web Trail Cleaner alert message
You can respond to the alert message in the following ways.
By default, Internet Guard Dog selects t he sitesthat are notbookmarked (that
is, part ofyour listof favoritesites)because itis less likelythat you’llreturnto
these sites. If you don’t return to a site, the cached files for the site are never
used again—they just sit and take up disk space until they are ultimately
deleted by your browser.
If you later want to delete the files that you’ve left behind, run the Internet
Guard Dog Security Check.
Table 4-5.
Your browser uses To
Cached files Speed up the displayof Web page elements such
as graphics.
URLs visited Display a list of sites that you’ve visited using
Web addresses.
History Display a list of sites that you’ve visited using
Web site names.
Table 4-6.
If you choose Internet Guard Dog
Clean Deletes all of the cached files, history and URL
information associated with the selected Web
site (Domain).
Select a site for cleaning by selecting the check
box next to the site name.
Don’t clean Closes the Alert message and continues closing
your browser.