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I use Internet Explorer as my web access for my business. We are in
sales and we all work on commisions here based on the leads we
generate. So privacy is very important. Computer access is shared
among employees. My search procedure is that I usually just go to
google or dogpile and type in the word of the site I'm looking for and
when I'm shown a list I click on it and it takes me there. There is
never a record of the visit stored on Google so I always felt that
this is a secure way to search. However, I just noticed that most
computers keeps a running memory of which sites have been visited in
the address bar. I noticed this quite by accident when attempting to
type an address in the address bar and as soon as I typed so much as
www, a list of things came up. Further, if I type www.s for instance
every site beginning with s that has been visited comes up. I've gone
into Internet options and deleted cookies and offline content. The
addresses remained until I cleared history. However that clears
everything else as well. What I am asking is this. If I go to a
computer that has an existing history on it and I visit a site, can I
make it so that there is no record of my visit yet retain all the
existing sites in the computer's history? This is very important to
me as the security of my job may depend on it. Thanks, John.
 
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Smitty Two

Jan 1, 1970
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Claude Hopper (11) 5. ? said:
It's unfortunate that most browsers are 'all or nothing' when it comes
to saving or removing cookies, history and stuff. We need a 'suspend'
saving cookies and history and stuff.

Yeah, it's called "private browsing" in Safari. Still using a PC? That's
all right, Apple makes a version of Safari for PC's, too, and it's twice
as fast as IE, and better looking, of course. Download it free at the
Apple website.
 
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bz

Jan 1, 1970
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I use Internet Explorer as my web access for my business. We are in
sales and we all work on commisions here based on the leads we
generate. So privacy is very important. Computer access is shared
among employees. My search procedure is that I usually just go to
google or dogpile and type in the word of the site I'm looking for and
when I'm shown a list I click on it and it takes me there. There is
never a record of the visit stored on Google so I always felt that
this is a secure way to search. However, I just noticed that most
computers keeps a running memory of which sites have been visited in
the address bar. I noticed this quite by accident when attempting to
type an address in the address bar and as soon as I typed so much as
www, a list of things came up. Further, if I type www.s for instance
every site beginning with s that has been visited comes up. I've gone
into Internet options and deleted cookies and offline content. The
addresses remained until I cleared history. However that clears
everything else as well. What I am asking is this. If I go to a
computer that has an existing history on it and I visit a site, can I
make it so that there is no record of my visit yet retain all the
existing sites in the computer's history? This is very important to
me as the security of my job may depend on it. Thanks, John.

The history is usually maintained on a 'per user' basis.
If each user logs in with a separate userid and password, your history (and
settings) should be separate from other users.
Just be sure you log in as a different user and clearing your history
should have no effect on the 'main owner' of the system.

It may be worthwhile to set up a domain controller and assign each user an
id on the domain, allowing domain users to log into any machine.
All user information can even be stored on the domain controller.

It sounds like you need for someone to come in and set up your network for
you so that various options and hazards are properly weighed.

Your company also needs to be aware of legal liabilities associated with
storing and sharing clients data.

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bz 73 de N5BZ k

please pardon my infinite ignorance, the set-of-things-I-do-not-know is an
infinite set.

[email protected] remove ch100-5 to avoid spam trap
 
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PeterD

Jan 1, 1970
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I use Internet Explorer as my web access for my business. We are in
sales and we all work on commisions here based on the leads we
generate. So privacy is very important. Computer access is shared
among employees. My search procedure is that I usually just go to
google or dogpile and type in the word of the site I'm looking for and
when I'm shown a list I click on it and it takes me there. There is
never a record of the visit stored on Google so I always felt that
this is a secure way to search. However, I just noticed that most
computers keeps a running memory of which sites have been visited in
the address bar. I noticed this quite by accident when attempting to
type an address in the address bar and as soon as I typed so much as
www, a list of things came up. Further, if I type www.s for instance
every site beginning with s that has been visited comes up. I've gone
into Internet options and deleted cookies and offline content. The
addresses remained until I cleared history. However that clears
everything else as well. What I am asking is this. If I go to a
computer that has an existing history on it and I visit a site, can I
make it so that there is no record of my visit yet retain all the
existing sites in the computer's history? This is very important to
me as the security of my job may depend on it. Thanks, John.


It is very difficult to erase completely visits to the porn sites you
are visiting...
 
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James Sweet

Jan 1, 1970
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Claude said:
It's unfortunate that most browsers are 'all or nothing' when it comes
to saving or removing cookies, history and stuff. We need a 'suspend'
saving cookies and history and stuff.


Can't you install Firefox on a USB thumb drive and run it from there
with your own settings and history?
 
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Smitty Two

Jan 1, 1970
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JANA said:
In our company we had a user that was doing excessive porn browsing.

Is there a certain level of porn browsing that's acceptable, then? Say,
less than 3 hours per day on company time is OK, but no more than that?
 
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James Sweet

Jan 1, 1970
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JANA said:
Most corporations do not allow users to install any unauthorized software on
to their computers. The users normally have a very basic access with no
rights to be allowed to install any kind of software. They must call IT
support for installations and modifications.


I've never worked anywhere like that, we've always had full admin access
over our own PC's, but perhaps things are different outside the tech
industry.
 
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