To clear your history in Internet Explorer and check for Spy / Ad ware.

It may not be possible to remove all of your surfing, e-mail and chat history from your computer. Be especiall wary if
your partner is technically savy. For complete safety we suggest that you use a land line phone (not cellular or an
wireless home phone). E-mail is not a secure form of communication either. Sniffer programs can retreave any
e-mail with a certain subject line or context. As of January 2005 all phones will have GPRS (GPS) service. With GPS
your phone and you can be traced within a couple of yards. We recommend pre-paid cell phones that do not attach a name with the user. GPS can be tracked with simple downloadable software.

I recommend a program call Spy Bot search and destroy. You can find it at www.downloads.com. Reason is
that unless you are highly technical you may not know if your PC is infected with spy ware. Your partner may
see EVERYTHING you do AS you do it via e-mail. Many spy program track everything and send e-mail reports
every 15 minutes or so. This is why it may be best to use a public (Library) computer to view information about
or for victims of domestic violence.

An excellent site for more information on this topic can be found by clicking here.

For Internet Explorer 5 and above, you can follow these directions to clear out temporary files and delete cookies.

1) Open Internet Explorer and click on Tools
2) Click on Internet Options
3) On the General Tab, in the middle of the screen, click on Delete Files
4) You may also want to check the box "Delete all offline content"
5) Click on OK and wait for the hourglass icon to stop after it deletes the temporary internet files
6) You can now click on Delete Cookies and click OK to delete cookies that websites have placed on y ur hard drive.

To clear the Internet History in IE:

1) Open Internet Explorer and click on Tools
2) Click on Internet Options
3) On the General Tab, in the middle of the screen, click on Clear History
4) Click OK

To clean up other temporary files on your computer in Windows 98 or higher:

1) Click Start, Programs (or All Programs), Accessories, System Tools, Disk Cleanup
2) Choose the correct drive usually C:\
3) Check the boxes in the list and delete the files

You may also right click on the IE icon on the desktop or start menu and left click on properties. This will bring up the
menu to delete files, cookies and history. I also recommend deleting the index.dat file. You will find this usually in the
C:\Documents and Settings\***Your User Name***\Cookies Directory. Better yet hit the F3 key and search for
index.dat in c:\ and include subfolders.

In Netscape Browser or Mozilla and Firefox

Firefox
click on options in the top tool bar. Click options again and a applet box will pop up. Click the privacy icon and at the bottom of the page click clear all. Click ok and your done.

Netscape

To clean up the Internet cache and history in Netscape, you will need to open up Netscape.
In Netscape, go to the Edit menu and go down to Preferences... as shown in the picture below.

After you click on Preferences..., a new window will pop up. It should look like the one below.

In this window, you will have the option to change Netscape settings. You can change your home page, and clear the cache, history and even the location bar.

After you click Clear History, a pop up message will show up asking you if you want to delete the history. Click OK to delete the history.

After the history is cleaned, you can choose the Location Bar History under the Preferences menu. Click on Clear Location Bar.

After you click Clear Location Bar, a pop up message will show up asking you if you want to delete the Location Bar History. Click OK to delete the history

To get to the Netscape cache, you will need to click on the [+] beside Advanced, on the left side of the window. This will give you more options to choose from. Click on Cache. It will show all of the options for your internet cache. You will be able to set its size, clean it, and change its location and how often the documents are cached. The windows should look like the one below.

Click on the Clear Memory Cache button. This will clear all of the memory that Netscape uses for cache. Click OK to empty the cache.

Click on the Clear Disk Cache button. This will clean all of the Netscape cache files. Click OK to empty the cache.