| NSClean and IEClean: "The comprehensive solution" |
| Our NSClean and IEClean products are
NOT "shareware." They are professionally supported commercial products
from Privacy Software Corporation
(PSC) of Albany, NY. NSClean was the first product introduced to handle
cookies as well as other issues back in June of 1996.
NSClean is designed specifically for Netscape browsers while our IEClean is designed specifically for Microsoft Internet Explorer. While both programs provide similar functions they are completely different at the code level and designed specifically for their respective browsers. We will describe generically what our products do here as each product accomplishes its tasks in different ways for each browser. There are a number of shareware "Cookie handlers" out there that are extremely limited in what they do. If you've read our FTC filing, you will discover that cookies are a very small part of the overall privacy problem. If your software only erases cookie files, (a very simple task) you have very little protection against a number of privacy, security and system management issues. While NSClean and IEClean provide comprehensive cookie management, we also provide a number of other management capabilities not found in "shareware" programs: |
| Cookies: |
| Our NSClean32 product allows you to select which
cookies you wish to keep while discarding all others. Through our "NSTweak"
editor, you can hold onto useful cookies while dumping all others or you
can opt to just eradicate them all. In addition, you can use NSClean32
to lock out the receipt of any further cookies as well as turn cookie warnings
on and off. NSClean32 gives complete flexibility to controlling those cookies.
Our NSClean16 and IEClean16 products for Windows 3.x currently offer cookie removal as an all or none option. Our new IEClean32 4.01 product now provides the same editing and control options provided now in our NSClean32 4.10 version. As a result our 32 bit products allow you to keep those beneficial cookies while automatically removing the rest. By removing your cookies, you force remote sites to generate a new one. Cookies are like a serial number for your machine. Databases on some web sites *do* track your machine's travels with that serial number despite reports to the contrary. By obliterating your cookies, a new serial number is issued each time you go back and this foils "tracking." |
| Newsgroups data: |
| NSClean and IEClean allow you to selectively
wipe recordings of the usenet newsgroups you read and visit from your browser's
internal databases. All browsers list which newsgroups you visit and which
specific messages you've read. Many of the newer versions of both browsers
also record the SPECIFIC TEXT of the actual messages you read plus the binary
attachments if you've downloaded them or even just read them online.
By using NSClean for Netscape browsers or IEClean for Internet Explorer browsers, you can remove this information freeing up a large amount of disk space you may not have even been aware of going to waste, often in the tens of megabytes if you're an avid usenet news reader. |
| Your EMail: |
| Our NSClean32 4.10 and IEClean32 4.01 provides the ability to control your email which is similarly stored on your hard disk and uses precious amounts of space and could be possibly read by others. By default, NSClean32 and IEClean32 remove the contents of your "trash" folder ONLY if you desire. You also have the option of adding other mail folders to the automatic removal if you desire. |
| Provides "alias ID" to prevent "SPAM" |
| All of our products provide the ability to switch back
and forth between your real name and real email address and alias identities of
your choice. This ability allows you to use a "garbage" address on posts to
usenet newsgroups and email to foil "spam harvesters" from collecting a valid
email address to send junk email to.
Another benefit of this alias ID is that should a web site cause you to submit a form, sign a guestbook or download a "treat" to match up your cookie with your identity, they will be handed a false identity instead which further frustrates "tracking." Our alias features will help to keep you off any new spam lists when you use it with your browser. |
| History database |
| Your browser records every single link you follow,
every picture you see on every site and dutifully records your travels in a
history database. Each site, each link and each image are recorded by name
and written to your hard drive.
The history database is used by your browser so you can hit your back and forward buttons to move from site to site. Those of you who use the back and forth buttons also know that if you go back twice and select a new link, the travels of before are no longer accessible with the back and forward buttons yet all of the visits are still recorded in the history database. All of our products will purge this history database removing traces of where you've been as well as freeing up more valuable disk space. |
| Cache databases |
| While your history databases record every place you've
been on the web and everything you've seen, the actual web pages themselves as
well as all of the images, scripts and other items used during your forays are
recorded intact in the cache databases. Every picture from every page is also
stored here as well as multimedia data you received while on the web.
A tremendous amount of disk space (sometimes in the HUNDREDS of megs) is wasted storing all this data in case you might need it again at some point. By examining your history data as well as the files present in the cache area, your web visits can be precisely reconstructed right down to the exact pages you've browsed. Our products eliminate cache data and their database indexes and free up a lot of disk space for you if you want. |
| URL Window cleanup |
| Each browser has a URL window which allows you to pull
down a list of the last 10 to 20 sites you've visited. While convenient, the URL
window allows anyone else to take a fast look at what you've been up to and where
you've been lately. This information is kept by the browsers in the windows
registry or hidden away elsewhere in your system where it is difficult if not
impossible to get at to clean up.
Our products will clean up the listing so no one needs to know where you've been. While many people equate NSClean and IEClean with cookies, our first NSClean product was originally designed to clear this specific area for friends at their jobsite whose bosses had looked at where they had been and had questions of their employees as a result. The "cookie scare" came later. |
| Bookmarks/Favorites |
| Our products also give the option of removing the entire "bookmarks" or "favorites" listings for those who share machines. If you select to remove the bookmarks, they'll all be removed. If you want to keep your bookmarks, simply don't check the "Remove bookmarks" box. |
| Recent Documents |
| NSClean32 4.10 and IEClean32 4.01 also provide the option of cleaning out the list of recently viewed documents on your Start button in Windows95 or NT. Many people had requested this feature as part of our general cleanup and that is why this provided. IEClean32 also removes many other files generated by Internet Explorer that are not a concern for Netscape users. |
| The COMPREHENSIVE solution |
| Browser privacy is more than just cookies. Our products allow
you to selectively control which bits of information about your travels stay and
which ones are removed, all through a very easy to use and fast comprehensive
program that in typical use gives you "one button" cleaning of your system.
Even if you're not overly concerned with privacy and security, the ability
of our products to recover huge amounts of wasted hard disk space in a design
easy enough for executive users to run is a big plus for IS departments who
have concerns about client desktop disk space. Please have a look at the
NSClean or IEClean products appropriate to your computing environment, all
backed by friendly and free professional support now and in the future.
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