If you are NOT routinely deleting cookies, clearing history, and clearing cache from your internet browsers, then you should be. Never enter a "sex" site without having previously wiped your history/cookies clean. Through the use of cookies, these types of sites can pull data from your computer and see exactly where you have already been. Since a cookie stored on your computer allows you to access your Yahoo mail, for example, some sites use this data to track and ultimately determine who you are.

We will be exploring in the upcoming weeks how to clear buffers, which browsers are safer, internet privacy wise, and how to protect yourself. We are also working on a file and steps for those of you plagued with the "I can't clear my Netscape NAV bar" problem. For you Internet Explorer users, Netscape (at least a few older versions) has the feature of keeping those "hot hunk", "military boot camp", and "hot prison guards" site address nicely displayed at the top of the Netscape screen. Unfortunately, these little history marks are not easily deleted and can cause great embarrassment.

One of the best sites that I have seen on internet privacy is, www.privacy.net . Access them and run a few of their free tests. They are a site concerned with your internet privacy and well worth a visit to educate you on what web pages do to learn who you are and how they do it.