If you don't leave tracks on the Web it's less likely to get hacked. Hide really well and you will have less problems. I've seen theese things before with several firewalls, it's called the "They can't harm me if they don't know I'm here" principle (isn't that a mouth full?). So as you may know, a lot of applications leave traces behind and it is easy to tell what one user has been doing on the Net, if you can find these records.

It is just like hunting, to get to the prey, you need to follow its tracks. Hackers act much in the same way sometimes, that's why more and more security software is deployed to increase cyber-defense. So, anti-viruses, firewalls and anti-spyware programs just don't cut it any more. Great software is on the market.

As I've seen on DetNews, a certain firm, called Webroot has produced a certain program called "Window Washer", that simply cleans up fragments of files left behind on hard drives, aiming to protect a user's online privacy. It's not something new as a concept, as security giants McAfee and Symantec already have similar tools, but they are not very popular on the market. I don't know why, because they are pretty useful, but I think this is going to change, since ID theft is beginning to be a more serious issue these days.

You think that if you delete files from your computer, even from the Recycle Bin, they are gone? Wrong, they're still somewhere and can be retrieved, but with Window Washer this problem just goes away - this software is deleting files permanently and securely from your PC, as DetNews informs. Some people simply do risky stuff on their computers, so if a hacker would get a hold of some info, their machines could get compromised, that's when using Webroot's software becomes useful - no one will ever follow your tracks!