Using Internet Sweeper Pro

Eraser Setting

There are 4 tabs on Eraser Settings screen:  Browsers, Windows, Applications , and Custom Items.

Browsers 

Choose which browsers items to be erased, Internet Sweeper Pro can erase the history tracks of Internet Explorer, Netscape , AOL , MSN , Opera, other browsers are supported by using plugins.

• Location Bar History The website you typed, you can click Options to select which one you want to keep
  

• Cookies Web sites send small text files to your browser to keep track of your on-line sessions. They are particularly useful when you want a Web site to auto-sign you into a registration process. However web sites also use cookies to track you through the site. With Internet Sweeper Pro , you can select which cookies you want to erase and which one you want to keep.
  

• Cache (Temporary Internet Files) Browser saves web pages, images from visited Web sites into your hard drive whether you click on them or not, so that next time when you visit you won't have to re-download the image. But this means that many megabytes of data of all types get saved to you hard drive. Anyone who can use your computer can tell where you have been browsing on the web
  

• Internet History  Which keeps an index of the visited web pages
  

• Autocomplete Memory Which stores a record of almost everything that you typed into any web site form. Form data can be things such as all the keywords you have ever typed into a search engine or personal information such as your name and address
  

• IE Plugins The Browser Plug-Ins use to provide some functions that the browser can not provide, for example, some  chat room and games may use plug-ins to accomplish special functions
  

• Index.dat Which stores information about what web sites you have visited and what cookies have been saved, the index.dat files are always locked by system and can not be deleted. Internet Sweeper Pro overwrite these index.dat files with random data, others can see nothing useful form these files after erasing.
  

• Netscape Settings Internet Sweeper Pro supports all versions of Netscape, for Netscape lower than 6.0 , if you changed the default directory setting, you should click on the Netscape Directory button to select the directory you installed Netscape to.
  
  

Windows  

Choose which Windows items to be erased

• Recent Document lists the last 15 document files that you have accessed, allowing any of these documents to be reopened simply by clicking on the name of the document.
  

• Start Menu Search History Windows saves the files, text or computers you have ever searched  
  

• Start Menu Start History Windows stores the programs you have ever run in the start menu run text box
  

• Windows Temp Folder Windows and most of the applications saves their temp files to this folder, it will take a large amount of disk space if you don't clean it regularly.
  

• Open/Save Dialog Box History Windows records the filenames that you opened and saved in the system registry
  
  

Application 

Select , download , import the free plugins of Internet Sweeper Pro. with plugins, you can erase the tracks of many popular applications/programs, now , up to 50 plugins are available for downloading, such as Office, Mediaplayer, Realplayer, Acrobat, Winzip, ICQ, etc.

• Refresh After you copy a plugin file form the plugin folder of Track Eraser Pro, click this to show it on the plugin list
  

• Delete Delete the plugin, this will delete the plugin file, if you want to use it again, please download and import again.
  

• Plugin Info Show the plugin information, such as what the plugin will erase or update.
  

• Import Plugin Import the plugin after downloading, click this will show a dialog box lets you to find the plugin file you have downloaded, click OK will import the plugin to the Application Plugin List 
  

• Download Plugin Click this will launch your browser and link to the plugin download page of our website, you can choose the plugin you need for downloading.
  
  Click here to download Plugin Page 
  
  It's recommended that you often check this plugins page, because we are adding plugins for all kinds of applications/programs nearly every week.
  
  If you have a application we do not support now, please tell us at support@LadyBugSoft.com , we will try to support soon.
  
  Also, we provide a free Internet Sweeper Pro Plugin Maker to make the plugin yourself, if you are an advanced user and  know much about the program you want to erase. 
  
  
  If you make a plugin and want to share it with others, please email your plugin to us
  We will list it on our website and let others to download.
  
   

Custom Items 

Custom Items allows you to add, edit the Custom Item , with which you can erase file(s), folder or registry entry(s) that you want to erase.

• Refresh Click this if you have copied the Custom Item file into the Custom Item Folder 
  

• Add Adds the Custom Item
  

• Edit Click the Custom Item on Custom Items List and click this button to edit the Custom Item, the way of editing is the same as adding. 
  

• Delete Delete the Custom Item, this will delete the Custom Item file.
  

• Info Show the information of Custom Item

IMPORTANT: You must be an advanced user and KNOW much about what you are going to erase, if you erase the files or registry entries which needed by other programs or Windows, the programs or Windows may be damaged.

Options  

General

• Load Internet Sweeper Pro When Windows Startup  Checking this will let Internet Sweeper Pro load automatically every time when Windows startup, after it starts, you can see a Internet Sweeper Pro icon on the system tray, click the icon will show the Internet Sweeper Pro screen. 
  

• Run In Stealth Mode If this is checked, Internet Sweeper Pro will operate in an invisible mode, this will not show an icon on the system tray . In Stealth Mode, it can run Auto-erasing in the background quietly. You can press ALT+A to show/hide Internet Sweeper Pro.
  

• Enable Boss Key If this is checked, you can press ALT+SPACE to hide/unhide the browsers, you can hide the browser windows when your boss( or anyone else you don't want to see your screen) comes in.
  

• Log Options Select how to Clear Log file.

Schedule

You can schedule your erasing by the events like

• Windows Startup  Check this will run erasing every times Windows startup
  

• Windows Shutdown If this is checked, once it detects that the Windows is shutting down, it will run erasing.  
  

• Browser Shutdown If this is checked, once it detects that the browser shutdowns, it will run erasing

You can also schedule your erasing by the Interval you set, you can select to run erasing every 15 minutes,30 minutes, 1 hour ,8 hour ,daily, weekly and monthly . 

•  Play a sound when an erase is completed in Stealth Mode if checked, it will play a sound when erase is completed in Stealth Mode, you can select the sound file.
  
  

Security

• Enable Secure Erasing Check this will enable Internet Sweeper Pro to erase the tracks by overwriting the file(s) a specified number of times (you choose)with blank character , which can prevent others form recovering or undeleting  your files using recovery/undelete tools.
  

• Overwrite Files Set the times that overwrite the file.

Note: The more times you set to overwrite the file, the more time it will take to erase the tracks. Usually, the default 3 times is enough.

Internet Sweeper Pro implements the Department of Defense clearing and sanitizing standard DOD 5220.22-M, which gives you confidence that once deleted with Internet Sweeper Pro, your file data is gone forever and can not be recovered. 

Homepage Protection

• Prevent Home Page From Being Changed By Website Checking this feature will enable Internet Sweeper Pro to monitor your homepage settings. If another web site attempts to change your homepage, it will prompt you first to agree/disagree to the change.
  

• Reset Homepage You can use this to reset the homepage to what you want.
  

• Reset Window You can use this to reset the IE Window Title to what you want. 
  

Notes: Some malicious websites change your default browser homepage, or set your browser to automatically open their website on reboot. You can use this feature to avoid this from happening.