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Post by Sandman on Oct 12, 2017 22:16:24 GMT
I was here and a few other sites the other day. And I was doing some business with my bank online. When I was done I thought I better delete my banking transactions. So I went to History and clicked on it. Where it said clear all history I clicked on it. I thought good that was easy. Then I wanted to see if Wat-Mart had any bikes on clearance. When I started typing www.walmart in a new tab it showed all my banking and everything else I had gone to. So my question is how can I delete it all? Thanks for any help.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2017 12:02:55 GMT
I don't use Firefox anymore 'cause I moved over to Google Chrome last year but I remember there was a 'Clear Your Recent History' button under History on the menu bar. If you haven't got the menu bar activated press the right hand button on your mouse up the top and click on it to enable it. I hope that helps. 
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Post by Ass_E9 on Oct 15, 2017 20:29:38 GMT
It could be that some of the sites that still show up as you are typing are those you may have bookmarked. Or search suggestions.
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Post by mslo79 on Nov 25, 2017 1:05:33 GMT
NOTE: if you ever get rid of your computer or want to make sure no one can recover any data on your computers hard drive, assuming it has a regular hard drive in it, run DBAN (which is free software) on it which you can get here... dban.org/it's runs from bootable USB device or CD/DVD media and then permanently deletes ALL data that has ever been on your PC's hard drive as after you run that there is basically no chance someone can recover any data on your hard drive. depending on how large your hard drive is that can take a hours to complete. WARNING: BE CAREFUL WHEN USING DBAN!!! ; as if you type 'autonuke' when it loads up it will delete ALL data on any hard drives etc connected to your PC when it's ran! ; the autonuke mode is easiest way to use DBAN but you can manually select the drives to wipe. with that said... you should be able to do a basic clearing of your browsers data by clearing Cache and clearing the previously visited websites in your browsers options. i am using Pale Moon x64 but it should be similar to Firefox. even outside of DBAN... you could clear your browsers cache etc, like i was saying, and then simply use something like Eraser (i.e. eraser.heidi.ie/ ) to wipe the FREE SPACE on your computer (depending on how large your hard drive is this could take hours). but even outside of wiping the free space... Eraser is even nice if you need to delete certain files to make sure no one else can recover them. because normally when you delete a file in Windows the normal way (i.e. delete file and then empty the recycle bin) the file is not actually deleted as the OS(Windows etc) simply allows that free space to be written to in the future if needed as the file could still be there. but if you erase a file with Eraser it actually overwrites the entire section of the hard drive where the file your erasing is stored. just to be sure... i adjust things in Eraser's options and switch 'default erasure method' (along with drive erasure method) is 'Pseudorandom Data (1 pass)' as that should be secure enough. but all-in-all given your situation... just visiting a bank site through your browser i would not really worry about this stuff and just use your computer normally. just be cautious on what programs you run on your computer as the best defense is not getting infected with a virus etc in the first place as if you keep that off of your computer chances are your banking info is not going to get stolen etc. also, just sign out of your banking stuff when done as even if you see your banking links when you type in the browser you ain't got to worry as if you sign out people physically using your computer will have to sign back in should they attempt to visit any of the banking sites you been to.
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Post by Utpe on Nov 25, 2017 2:21:03 GMT
Thanks for the link.
I recently started having problems with my secondary Western Digital 4TB hard drive. A few of the sectors went bad, so I had to submit an Advanced RMA on their website in order to replace it since it's still underneath the 5-year warranty. I have a bunch of personal information on it, and I don't think a simple format would have sufficed seeing as how they have tools for data recovery.
I just have to remind myself to disconnect my main drive before I nuke the other one. Hopefully it does the trick.
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Post by mslo79 on Nov 26, 2017 1:37:45 GMT
Thanks for the link. I recently started having problems with my secondary Western Digital 4TB hard drive. A few of the sectors went bad, so I had to submit an Advanced RMA on their website in order to replace it since it's still underneath the 5-year warranty. I have a bunch of personal information on it, and I don't think a simple format would have sufficed seeing as how they have tools for data recovery. I just have to remind myself to disconnect my main drive before I nuke the other one. Hopefully it does the trick. basically... -quick format (which only takes seconds) = does not truly erase data (people like this simply because it's quick) -full format (takes hours) = overwrites the drive with 0's from what i have heard on more recent versions of Windows and checks the drive for bad blocks etc. so if that's true... that should give you some level of security. basically when you get a new hard drive it's always a good idea to do a full format before using it. i think it took about 6 hours to full format my 5TB drive. but with DBAN you can be pretty damn sure the data will never be recovered. also, you must have gotten more of a premium drive for a 5 year warranty as normally hard drive warranties are typically 2-3 years. I bought a HGST 5TB not all that long ago because according to backblaze, HGST hard drives have the lowest failure rates... gigaom.com/2015/01/21/hgst-still-makes-most-reliable-hard-drives-says-backblaze/ ; but i noticed with HGST drives you tend to pay a $ premium for them. also, i would check your SATA cable to make sure that's working (sometimes these can go bad and make you think your drive etc is failing) as a while ago a SATA cabled failed which i initially though my PCI-E controller card was going bad but it was simply a faulty SATA cable as once i changed both SATA cables connected to it(it's more likely only one was bad but i did not want to spend the time messing with it and just replaced both as they are cheap enough(i bought 15-16 SATA cables for $12 on Ebay recently)), everything works perfect ever since. basically prior to changing the cable it would cause the computer to hang/freeze etc randomly and fairly recently it was getting to a point it would stop my computer from booting and once i removed both the SATA cables from the controller card the PC booted up fine. all i got connected to that PCI-E controller card is two SATA DVD burners and a old IDE CD-RW drive. so basically instead of having just 4 SATA ports on my motherboard i got a total of 6 SATA ports now along with one of the old IDE style. side note: my older 400GB Seagate seems to be questionable to but i wonder if it's partially because of a faulty SATA cable as i might have had that drive on that controller card with the bad SATA cable at one point. but ill just keep an eye on it and i only have it as a external hard drive now.
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