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Privacy Protection Products
and information on this page include Articles, Ad-Blocking,
Browsers, Browser Clean-Up,
Cookie Managers, Email Privacy,
Kid Safe, Multiple Features,
Password Manager & Form Filler,
Private Browsing, Web Bugs,
and
Privacy Resource Sites.
Basic Internet security measures including ISP online filters, firewall, and
virus, Trojan, worm, spyware and spam protection are only the beginning. For
families, software to protect kids is needed. If you keep sensitive personal
information and/or documents on your computer, they should be password protected
or encrypted. If you dislike the idea of companies tracking your surfing habits,
you need software to erase your browser tracks and manage cookies. If you prefer
to install fewer products with more features, take a look at our page on
Internet security suites or other products with
multiple features on this page.
Articles
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Keep
Your Kids Safe, Sebastian Rupley, PC Magazine, August 3, 2004
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Trace
Removers, Neil Rubenking, PC Magazine, June 8, 2004
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Guarding against high-tech identity theft, Eric Sinrod, USA
Today, March 17, 2004
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Encryption and Online Privacy, Mike Dowler, PCstats, September
23, 2003
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Cover Your Tracks,
Robertson Barrett, Consumer WebWatch,
June 18, 2003
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How
we can stop identity theft--for good, Robert Vamosi, CNet,
February 12, 2003
- Protect Your
Privacy! CookieCop 2.2, Mark Sweeney, PC Magazine,
January 29, 2003
- Is the US Turning
Into a Surveillance Society? ACLU, January 2003
Software
Ad-Blocking
- AdSubtract Pro,
InterMute, 30 day trial, $30
- AntiPopUp for IE Webknacks, $20; It also cleans Cache
files, Cookies, 'Visited URLs', Typed URL Address dropdown list, the history
folders, Recently Visited links and more.
- PanicWare -- Pop-Up Stopper freeware, Pop-Up Stopper Pro $20, Pop-Up Stopper
Companion $40
- dooyoo Pop-Up Stopper
review, Nibelung,
March 17, 2002
- PopUpCop $20, 30
day free trial
- STOPzilla,
$30, 15 day free trial
- xFX PopUpKiller,
freeware
Browsers
- AVANT Browser,
freeware, includes pop-up stopper, flash filter and records cleaner,
supports RoboForm password manager and form filler (see below)
- MyIE2 Browser,
freeware, includes ad blocker and privacy protection, supports
RoboForm password manager and form filler (see below)
Browser Clean-Up
Cookie Managers
Email Privacy
Kid Safe
- Net Nanny 5 Internet Safety Filter,
$40, CD or download, multiple users, content filter for web sites, IRC Chat,
newsgroups, personal information, email, pop-up and pop-under ad blocker, and
cookie blocking.
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Net Nanny
Bounces Back, Jay Munro, PC Magazine, January 23, 2003
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Keeping Internet predators at bay, Edward Baig, USA Today, January 29,
2003
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Web Watchers, Antone Gonsalves, TechLearning, January 15, 2003
- McAfee Privacy Services
 ,
$35 per year, age based Internet access, content filter for web, chat and
privacy, cookie blocking, automatic updates and upgrades.
- Contentwatch
-- audit is free, cleanup $20, content protect $50, popup protect $30, email
protect $40, watchworks $90 (combines content, popup and spam protection).
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Kid Surfer,
$30,
download, browser for kids 3-12, kids can only view approved sites. Site
selection criteria prohibit adult focused, violence, foul language, ads and
links that are not kid safe, chat rooms, un-monitored message boards.
- iProtectYou,
$30, download, 21 day free trial, control which web sites can be visited,
which programs can have Internet access, block e-mails, chat sessions and
instant messages with inappropriate words, stop annoying ads, and/or restrict
Internet time to a predetermined schedule. Set different levels of
restrictions for every member of your family depending on their maturity,
interest, habits, and parental control needs.
Multiple Features
- GuardWall, $30,
block pop ups, erase web history, home page protection
- Netkeys Ultra,
Software Appliance Company,
$75 list, personal firewall,
parental controls, email controls, web bug controls, ad blocking, and more.
- PanicWare -- Don't Panic $30, Surf Pal $35, Pop-Up Stopper Pro $20, Pop-Up Stopper
Companion $40
- WinPlanet Surf Pal
review,
Eric Grevstad, January 14, 2002
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Proxomitron
- Steganos Security Suite, free trial available, $50 list; includes file and email encryption, a file
safe, Internet trace eliminator, file shredder, password manager, and computer
lock.
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Steganos Security Suite 6, Nigel Whitfield, Personal
Computer World, March 12, 2004
- IT Reviews
review,
June 27, 2003
- CNet
review, Barry Brenesal, April 4, 2003
- Vnunet
review,
Scott Colvey, February 27, 2003
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WebWasher ad blocker with
filters for web bugs, referrers, cookies, and urls, freeware
- Password Manager & Form Filler
-- RoboForm, Siber Systems, free web form filler and
password manager, Pro version is $30.
- PC Magazine
review,
Cade Metz, June 17, 2003
- Private Browsing
- Web Bugs
- Bugnosis
web bug detector,
Privacy Foundation, freeware
Privacy Resource
Sites
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