NetShred X: Email and Browsing Privacy
Wednesday, January 25th, 2006
NetShred is a stand-alone app that protects your
It supports all the main browsers and the following email clients -
After launching the app (a process that can be automated so that occurs at start-up) , its main screen presents you will an overview of its abilities:
Installed browsers are highlighted in green, active ones in red.
Caches and histories can only be securely shredded when the app is closed. You can either do this manually, or set NetShred X to perform the shredding automatically when you exit the app.
The Preference Pane provides further options:
Here you can set the degree of automation that you want, what you would like the app to shred, what degree of shredding you require and how many write-overs you would like.
A further tab allows you to specify which browsers and email clients NetShred should monitor and shred.
In this day and age people have more reason than ever to think about their
NetShred is shareware (USD 19.95). A fully featured demo is available from the developer’s web site.
Tags: browser, browsing histories, caches, Eudora, Internet, mail.app, Mailsmith, Mozilla, online privacy, privacy, shredding