Privacy features such as InPrivate browsing in Internet Explorer 8 and similar features in Chrome and Firefox promise to protect your privacy by not keeping track of page history, temporary files and cookies. This may be enough to hide your tracks from a beginner computer user but there are still traces of what sites you visit within the local DNS cache. An advanced user can run the ipconfig /displaydns command to view the most recent sites visited.
For example, when you start InPrivate browsing in Internet Explorer and visit Bing.com.
The DNS Cache shows where you have been.
The best way to improve the privacy of your InPrivate browsing sessions is to also clear the local DNS cache after closing the browser. Open up an administrative level command prompt and type ipconfig /flushdns and hit Enter.
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Jmanay04
@Steve - I believe you talked right over NoAdmin's point - which is if the user is NOT an admin user, they very well may have NO "admin credentials" to use in order to flush the cache. Since flushing is strictly an admin privilege, the non-admin user is out of luck here!
I see this on a lot of tips where the authors fail to mention to readers that whatever they are recommending in many cases requires Admin privileges to in order to carry out the instructions!
You do say "Open up an administrative level command prompt" but many folks miss that subtle qualification".
I just visited this and I am already in Love with this site. I just wanna know if there are any other ways that our online activity is traced by say a Employer though we are using our Laptop from Home Network.
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