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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Our son is a genius with computers ect. He's back from uni and wanting to improve our broadband speed.
He's asking for lots of info. At a previous address he managed to find everyone's internet history.
Is there anyway we can clear everything and we don't just mean on each device we mean everything as if anyone can track it he can.
Can we also rename our devices?
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By *ot40sCouple
over a year ago
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"Our son is a genius with computers ect. He's back from uni and wanting to improve our broadband speed.
He's asking for lots of info. At a previous address he managed to find everyone's internet history.
Is there anyway we can clear everything and we don't just mean on each device we mean everything as if anyone can track it he can.
Can we also rename our devices?
Thanks "
Guys do what we do with our kids and tell them not to touch your stuff lol !!!
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By *art6869Man
over a year ago
teesside, also york durham, newcastle areas |
When using computer whichever browser you are using use it in private mode, or secret mode, you access this by clicking on settings when you have opened tge browser, when using this method, no files, cookies, page histiry are stored. To erase everything now, go into browser settings and click on 'clear history, cookies, cache' then restart computer. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Having a separate account won't help if he's an admin. Admin accounts have full access to all files and folders.
I would suggest using Chrome in incognito mode - this is good practice for numerous reasons. If you use something like Chrome on another PC, it will import your account details and history. I have a friend who was fired for this reason, since his history appeared on a work PC.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I had this problem, I have 2 son's with degrees in IT. One suddenly decided to sort out my PC for me. He was going through the pictures on desktop, I,m on the sofa squirming with embarrassment. He suddenly exclaimed " here's a picture of a penis" It was a pic of my former FWB s cock. I managed to talk my way out of it by saying I had downloaded it to send to my sister as a joke. I was praying the other pictures I had on it were in the recycle bin! Lol XXX |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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If you use shift-delete, it will delete things entirely rather than send them to the recycle bin. Items in the bin can still be seen - even deleted items can be recovered if you know what to do.
I know what to do |
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By (user no longer on site)
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You want the bad news or good news.
Good news is: private browsing hides your browsing in that no cookies stored etc.
Bad news: if he is a proper whizz and goes snooping he will relatively easily find your browsing history.
Easy to delete cookies but thumbnails etc will be stored. If you want more info get back to me |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I'd be asking my son why he felt the need to search everyones browsing history  "
My suspicion is this is borne out or paranoia, not that they think he's going to look at it. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I'd be asking my son why he felt the need to search everyones browsing history
My suspicion is this is borne out or paranoia, not that they think he's going to look at it."
I get that, i'd feel the same lol, but they said he's done it before. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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OP, yes you can rename your devices.
What do you mean by track? Do you mean you want to know if he's looked at your Internet history? Wouldn't it be easier just to not let him look at your computer?
If your Internet is slow, it could be numerous different things anyway.
Option B - get one of us to fix it for you! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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No paranioa for those who think that's the case.
He's wanting to speed up our terrible broadband speed and fears that neighbours may be using our wifi, unlikely we know but he knows how to find out.
Thanks for those who've tried to help. He's not looking through 'our devices' but he'll be able to see the household history with the right info.
Stands to reason we don't want him finding anything re swinging or porn really.
As relative technophobes I'm not sure we can prevent him finding this stuff by reading your posts sadly. Ps. We don't download stuff it's just browsing ect
Daisy & paul
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"Ps it's not a computer!
We use phones/iPads connected to wifi"
You can clear the history.
Go to Settings
Click Safari
Click Clear history and website data
All browsing history will be deleted
Move any photos to the cloud
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"Our son is a genius with computers ect. He's back from uni and wanting to improve our broadband speed.
He's asking for lots of info. At a previous address he managed to find everyone's internet history.
Is there anyway we can clear everything and we don't just mean on each device we mean everything as if anyone can track it he can.
Can we also rename our devices?
Thanks "
Even if you delete it the easy way a good person will be able to find it
Best to tell him you're happy with the speed lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Try freeware like cc cleaner which clears your browsing history.
Or uninstall your browsers and reinstall a new one like Firefox or opera.
Always browse in private mode x |
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"No paranioa for those who think that's the case.
He's wanting to speed up our terrible broadband speed and fears that neighbours may be using our wifi, unlikely we know but he knows how to find out.
Thanks for those who've tried to help. He's not looking through 'our devices' but he'll be able to see the household history with the right info.
Stands to reason we don't want him finding anything re swinging or porn really.
As relative technophobes I'm not sure we can prevent him finding this stuff by reading your posts sadly. Ps. We don't download stuff it's just browsing ect
Daisy & paul
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Are you sure those dam Pervy swinging neighbours haven't used your wifi and it's there history not yours |
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"No paranioa for those who think that's the case.
He's wanting to speed up our terrible broadband speed and fears that neighbours may be using our wifi, unlikely we know but he knows how to find out.
Thanks for those who've tried to help. He's not looking through 'our devices' but he'll be able to see the household history with the right info.
Stands to reason we don't want him finding anything re swinging or porn really.
As relative technophobes I'm not sure we can prevent him finding this stuff by reading your posts sadly. Ps. We don't download stuff it's just browsing ect
Daisy & paul
Are you sure those dam Pervy swinging neighbours haven't used your wifi and it's there history not yours "
Neighbours will need the wifi password to access so unless it's been given to them they can't use your wifi. Personally I would keep prying eyes off my IT stuff. I can see some very red faced parents here and what if the lad tells his mates. Doesn't bear thinking about the consequences  |
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