Your computer remembers the movies, images and documents you have opened and the web sites you have visited. Ask yourself what would happen if your boss, spouse, kids or colleagues could see what you have been doing. Mil Shield deletes all tracks from your computer activities. With Mil Shield you can browse, work or entertain without fear and concerns.
NEW! Mil Shield supports selective
cleanup of Internet browsing tracks (including cookies, history, Temporary Internet
Files and index.dat files), automatic cleaning on Windows startup or shutdown
or when Internet Explorer is closed, boss key (also known as panic key) and
full support for many user accounts. It also cleans Google and MyWaySearch toolbar
history. After initial configuration you can use it in install-and-forget mode.
Features of Mil Shield
NEW! Selective cleaning. Many of
privacy threats come from Internet Explorer features that are good and convenient:
Internet cache speeds up the browsing, cookies protect you from entering your
user information over and over again, etc. Mil Shield 3.0 selectively preserves
temporary Internet files, history and/or cookies for chosen by you safe Internet
sites.
NEW! Automatic cleaning. You can
schedule background cleaning at each startup or shutdown, or when the Internet
Explorer is closed. While running in background Mil Shield is completely
invisible.
NEW! Advanced cleanup scheduling.
For more advanced users Mil Shield offers additional way to automate
making of silent cleanups. You can use the command-line utility ShieldAgent.exe
to schedule silent cleanups at arbitrary times using Windows Task Scheduler,
other scheduling program or batch script. This is very useful when automatic
backups are made; when many computers need to be cleaned from user tracks (for
example in computer classrooms) or when there is a need to clean the user tracks
on remote computer.
NEW! Support for user accounts. On
multi-user systems most of the tracks are user-specific. With Mil Shield you can choose the user accounts that will be cleaned. This feature
works both with user profiles in Windows 95/98/ME and with user accounts in
Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista.
Cleans and shreds Index.dat files. Index.dat files are cache files used by Internet
Explorer. When you visit a Web page, Internet Explorer saves the address of
the page, time of visiting and even HTTP request for this page in few different
Index.dat files. The cookie names and some other information is also stored
in the Index.dat files. Later this information is not deleted even if you delete
History and temporary Internet files folders content. Everyone can see the contents
of these files with a binary editor program, which exposes all tracks of your
browsing.
These files can not be found with regular file search and even if you find them,
you can not delete them because they are used by Windows all the time. Mil Shield
deletes the contents of these files with low-level file operations to be sure
that there are no traces left.
Boss key combination. Every now and then there are situations where you
need to clean the tracks very fast. For example it may be your boss coming in
while you are losing your time browsing the Internet. For such cases there is
so called stealth key combination in Mil Shield 3.0. All you need to do is to
press certain keys together and all open Internet Explorer windows are closed
and an invisible background cleanup is started.
NEW! In addition to all open Internet
Explorer windows, Mil Shield will close some other "embarrassing"
programs when stealth key is pressed. This option is useful when you are afraid
that your boss or someone else can come in and look at your display while you
are doing something. In such case you can hit the stealth key combination and
all embarrassing programs will be immediately closed. Here is the list of default
applications that are closed when boss key is pressed:
- Windows Media Player. Both standard Media Player and classing Media
Player (mplayer2.exe) are closed. Additionally, the Media Player update dialog
is closed if it is shown.
- Irfan Viewer. This application is included because it is widely used
to view pictures and videoclips.
- ACDSee. This application is included because it is widely used to view
pictures.
- Standard Windows Games. All standard Windows games that are shipped
with Windows XP are closed: FreeCell, Hearts, Internet Backgammon, Internet
Checkers, Internet Hearts, Internet Reversi, Internet Spades, Minesweeper, Pinball,
Solitaire, Spider Solitaire.
- MSN Messenger.
- Yahoo Pager (Yahoo Messenger).
- ICQ. Both ICQ Lite and ICQ Pro are closed.
Cleans AutoComplete forms and passwords. The AutoComplete feature of
the Internet Explorer saves previous entries you've made for Web forms (including
your name, e-mail, SSN, credit card information) and passwords. Then, when you
type information in one of these fields, AutoComplete suggests possible matches.
Obviously this is a major privacy threat. Mil Shield reliably cleans all AutoComplete
records.
Restores home page of the Internet Explorer if it has been hijacked. Many Web
sites change (also known as hijacking) your home page to their pages (usually
full of ads and with many annoying pop-up windows). Mil Shield allows you to
set a preferred home page that will be restored each time when a cleaning is
performed.
Cleans all kinds of Web browsing tracks. Mil Shield cleans following Web
browsing tracks:
AutoComplete forms and passwords.
All Index.dat files.
Temporary Internet files (a.k.a. Internet cache).
Cookies.
UserData records.
Typed URL history.
Browse history records.
Most recently used download folder.
Restores your home page.
Cleans all kinds of Windows tracks. Mil Shield cleans all kinds of Windows
tracks:
Recent documents history.
Most recently used folders records of the Windows shell.
List of most recently opened files of common file dialogs.
File and computer search history of the Windows shell
Start menu Run history.
Start menu most frequently used (MFU) programs list (the list in the left part
of Windows XP Start menu).
Recycle Bin at low level (not only through the Windows shell).
Windows temporary files.
Windows clipboard.
Cleans the tracks of some popular applications. Mil Shield cleans the tracks
of the following applications:
Windows Media Player
Microsoft Office
ACDSee
Irfan View
WinZip
WinRAR
GetRight
FlashGet
Go!Zilla
Download Accelerator Plus (DAP)
Net Vampire
Google Toolbar
NEW! Google Desktop Search web history records
NEW! Google Desktop Search e-mail records
NEW! Google Deskbar
NEW! Yahoo toolbar (Companion)
NEW! ICQ toolbar
MyWaySearch PopSwatter Toolbar
Works even on older computers. While Mil Shield takes full benefit of
the new technologies in the latest versions of Windows and Internet Explorer,
it fully supports and is completely tested on the older systems like Windows
95, Windows NT 4.0 and Internet Explorer 3.
