Privacy & Security Software

The purpose of privacy & security software is to protect the users from unscrupulous individuals who would steal their info and use it for malicious reasons.  Here is another definition with insight:

"Privacy & security software is software built to protect the privacy of its users. The software typically works in conjunction with Internet usage to control or limit the amount of information made available to third-parties. The software can apply encryption or filtering of various kinds.

Privacy & security software can refer to two different types of protection. One type is protecting a user's Internet privacy from the World Wide Web. There are software products that will mask or hide a user's IP address from the outside world in order to protect the user from identity theft. The other type of protection is hiding or deleting the users Internet traces that are left on their PC after they have been surfing the Internet. There is software that will erase all the users Internet traces and there is software that will hide and encrypt a user's traces so that others using their PC will not know where they have been surfing."

One very good privacy & security product in this arena is Tenebril GhostSurf. This product is design for the home and small business market.

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