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24-hour Crisis Line
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CAUTION
If you bookmark this or any other site about domestic violence, your abuser can find out that you have been getting information on domestic violence. If you can, clear all cache/history files from your web browser. You may want to access this site from somewhere other than home. See instructions below for eliminating traces to browsing the internet for domestic violence web pages.
Instructions for Internet Explorer
To delete temporary internet files, cookies and pages listed in your History:
- On the menu at the top of the browser window, click on Tools>Internet Options...
- In the dialog window that opens, click on the "General" tab.
- In the section labeled "Temporary Internet Files", if you wish to delete all the files and cookies, click on the "Delete Files..." button. A confirmation dialog will open asking if you want to delete all files in your temporary internet folder. Click "OK".
- If you wish to selectively delete files and cookies, click on the "Settings..." button. A dialog window will open. Click on the "View Files..." button. A window will open with a list of all your temporary internet files and cookies. You can highlight the files you wish to delete and hit the delete key or click Edit>Delete.
- To empty the History folder, click on the "Clear History" button and then the "OK" button.
Instructions for Netscape (Versions 6.0 and higher)
To delete pages listed in your History and Location Bar History:
- Open the Edit menu and choose Preferences.
- Under the Navigator category, click History. (If no subcategories are visible, double-click Navigator to expand the list.)
- Clear History: Click this to delete the list of sites visited.
- Clear Location Bar: Click this to clear the list of sites in the Location bar menu.
To delete Cookies:
Your browser is set by default to accept all cookies. This section describes how to use the Cookies preferences panel to change that setting. If you're not already viewing it, follow these steps:
Important: To remove cookies, follow the steps in this section. Do not try to edit the cookies file on your computer.
- Open the Tools menu and choose Cookie Manager.
- Choose Manage Stored Cookies from the submenu. The Cookie Manager window opens with a list of all the cookies stored on your computer.
- Select one or more cookies and click Remove Cookie, or click Remove All Cookies.
Even though you've removed the cookies now, you will reacquire those same cookies the next time you return to the web site.
To prevent that from happening, select the checkbox labeled "Don't allow removed cookies to be reaccepted later". When this checkbox is selected, web sites for the cookies that you are removing are added to the list of sites whose cookies will automatically be rejected.
You must click OK for your changes to take effect.
Instructions for Netscape (versions 4.7 and lower)
To delete pages listed in your History:
- Click on Communicator>Tools>History on the menu bar at the top of your browser window.
- When the History window opens, highlight the addresses you want to delete and hit the delete key on your keyboard or click on Edit>Delete on the menu bar.
- If you wish to clear the History file, click on Edit>Select All then Edit>Delete.
To empty your cache:
- Click on Edit>Preferences on the menu bar at the top of your browser window.
- When the Preferences window opens, click on the "+" sign in front of "Advanced" in the frame on the left then click on "Cache" to open the cache dialog.
- In the Cache dialog window, click on the "Clear Memory Cache and the "Clear Disk Cache buttons and click on the "OK" button to close the window.
There's no simple mechanism for deleting Cookies in older versions of Netscape. At the same time though, it's not very easy to locate the cookies that are placed on your computer when using Netscape. If you want to delete the cookies in Netscape, you have to open "Windows Explorer" and browse to the "Netscape" folder which is usually in your "Program" folder on your "C" drive. In the "Netscape" folder is a folder called "Users". Open "Users" and then the "default" folder contained within. In the "default" folder there's a file called "cookies.txt". You can delete that file without harming your computer but all your cookies will be removed and some websites that you visit frequently may not recognize you when you return. If you double click the file name, it will open in Notepad and you can edit out the cookies related to domestic violence websites you've visited despite the fact that it says you can't edit the file.
Cookies
Each time you access websites, "cookies" can be created. Cookies are cryptic bookmarks that a Web site can place on your computer to acknowledge your prior visit, authenticate your access or let you continue on through a site from where you last left off. They are really no big deal and will not do anything to damage your computer, however, they can leave a trail of evidence of where you have been on the web. If you visit a website on domestic violence and a cookie is created as a result of that visit, your abuser can trace your trail and discover where you've been.
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