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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 click
the "OK" button.
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Instructions for Netscape:
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.
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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.
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| The Exit Bar |
SafeHouse provides the quick exit link in the
header of every page in the event that you may be discovered by your
abuser while viewing this website.
Clicking anywhere on the purple header bar will immediately take you to
an exit page which redirects your browser to a common site.
We think this procedure will arouse less suspicion than simply closing
your browser window or shutting off your computer and is less likely to
incite an abuser to violence.
Of course, nothing is foolproof and an abuser who is familiar with
computers would be able to trace your browsing back to this website.
Our hope is that if there is no immediate evidence on your monitor
screen, there will be no cause for suspicion on the abuser's part and no
reason to investigate further.
Please remember to follow the instructions on the left and erase any
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