The safest option 

If you are concerned that someone is monitoring your internet usage, your safest option is to access the internet from another place, such as a friend's house, your place of work, an internet cafe or local library.
 

Other options

Below are some steps you can also take to cover your tracks and increase your safety online.

Clear your internet history

Every time you use the internet, your internet browser automatically saves pieces of information as 'cookies' in its history or cache, such as the search words you type into search engines, website pages you visit, or passwords and login names you use.

Depending on the browser and the version of the browser you use, you can either:

• preset your own privacy settings, or
   
• manually clear your history and/or empty your cache files after each use.

How to do this manually

Listed below are manual procedures for some of the most popular internet browsers. It's important to note that doing this may also raise suspicion, although these procedures are commonly used to improve computer performance.

When making any changes to your browser settings, be sure to close and restart your browser to ensure the changes take affect.

Do you know what browser you are using?

If you know what browser you are using, select your browser from the list below for the relevant instructions.

To find out what browser you are using:

Select Help from the browser toolbar.

A drop-down menu will appear and at the bottom will read, 'About Internet Explorer' or 'About Mozilla Firefox', etc,.

Select this and a new window will appear with details of the browser version.