Web Privacy: ActivatorDesk(TM) To Respond To Issues On CBS's 60 Minutes

Whether you realize it or not, you are being watched. Your 'internet picture' is being taken by strangers when you browse the web each day. As soon as you connect to the Internet and start visiting web sites, you’re as likely as not to having your activities tracked and recorded without your notice or permission by third party 'databankers' or marketing and advertising agencies. These 'databankers' then sell your browsing patterns and other information. In some instances, they can match your patterns even to your most personal of information and now you are a detailed file in some stranger’s database. Outrage over this has even provoked Congressional inquiries, multimillion dollar lawsuits, and landed in current presidential party platforms.

Surreptitious new tracking devices called ‘web-bugs’ don’t knock at your door asking if they can come in. These invisible ‘markers’ are hidden in many web sites you invite onto your screen. Since they are invisible, they can't be seen or easily detected and they may also be used to track your web activities.

Is your 'free' internet browser itself 'bugged'? Very recently Netscape discontinued their Smart Download feature after users complained of it tracking user file download activities. Also, most 'free' browsers, with built-in advertising, track users' clicks while in use, then use this information to attract advertising dollars. This use is often unveiled in Privacy Statements, but not in the browser itself. All of this has everybody very disturbed. Where does this tracking end and who can you trust?

ActivatorDesk will put an end to most of this privacy invasion. While you are browsing, the new ActivatorDesk Anti-Tracking and Anti-Advertising filters are at work automatically preventing common third-party 'web-bugs' and advertiser tracking. These also block most banner ads and cookies; helping to further preserve your privacy, bandwidth, and even improve browser speed and performance. Your privacy is significantly enhanced real-time when you browse. The program does not track your clicks. Finally, a tool exists that may give you a fighting chance in the privacy game.

Its' empowering features won't stop there. ActivatorDesk is a Windows program you may install to experience a faster, and even more secure Windows and Internet. Unlike Windows itself, ActivatorDesk runs upon a powerful secure database server system. You may migrate your existing Windows desktop Start button menus and internet favorites or bookmarks into a fast, clean, memory-based programmable desktop.

To be included is the ability to extend user specific security with and beyond most standard Windows security, controlling both the programs allowed to be run, web sites allowed for use, and even custom graphical desktop skins and themes. Thus you may form your own unique desktop with a frontline security layer or shield against potential abuse, sabotage, tampering, and viewing of inappropriate internet content. This prevents abuse right where it occurs, at the desktop itself.

These unique features will be indispensable to administrators vying for increased business productivity, educators requiring safe internet environments, parents seeking control over their children's internet use, and manufacturers or resellers who wish to compete vigorously by selling safe-internet or secure PCs. All this is further complemented by the ability to customize the desktop with graphical skins matched to Windows themes and schemes.

The product will be delivered with more than 13,000 of the internet's most popular links which may be used as a safe-sites-only browsing list. Any one may add to this list by importing standard browser bookmark files. These may then be easily distributed and imported by employees or parents for convenient widespread integration anywhere the program is used.

Key to the value of the ActivatorDesk product is a dedication to personal privacy, a multitude of features, substantially reduced cost, and ease of use. Any one can set up this simple to use desktop without requiring expensive and hard to maintain filter systems. It may be used as a simple internet desktop browser system with or without its security features engaged. ActivatorDesk provides simple solutions to difficult Internet-related problems for consumers, educators and business owners/system administrators.

Here are just a few of the many valuable exclusive features planned:

• Faster Speed - Transforms most Windows and Internet functions into a substantially faster database server and memory driven desktop environment.

• Powerful Internet Browser - Includes the internets most powerful web browser and fastest built-in 13,000+ link on-board portal, simultaneous multi-site browsing, automatic browsing, search, language translation links, and many more new exclusive browser features.

• Internet MultiSearch - Powerful internet search functions include fast server based searching of major internet search engines all at once (metasearch), all major newswires, internet auctions, videos, books, mp3, forums and news groups, jobs, shopping vendors all from just one simple command line interface.

• Desktop Customization - Use the Windows interface or design your very own personal or corporate desktop with a fully graphical 'skinnable' interface for use with custom images, logos , buttons, Macromedia's Flash, and even 'matched' to standard Windows desktop themes and schemes.

• Personal Web Privacy - Anti-Tracking and Anti-Advertising filters automatically prevent common third-party 'Web Bugs', and advertisers tracking and banner ads, to help preserve your privacy, bandwidth, and to improve browser speed and performance. This includes personal cookie management, so you keep only the cookies you want.

• Desktops and Intranet Lock-Down - Exceptionally suited to integration with corporate intranets with 'Lock and Load' specific features including secure programmable direct home page linking at browser loadup and possible matching to the corporate portal with specific corporate desktop graphical skins, themes, and schemes.

• Safe Internet Environments - Visible usable 'Safe-Sites-Only' built-in 13,000+ link portal and/or keyword internet filtering for safer and more productive internet use for children and corporate or educational controlled internet environments. Ready import of standard bookmarks files enables instant distribution and set-up of personalized safe-sites-only filter lists or educational curricula by anyone.

• Frontline PC Boot Security - Controls 'Safe-Programs-Only' that are allowed to be run on a user-by-user login basis substantially reducing the risks of children's abuse or tampering and of potentially disastrous employee sabotage or internal hacker vulnerability, while simultaneously boosting bottom-line productivity. Boot security may also be used not only to simply protect valuable data or information but also to block common virus and install programs from even running.

• MultiUser Windows Security - Supports creation of multiple user accounts, which may also be linked directly to Windows security logged-in user accounts, controlling allowed desktop skin-theme, allowed programs run, and allowed web sites accessed. Many security features are provided which extend even beyond Win2K security and that will work uniformly for any earlier Windows 32bit OS and across a network under centralized administrator server control.

• Access Time Controls - Control the times at which individual computers, programs, and internet functions may be accessed by specific users.

• Desktop Security Monitoring - Monitoring of web sites visited and programs run is achieved through a detailed secure users history logging for both user renavigation and/or an administrators or parents security review.

• Reduced Cost of Ownership - Simple to deploy setup and security can be performed in minutes by virtually any one without any major training and can significantly reduce downtime and cost of ownership within corporate desktop setups or as a compliment to existing or pending Windows network security.

• Corporate Image or Safe-PC Promotion - Wide distribution of custom graphical desktops for safe-internet PC sales or advertising, education, catalog and/or image promotion with custom on-board links or multimedia presentations.

The most effective way to protect the Internet privacy of you, your family, and your business is to take it upon yourself as a personal responsibility. To "keep your clicks to yourself", simply install and use ActivatorDesk’s Anti-Tracking and Anti-Advertising features. You and your business will even save money by not having to print and copy those colorful, slow-loading banner ads. And of course you’ll feel good knowing that you've found a program dedicated to providing customers with tools they may use to protect themselves from the dark-side of cyberspace and whose ethic is one of honesty. "We make the internet a more pleasurable and productive experience. It's the way the internet ought to be." says Mr. Heath.

R. Lee Heath was nominated for the Lemelson M.I.T. Prize by American Heart Association officials who consider his inventions to be some of the most important in years as they have made possible the automatic defibrillator. Mr. Heath knows how to make the extraordinarily complex - simple and practical. He now translates this genius to the Internet, making it more accessible and productive for you. You may wish to receive notice of the release of ActivatorDesk by signing up at http://www.activatordesk.com/. And, if you want to learn more about Mr. Heath’s inventions, you are welcome to visit http://www.rleeheath.com/.

To be notified of the beta release of ActivatorDesk please sign-up at: http://www.activatordesk.com/

To view detailed comparisons of features with Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Netscape, Cyber Patrol, Surf Watch, and Net Nanny please visit: www.activatordesk.com/features.htm

To view the default graphical skins to be delivered with ActivatorDesk visit: www.activatordesk.com/dskins.htm

Link to ActivatorDesk logo graphic: www.activatordesk.com/adesktitlew.gif

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