Adults with kids may be troubled in terms of what internet history might exist on their computer resulting from their internet sessions, or their children's. Algorithms that detect adult material in addition to pulling up pornography in other formats, must securely clean out suspect images from the system after testing is over, when asked to do so. These applications often implement a variant of a file washing pass meant to securely clean all erased history items so that they cannot be accessed ever again. Proper removal is an advantage for file cleanup products like this.

Flushing out a computer's multimedia files can be primarily biased toward only adult content, but not always. Sometimes the user could want to find other kinds of files too, such as .wav files, erase internet site history, compressed files, files with incorrect extensions, and others flagged for detection by the software's operator. And, because scanning is already running for the pornographic items, you can also run a scan of the other file types during that scan.

Cleaning out a full drive that contains undesirable or similar files, may be performed using one of the many custom designed porn detection products which are now made sourceable on the software vendors' websites. Every one of these drive analysis software products are designed to clean adult pictures and videos off of drives but also improve responsiveness. Porn cleanup utilities are purpose built to easily remove history as well as remove unwanted unsuitable file hidden in your work system as necessary. Any of these can encapsulate image analysis, RealMedia format detection, hard drive cleanup plus much more.