Campbell

Recognizing that this response is moving off the topic, this suggestion does impel the question how safe is it relying on the browser to clear its own history properly without leaving any traces? I mean isn't the whole purpose of CCleaner to scrub these traces better than the browser can?

Guess it depends what you use CCleaner for, but I use it to scrub my internet browsing history each night. The fact that it continues to display visited links after the scrub is very much of a problem for me. I noticed the problem with Google and Yahoo retaining the link history after the scrub with version 4.02. The problem does not appear to occur with 4.01 (at least for me) in IE10. I'm inclined to discount IE10 being the cause for these reasons.

Yes I just noticed the same thing too with MS IE 10 on Win 7 64-bit. I'm assuming that there is a bug in 4.02.4115. I've reverted back to the prior version 4.01.4093 (which appears to work correctly) for now until this is fixed.