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post #1 of 19
1/11/04 at 5:04am
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I just read on some site that your computer makes a copy of every document that you have ever made, along with visited sites, including like office or outlook and saves it to a hidden folder along with all of your other info from the net or wherever in a index.dat name or something like that. Thats freaky. "WE ARE WATCHING YOU" haha
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post #2 of 19
1/11/04 at 5:36am
bs...if there was...i would be in jail . No...seriously...there isn't anything like that in any microsoft os.
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post #3 of 19
1/11/04 at 5:43am
its called your temp folder, and your cookies.
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post #4 of 19
1/11/04 at 10:57am
uhh its windows there are tracks no matter where u go, its more then temp and cookies, u are forgetting about histroy, reg keys, and what not, not exactly new, its been happening since win95,
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post #5 of 19
1/11/04 at 11:38am
NO ONE IS SAFE!!!
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post #6 of 19
1/11/04 at 12:05pm
Yep and if you been surfing midget lebaoneese amputee pr0n it sends your name and address to the NSA.
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post #7 of 19
1/11/04 at 12:47pm
THAT'S why they keep calling...

-Craig
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post #8 of 19
1/11/04 at 12:52pm
In XP Pro I use two "computer administrator" accounts. In the "documents and settings" folder you can delete the index DAT file of the "other account. And visa versa. The index DAT is in the cookies folder. You will need to UNhide folders in order to see the Local Settings and Recent Documents folders. The Local Settings folder has the history folder, the Temp folder, and the Tempory Internet Files.

-aurora.
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post #9 of 19
1/11/04 at 1:02pm
Um. to clerify. no, no, no. not a pron monger. I just like to "test" experimental reverse engineering programming. (on my own creations). Need a clean ship to keep all outside influence controlled. Those files are known to slowwww down a fast machine.
-aurora
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post #10 of 19
1/11/04 at 1:18pm
Its the history and temp folder, just delete them
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post #11 of 19
1/11/04 at 2:31pm
No body is safe at all...the only thing Bill Gates has to do is slip in a couple lines of source coude into the OS and he can have complete access to every Computer with a Microsoft OS on it...lol
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post #12 of 19
1/11/04 at 3:27pm
It is probably already there. (Somewhere in the Services)
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post #13 of 19
1/12/04 at 10:46am
Yes and No.. your computer deletes files but you can get them back if you have the right tools. Thats how programs like norton undelete and others work and thats also why there are programs out there that delete files and rewrite the disk space with zeros so it's harder to get that info back.

The files already on your comp dont matter but files you delete can be brought back. Anyway it's how the FBI and stuff gets back into and also how they find stuff on peoples hard drives even after they're deleted.
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post #14 of 19
1/12/04 at 3:19pm
Note to self: Buy more aluminium foill.
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post #15 of 19
1/12/04 at 4:20pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by FuFu
Yes and No.. your computer deletes files but you can get them back if you have the right tools. Thats how programs like norton undelete and others work and thats also why there are programs out there that delete files and rewrite the disk space with zeros so it's harder to get that info back.

The files already on your comp dont matter but files you delete can be brought back. Anyway it's how the FBI and stuff gets back into and also how they find stuff on peoples hard drives even after they're deleted.

There are plenty of eraser programes out there that write over the deleted sectors. It takes time though but if you want to be sure that something is completely unrecoverable then that is your only option.
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post #16 of 19
1/12/04 at 4:22pm

M$ is Evil (black market info ebaY!)

Lets keep this confidential lets say B. gates or no no... to obvious how about Bill G. hoards all the info and sells it to anyone who is the highest bidder. Japan buys most of it so they can better market thier hardware to the US computer users. The RIAA buys some too so they can bust you for stealing thier music and thier movies. about 10% goes to some guy in Iowa named Bob who is jsut a big pervert and gets off on knowing stuff about people he has never met.
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post #17 of 19
1/12/04 at 5:07pm
Bah, its not your pcs you need to worry about guys.
Last semester we learned in CI that your ISP has a record of every single site, search, and such you have ever done on the net.

So getting rid of your Temp folder isnt going to help much

note that i cant back this up . . . i'm just repeating what i was told hehe
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post #18 of 19
1/12/04 at 7:29pm
The only reason you should even worry about stuff like that is if you are under investigation by the FBI.....
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post #19 of 19
1/12/04 at 9:30pm
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Originally Posted by Right Winger
The only reason you should even worry about stuff like that is if you are under investigation by the FBI.....
I had one these babies installed last year. http://www.americansaferooms.com/ Its great but I had to rethink the wireless internet connection so I'm only on Cat5e.
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