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I hope every computer geek will know about index.dat file.
Well my point of view on Privacy that any anonymous hacker should know about you easily. You can clears the IE history, Cookies, Temporary Internet files...but till the URL's you have visited is located under index.dat file. Microsoft have designed that file to track the online surfing behaviour of user but its most vunerable for online Privacy.
Well no more solution to get rid of but i found a way to clears that URL's by Ccleaner, it cleanes it at next system restart.
Well my point of view on Privacy that any anonymous hacker should know about you easily. You can clears the IE history, Cookies, Temporary Internet files...but till the URL's you have visited is located under index.dat file. Microsoft have designed that file to track the online surfing behaviour of user but its most vunerable for online Privacy.
Well no more solution to get rid of but i found a way to clears that URL's by Ccleaner, it cleanes it at next system restart.
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Indexdat scanner http://www.extramile.ro/ is a good utility which lets you see what it holds.
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I usually boot to DOS and delete those files manually.
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after booting to dos, how and where would you delete these files from? Sorry for basic quetions, very noob to this.
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Sep 9th, 2008
Boot to dos and type this
cd windows
deltree /y cookies
deltree /y history
deltree /y tempor~1
and if you want you can delete your swap file by typing
Welcome to the site!
cd windows
deltree /y cookies
deltree /y history
deltree /y tempor~1
and if you want you can delete your swap file by typing
Welcome to the site!
Last edited by The Dude : Sep 9th, 2008 at 11:58 pm.
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