internet explorer history

[cbmudd]

I have deleted my IE history. But when useing super winspy it shows a few old websites from a year ago. Where is it getting this info from???????

 

[Diancecht]

There was a nice thread about this, but I cannot find it right now.

From the top of my head, it talked about a program called IEspy.htm that revealed all the locations where that information was stored.

Sorry to be so vague, I'll try to find it.

Cheers,
Dian

 

[eyec]

they can be found in the index.dat file

 

[tfg13]

Check out my FAQ on this very subject. And yes, this is the IESpy.htm, and the .vbs that can delete the results....

faq779-6302

 

[barny2006]

i tried to run the code. it said syntax error in line 330, char 77. is this code checked? is it run? tested?

 

[tfg13]

This code works well. There may be an issue with the copy and paste. Which of the codes are you trying to run?

 

[barny2006]

the one that delete ie history.
Author: Vengy
' Email : cyber_flash@hotmail.com
' Tested: win2K/XP

 

[tfg13]

Change:

fnFormatDate = Left(d,4)+"/"+Mid(d,5,2)+"/"+Mid(d,7,2)+"-"+Mid(d,9,4)+
"/"+Mid(d,13,2)+"/"+Mid(d,15,2)

to read all one line.....

 

[barny2006]

i found the problem. it's a copy/paste issue. a line feed splits a line in two. a-ok now.

 

[cbmudd]

Ok I know about the .dat files. All the ones I can acces thru windows seem to have small file sizes. But when in a command dos window, there are .dat files that cannot be gotten too from windows. It is so wierd that windows choose to keep only like 15 references to a few websites stored somewhere that I am yet to find. I mean I have visited thousands of websites. Why did it choose these to keep.

 

[Pleonasm]

CyberScrub Privacy Suite is one tool that I use and recommend in order to wipe the Index.dat file, thereby eliminating a source from which Internet history may be constructed.

See:

http://www.cyberscrub.com/products/privacysuite/index.php

 

[linney]

See what this site says about deleting Index.dat files safely.

Safely Delete the Temporary Internet Files

http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/delcache.htm

This may also explain part of your problem.

The article is Windows 9x related but the story of Desktop.ini and Index.dat files is pretty much applicable to XP.

http://sillydog.org/mshidden.html

You will find it interesting around paragraph 5 "How Microsoft does it".

 

[cbmudd]

Ok. I have installed several index.dat readers. and now have a good idear of where all this information comes from.
In fact each reader is able to get to levals that others cannot. but the weirdest part is it all seems to be a random sampling. The dates are days and months apart and it shows a lot of url's, but it is no where near every website I have ever visited on this system..... How does windows decide what to log and what not to. Does it get overwritten. Does anyone know more on this....????

 

[cbmudd]

One other interesting note. One of the random dates is december 25th.........

 

[eyec]

if you really want to see"all" of the hidden files try a program called Indexdat Suite

however, if you are not careful you may end up deleting files you shouldn't.

 

[cbmudd]

Ok I like Indexdat Suite... I studied it very carefully.
And was able to delete the index.dat files I selected.
I like the way that program works.

One question though. It automaticaly includes windows prefetch files in the batch file it creates. Is this nessarysary in the processs of running the batch file in dos window at startup, or can that part be taken out. Since I did not see an option in Indexdat Suite I figured it was nessasary.....