Prevent deletion of IE 6 History records

[playingthru4]

I'm trying to prevent a user from deleting the history records in IE 6 on a Windows 2000 machine. All Windows/IE 6 updates have been applied, the user is logged in to a User account, I have set the browser to keep history for 999 days and have disabled modification and deletion of History settings in the Local Policy settings. I have also in Local Policy disabled the command prompt and registry editing, removed Run, Help, and Search from the Start menu, removed the "Folder" Option from the Tools menu (with "Do not show System or Hidden files" preset), and have removed access to and disabled the Settings option of the Start menu. I also have the BIOS set to boot to hard drive only, preventing the use of a Dos startup disk. In other User accounts on the same machine, the History data is there, while in the above mentioned account when you try to view the history using the browser History button, the "4 weeks ago", "3 weeks ago" ...etc headings are there but there is no History of URL's within. What am I missing that is still allowing this person to delete IE 6 History?

 

[rmeleiro]

Just a suggestion to your problem: in Windows 2000, the command prompt is always present. The user just has to create a shortcut in the desktop using the context menu, type in "cmd" and...

 

[eyec]

check for a binary reader/editor program on the machine.

they can be used to delete history files.

 

[tfg13]

Below is a thread you may be interested in.

thread931-925100

Here is the reason I forwarded you to this thread. Even though the user deletes records of use (IE History files), there still is a residual location that they cannot get rid of unless they remove their profile. I have yet to find a way to delete my "own" index.dat file without getting rid of my profile, or logging in as an administrator to get rid of it....

 

[Dollie]

There are two locations on the hard drive where the temporary internet files are stored. It sounds like your user knows how to access one of them, but it's possible they may not know both.

You don't need to be viewing the history through the browser. When you do, you are altering the history files just by opening the browser. You need to be looking at the file view, and looking at it in the right place on the HD.

Something else to consider.... if you have a firewall, look through your firewall logs for that specific user. That'll tell you just as much, if not more, than history files.