From: "Rich Gauszka" 

index.dat knows your sites and what cookies you have used. There are both
commercial and freeware index.dat erasers out there


"Geo"  wrote in message
news:448ae5f5$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>I am so tired of finding that I can't browse anywhere without having
> microsoft record every damn place I go and using my computer as storage to
> hold this history in hidden places and against my commands.
>
> Ok try this, purge your cache, purge your cookies, use tweakUI to purge
> all,
> use whatever programs you like to remove all traces of where you have been
> browsing.
>
> Now go to your profile/local settings/temp/temporary internet
> files/content.ie5 and using notepad open index.dat then scroll to the very
> bottom (it's blank at the top in a last hope effort to fool you).
>
> WTF? I mean how hard do I have to work to keep my computer from recording
> my
> every browse or at least purging this shit when I tell it to? And this
> just
> changed recently (like with the april IE patches as it used to be
> profile/local settings/temporary internet files/content.ie5 (which is
> still
> there btw). Must have been some sort of an effort to break the special
> purge
> programs that are available.
>
> It's like MS is being told by homeland security to add forensic features
> to
> windows. This has now gotten to the point where I'm booting knoppix from
> CD
> to do my browsing.
>
> Geo.
>
>

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