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echo: nthelp
to: Geo
from: /m
date: 2006-06-10 11:55:08
subject: Re: Internet Explorer is spyware

From: /m 


A long while ago (in the dial-up days), I used to see in the registry a
list of sites I visited.  I could never figure out why they were there, and
I haven't checked recently to see if they still are there.

 /m


On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 11:16:00 -0400, "Geo"  wrote:

>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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