Psycho-Babble Administration Thread 417786

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Exactly what all did I erase?

Posted by saw on November 19, 2004, at 5:44:21

I erased my internet history using a program called Anti Tracks (http://www.rightutilities.com/)

When I went onto babble, every single post on every single board had "new" tags and I had to re-enter my user name and password which I have never had to do.

I didn't erase cookies, only my internet tracks, or so I thought.

Sabrina

Re: Exactly what all did I erase? » saw

Posted by verne on November 19, 2004, at 10:47:43

In reply to Exactly what all did I erase?, posted by saw on November 19, 2004, at 5:44:21

I think Anti-Tracks erases index.dat files upon the next reboot and, in doing so, the cookies are erased too. Or Anti-Tracks just assumes you want "all" traces of your internet activity erased.

From what I've read (I'm no wiz) these index.dat files are a kind of permanent record of one's internet surfing history including all the "deleted" temp files and cookies - not to mention passwords and credit card numbers. Some say it's a Microsoft conspiracy, others, poor design.

Anyway, as soon as we delete these files, they are reborn to keep track of our every move until we eradicate them again.

verne

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