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Who's been on my laptop

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  • Ha ha, it was Autotrader!!!!
  • > Autotrader!!!!

    So I was right then :)

    And those who were talking about pr0n just have nasty minds :A
  • JasX
    JasX Posts: 3,996 Forumite
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    edited 16 September 2009 at 12:34PM
    You could find a freeware index.dat analyser and see whats in your index.dat file.....

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index.dat

    ""
    Another contention is that the operating system gives a false sense of security. Even after the user has cleared the internet cache folder, temporary internet files folder, and history folder, the index.dat files on Windows continue to store all the visited web addresses and cookies and some temporary files. This may eventually cause the index.dat files to grow very large, while the average user remains unaware of what is going on.
    ""
  • Cheers JasX, I'll give it a go.
  • daveboy
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    Ha ha, it was Autotrader!!!!
    :mad::mad::mad:
  • JasX wrote: »
    You could find a freeware index.dat analyser and see whats in your index.dat file.....

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index.dat

    ""
    Another contention is that the operating system gives a false sense of security. Even after the user has cleared the internet cache folder, temporary internet files folder, and history folder, the index.dat files on Windows continue to store all the visited web addresses and cookies and some temporary files. This may eventually cause the index.dat files to grow very large, while the average user remains unaware of what is going on.
    ""

    For those that share or use public laptops. Or as JasX mentioned, want to keep the index.dat file size down to a minimum.

    Free Internet Washer - washes index.dat files among other things you configure it to.
    http://www.eusing.com/Window_Washer/Window_Washer.htm
  • davester
    davester Posts: 4,079 Forumite
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    kwikbreaks wrote: »
    > Autotrader!!!!

    So I was right then :)

    And those who were talking about pr0n just have nasty minds :A


    Yeah Autoerotictrader :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
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