*possible blonde question alert*

Quackers

Ok,

*wanders in techie board nervously*

I use the computer daily but have VERY basic knowledge

I've discovered a website that has been visited on my pc & was wondering if there was a way I could find out when it was last visited.

Unfortunately, I clicked on the link & opened the page so its already in todays history & I was wondering if there was any way I can find out if it was visited before then. By visiting the site today I think I may have 'scuppered' any possible chance of finding out when t was visited before today?

I found it by typing www.a then www.b etc in the address box so I could see what had been visited recently but haven't done it for a couple of weeks.

Someone has been using my pc over the past 2 days and I was presuming it was them but unfortunately dont want to ask them because its scared me a little.

And no, its not !!!!!! - cos that wouldn't have bothered me as much as this

*Stupid question alert over* - see I know Martin says there is no such thing as a stupid question but me thinks he's wrong on this

And if anyone can help I would be very grateful.

Thank you

wakandem

the history should go back over the last week at least possibly before, it is worth checking, the record is not deleted if you go on to the site the next day
Also you can check the cookie folder to see if a cookie is there from the site and when it was created - my comp- c: drive - docs & settings - your user folder - cookies

bookduck

yhere is usually a trail of cookies left on the pc in the form of [email]your_logon_name@the_site_you_have_visited.txt[/email] left on your pc

Quackers

wakandem wrote: »

the history should go back over the last week at least possibly before, it is worth checking, the record is not deleted if you go on to the site the next day
Also you can check the cookie folder to see if a cookie is there from the site and when it was created - my comp- c: drive - docs & settings - your user folder - cookies

Thank you

Unfortunately I deleted the history on Friday

I didn't know about the cookie check

And its not there - I've just trawled through them. There seems to be a gap when I know for sure someone was on the pc. Is it possible that they can delete certain cookies?

Oh you dont know how much I wished I knew about cookies before today

But better late than never I suppose

Thanks

totalsolutions

If you went there via a link and you did not surf for the first hit on this site who did and who else knows your password. Set up a user account with a password and it won't happen again.

You can also block that site if you wnated to.

Ask the web site admin. staff via an e-mail, they will keep logs Iam sure also the ISP has logs but they might not let you have them.

Quackers

totalsolutions wrote: »

If you went there via a link and you did not surf for the first hit on this site who did and who else knows your password. Set up a user account with a password and it won't happen again.

You can also block that site if you wnated to.

Ask the web site admin. staff via an e-mail, they will keep logs Iam sure also the ISP has logs but they might not let you have them.

Thanks

It was either my children - very doubtful as its not something that would interest them at all or the person who used my pc over the weekend. If it was the person who used my pc over the weekend then it just confuses and concerns me slightly.

I'm going to ask my girls if they did visit the site tomorrow when they are awake but I am confident it wasn't them.

The person who used my pc wont be using my pc again so I'm not too worried about blocking it - its nothing that is 'wrong' in that sense. I'm not bothered enough to contact the web site admin - I just thought if there was a way of finding out when the site was visited it would make it easier to talk to the person about it

I doubt that makes too much sense to you but it does to me - i know what i mean - honest!!

totalsolutions

Thanks for the reply but kids can do it. Just enter any alphanumeric characters in google and there you go....surfing ....all other the place <cough>
Thanks for the (whats it called) tag? line at the bottom. Must keep that in mind each morning.

Quackers

totalsolutions wrote: »

Thanks for the reply but kids can do it. Just enter any alphanumeric characters in google and there you go....surfing ....all other the place <cough>
Thanks for the (whats it called) tag? line at the bottom. Must keep that in mind each morning.

I know kids can do it.

And my girls are 15 & 13 so they are probably more computer literate than me!

I just know its very unlikely they would have looked at this site.

I'm glad you like my signature - its really worth a go

sometimes

Sooler

Quackers wrote: »

I found it by typing www.a then www.b etc in the address box

Check if the site has been added to the list of Favorites, if so there will a shortcut for it in ...

C:\Documents and Settings\your_user_name\Favorites

Right click on the shortcut and select the General tab, there will be the time and date the shortcut was created.

Alfie_E

Because you said that by clicking on the address you thought you’d overwritten all record of the previous visit to the site, I assume that just one page from this website came up in the list. If it was just one page, it could have been by chance. Ending up at a page and meaning to end up at a page are not the same thing.

• Someone called northernyuppie could pop up and say, “have you seen the one-girl-two-cups website?” Then, all sorts of people would be seeing things they didn’t think they’d want to see.
• You could click on a link that isn’t what it says it is, such as the one for this Evil Depravity.
• You could foolishly click on a link in some spam.
• A legitimate website could get hijacked. This can be due to tainted third-party banner ads. For an example of this, see the news article on The Register website called Perl.com sends visitors to !!!!!! link farm. (That one really does go where I say it does.)

As well as the history, did you also delete what Internet Explorer calls the “temporary Internet files”? As well as addresses getting stored in the history, they also get stored there. As Internet Explorer downloads pages and images, it stores them locally on the computer’s hard disc, to speed up access if they’re needed again later. That’s a much more detailed record than the history, which only records the addresses that appear in the address bar. The record of temporary files normally records the address of all textual pages, along with the addresses of all the images, Flash animations and other things contained within those pages and when they were each last accessed. It’s possible for a website to tell Internet Explorer not to store things locally, although that’s not usually done. Also, the store is of limited size, and if you do a lot of browsing later, old stuff will get thrown out in favour of newer things. To see the temporary Internet files do the following.

Internet Explorer 6

Tools → Internet Options... → Temporary Internet files → Settings... → Temporary Internet files folder → View Files...

Internet Explorer 7

Tools → Internet Options → Browsing history → Settings → Temporary Internet files → View files

From your posts, I’m guessing you use Internet Explorer 6.

(I don’t use Internet Explorer myself, so there may be omissions in the above. )

bookduck

For next time - there are probably free veriations out there but....

http://www.spectorsoft.com/products/SpectorPro_Windows/index.html?UK=true&