Program that finds and deletes hidden URL's: "Spider"

N

nead

I found this program a looong time ago. I hadn't run it in awhile and
thought I was good at clearing my browser history...but evidently IE still
finds a way to hide this stuff. "Spider" will find this trail for you very
quickly.
http://www.fsm.nl/ward/
From the site:
I discovered a privacy 'bug/feature' in Internet Explorer3/4/5 (for
important information about IE6, see history): IE stores the visited URLs
in some hidden files and when you clean your cache and history, this
information is not deleted! I wrote a software program to scan these hidden
files for URLs and to put those URLs in a file. So the user's privacy is at
stake because anyone with this program, can go to the PC ofsomebody else
and see the URLs he has visited!

later,
Sam
 
M

me

I found this program a looong time ago. I hadn't run it in
awhile and thought I was good at clearing my browser
history...but evidently IE still finds a way to hide this
stuff. "Spider" will find this trail for you very quickly.
http://www.fsm.nl/ward/
From the site:
I discovered a privacy 'bug/feature' in Internet
Explorer3/4/5 (for important information about IE6, see
history): IE stores the visited URLs in some hidden files
and when you clean your cache and history, this information
is not deleted! I wrote a software program to scan these
hidden files for URLs and to put those URLs in a file. So
the user's privacy is at stake because anyone with this
program, can go to the PC ofsomebody else and see the URLs
he has visited!

later,
Sam

FYI:
http://www.****microsoft.com/content/ms-hidden-files.shtml

J
 

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