Viewing Temp Internet Files

[Kim]

When I open my users' temporary internet file folder, some
of them have subfolders, and others just list the
temporary internet files directly. How do I obtain the
later, that is, have all files shown directly, rather than
showing subfolders?

TIA
Kim

 

[Josef Stalin]

When I open my users' temporary internet file folder, some
of them have subfolders, and others just list the
temporary internet files directly. How do I obtain the
later, that is, have all files shown directly, rather than
showing subfolders?

TIA
Kim

Just out of curiosity, what is that you're looking for in that rat's nest?

Uncle Josef

 

[Kim]

Occasionally, supervisors will ask me where their
employees 'have been.'

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Just out of curiosity, what is that you're looking for in that rat's nest?

Uncle Josef

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[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

You could use xxcopy.exe. It has a switch that allows you
to "flatten" a directory structure.

 

[Josef Stalin]

Occasionally, supervisors will ask me where their
employees 'have been.'

Okay, now that I know what you're looking for there are many programs out
there that will give you that information even if the temporary internet
files have been erased. You really don't want to spend hours sifting
through all of the directories. And you can even export all of the evidence
in a neat tidy little file with a few simple keystrokes. If your users are
savvy enough to destroy index.dat, well, then you're outta luck unless you
keep all of your transactions on a server.

Here's one for example:

http://www.newfreeware.com/internet/203/

Uncle Josef

 

[Josef Stalin]

Occasionally, supervisors will ask me where their
employees 'have been.'

Although my post is a tad off-topic to W2K, how can one be certain that by
examining the contents of temporary internet files or index.dat that the
person intended to go to that location at all?

1. I've personally seen an instance where index.dat was deliberately
stuffed tons of porn urls. One second the porn urls weren't there, the next
second the person looked like a sex fiend. Is this 'proof' that a person
cruised inappropriate sites?

2. What about parasites that open up undesirable sites against the user's
will? I've come a situation where a person inherited a computer that had
many been through many previous users and is now fairly infested with
parasites. The current user is now going nuts from the all of the pop-ups;
sometimes fairly nasty porn. I had the computer in the shop and it is
popping up (probably Russian) porn all over the place. Should I or the
employee be fired because it seems that I "cruised" porn sites? How would
anyone know that it was parasites and not my deliberate acts that put that
porn urls into index.dat?

Here's my prediction folks: One day, an employee is going to get fired for
seemingly cruising inappropriate sites on the Internet and be will be able
to provide rock solid proof that they did not. They'll sue the snot out of
the employer and win. This will be a landmark case and employers will then
be a lot more trepeditious about casually firing employees for surfing
inappropriate sites on the web unless they have bona fide evidence (which
index.dat is not).

 

[Kim]

Thank you both for your reply.