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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 33457620 United States 02/01/2013 03:47 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Do a Google search for index.dat viewers. Here are a few... [link to www.google.com (secure)] These will allow you to search your computer and actually view everything that is permanently stored in your index.dat file. Scary huh? |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 33457620 United States 02/01/2013 03:54 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | There are many free programs that will erase every single one of these index.dat files safely and securely from your PC. My personal favorite is Tracks Eraser Pro. It's fast and easy to figure out. I'm not sure if this is a free program or not, but the people in the know will know where to find a free version. Torrents..cough cough. This program not only allows you to access and delete ALL of your index.dat files, but also allows you to test it and make sure they were all deleted. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. This is a HUGE privacy violation and you should know how to properly clean your computer. Microsoft refuses to create programs that will get rid of these and locks these files on your PC so that you can't get rid of them. Fuck that. This is THE way to ensure your online privacy. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 33457620 United States 02/01/2013 03:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Doesn't seem to be getting a lot of views. This is important and it would be sweet to see this pinned, especially at a conspiracy website where people are a little more paranoid about their online activities. Idk, just wanted to help out a bit. Most people don't know this stuff. |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 33457620 United States 02/01/2013 04:11 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | After running ccleaner index.dat analizer can only find 2 files 1 google and 1 yahoo both to do with mail updates-I dont see a problem here. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25375394 Ccleaner is useless for that. Try the ones listed at the Google link I provided. Keep trying man, they are there, I promise you. Download one of the viewers and watch what pops up. Everything you have ever done on your PC is in your index.dat file. Everything. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 25375394 United Kingdom 02/01/2013 04:17 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | After running ccleaner index.dat analizer can only find 2 files 1 google and 1 yahoo both to do with mail updates-I dont see a problem here. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25375394 Ccleaner is useless for that. Try the ones listed at the Google link I provided. Keep trying man, they are there, I promise you. Download one of the viewers and watch what pops up. Everything you have ever done on your PC is in your index.dat file. Everything. your not reading me properly-ccleaner found 12 mb and deleted them. Index.dat Analizer found 2 files and nothing else. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 33457620 United States 02/01/2013 04:20 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | After running ccleaner index.dat analizer can only find 2 files 1 google and 1 yahoo both to do with mail updates-I dont see a problem here. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25375394 After reviewing this program and trying it out, it does in fact have an index.dat file eraser option in the program. Tried it to see if it works and apparently it does. My apologies. One way to find out is to run Ccleaner and then download one of the index.dat viewers to see if it worked properly. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 32899686 United States 02/01/2013 04:20 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Doesn't seem to be getting a lot of views. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 33457620 This is important and it would be sweet to see this pinned, especially at a conspiracy website where people are a little more paranoid about their online activities. Idk, just wanted to help out a bit. Most people don't know this stuff. I think its one of the best posts here ever. You defined a problem and gave a solution. Thanks I'll be working in this over the weekend...not that I have anything to hide on my pc. But ya never know nowadays with all the malware and viruses. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 33457620 United States 02/01/2013 04:21 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | After running ccleaner index.dat analizer can only find 2 files 1 google and 1 yahoo both to do with mail updates-I dont see a problem here. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25375394 Ccleaner is useless for that. Try the ones listed at the Google link I provided. Keep trying man, they are there, I promise you. Download one of the viewers and watch what pops up. Everything you have ever done on your PC is in your index.dat file. Everything. your not reading me properly-ccleaner found 12 mb and deleted them. Index.dat Analizer found 2 files and nothing else. Try a index.dat file viewer if you could and let us know if it worked or not. |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 33457620 United States 02/01/2013 04:23 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Doesn't seem to be getting a lot of views. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 33457620 This is important and it would be sweet to see this pinned, especially at a conspiracy website where people are a little more paranoid about their online activities. Idk, just wanted to help out a bit. Most people don't know this stuff. I think its one of the best posts here ever. You defined a problem and gave a solution. Thanks I'll be working in this over the weekend...not that I have anything to hide on my pc. But ya never know nowadays with all the malware and viruses. To me, at least, it's not so much as erasing anything "bad" you've done on the net, but your privacy alone, no matter what you've done on the net should be of top priority to everybody. Thanks for posting, glad I could be of help. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 33457620 United States 02/01/2013 04:24 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I ran ccleaner and still had a bunch of crap in my index.dat files. Quoting: stinkbug After running the program Privacy Mantra, should we delete everything? Or just the index.dat files? I would delete everything. I'm pretty sure that program won't mess up anything permanently on your PC. Usually you may have to adjust private settings back to where you had them before but it won't erase things like bookmarks etc. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 33457620 United States 02/01/2013 04:25 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I ran ccleaner and still had a bunch of crap in my index.dat files. Quoting: stinkbug After running the program Privacy Mantra, should we delete everything? Or just the index.dat files? Also with that Mantra program, I tried it out and it doesn't seem to get rid of everything like Tracks Eraser Pro does. One way to find out is to download one of the viewers and see what pops up. |
stinkbug User ID: 1375508 United States 02/01/2013 04:27 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I ran ccleaner and still had a bunch of crap in my index.dat files. Quoting: stinkbug After running the program Privacy Mantra, should we delete everything? Or just the index.dat files? I would delete everything. I'm pretty sure that program won't mess up anything permanently on your PC. Usually you may have to adjust private settings back to where you had them before but it won't erase things like bookmarks etc. famous last words. LOL okay, let me see what happens. thanks for this post, btw. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 33457620 United States 02/01/2013 04:28 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | My personal favorite is Tracks Eraser Pro. It's fast and easy to figure out. I'm not sure if this is a free program or not, but the people in the know will know where to find a free version. Torrents..cough cough. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 33457620 United States 02/01/2013 04:30 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I ran ccleaner and still had a bunch of crap in my index.dat files. Quoting: stinkbug After running the program Privacy Mantra, should we delete everything? Or just the index.dat files? I would delete everything. I'm pretty sure that program won't mess up anything permanently on your PC. Usually you may have to adjust private settings back to where you had them before but it won't erase things like bookmarks etc. famous last words. LOL okay, let me see what happens. thanks for this post, btw. No problem. I should have given a more concrete answer. lol I have ran this program multiple times and all it does is resets my Firefox browser to the point where I have to re-enable all of my addons and bookmarks toolbar. Everything else remains unchanged. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 22427336 United States 02/01/2013 04:34 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I dunno...I ran it and the Index.dat viewer program and it only picked up my files and cookies from Internet Explorer (shit) that I use for work purposes. It picked up nothing from Firefox, where I use Ghostery and private browsing with cookies off, etc. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 25375394 United Kingdom 02/01/2013 04:34 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | After running ccleaner index.dat analizer can only find 2 files 1 google and 1 yahoo both to do with mail updates-I dont see a problem here. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25375394 Ccleaner is useless for that. Try the ones listed at the Google link I provided. Keep trying man, they are there, I promise you. Download one of the viewers and watch what pops up. Everything you have ever done on your PC is in your index.dat file. Everything. your not reading me properly-ccleaner found 12 mb and deleted them. Index.dat Analizer found 2 files and nothing else. Tried 2 different dat file analizers and both found the same 2 files google and yahoo that ccleaner left alone-you cannot just delete anything-ccleaner knows what its doing and can be personalised not to delete certain entries if you wish. Try a index.dat file viewer if you could and let us know if it worked or not. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 33457620 United States 02/01/2013 04:37 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I dunno...I ran it and the Index.dat viewer program and it only picked up my files and cookies from Internet Explorer (shit) that I use for work purposes. It picked up nothing from Firefox, where I use Ghostery and private browsing with cookies off, etc. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 22427336 Internet Explorer is the one that saves everything. That is where all files are located. You did it right. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 25375394 United Kingdom 02/01/2013 04:37 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 33457620 Ccleaner is useless for that. Try the ones listed at the Google link I provided. Keep trying man, they are there, I promise you. Download one of the viewers and watch what pops up. Everything you have ever done on your PC is in your index.dat file. Everything. your not reading me properly-ccleaner found 12 mb and deleted them. Index.dat Analizer found 2 files and nothing else. Tried 2 different dat file analizers and both found the same 2 files google and yahoo that ccleaner left alone-you cannot just delete anything-ccleaner knows what its doing and can be personalised not to delete certain entries if you wish. Try a index.dat file viewer if you could and let us know if it worked or not. try again Tried 2 different dat file analizers and both found the same 2 files google and yahoo that ccleaner left alone-you cannot just delete anything-ccleaner knows what its doing and can be personalised not to delete certain entries if you wish. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 33457620 United States 02/01/2013 04:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 33457620 Ccleaner is useless for that. Try the ones listed at the Google link I provided. Keep trying man, they are there, I promise you. Download one of the viewers and watch what pops up. Everything you have ever done on your PC is in your index.dat file. Everything. your not reading me properly-ccleaner found 12 mb and deleted them. Index.dat Analizer found 2 files and nothing else. Tried 2 different dat file analizers and both found the same 2 files google and yahoo that ccleaner left alone-you cannot just delete anything-ccleaner knows what its doing and can be personalised not to delete certain entries if you wish. Try a index.dat file viewer if you could and let us know if it worked or not. Then you did it right. The only reason why I say Ccleaner doesn't work is because I tried it and still found files on my PC afterwards. If you're comfortable with one program, that's up to you. I run multiples to make absolutely sure. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 22427336 United States 02/01/2013 04:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I dunno...I ran it and the Index.dat viewer program and it only picked up my files and cookies from Internet Explorer (shit) that I use for work purposes. It picked up nothing from Firefox, where I use Ghostery and private browsing with cookies off, etc. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 22427336 Internet Explorer is the one that saves everything. That is where all files are located. You did it right. Oh thank you. I fucking hate internet explorer |
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