Scenario: my son and I were viewing some sites together (educational) , and he forgot to add them to his favorites. I delete my viewing history constantly, and did so several hours after we viewed the educational sites. Later in the day, he wants to view the site, and of course the browsing history has been wiped clean. His girlfriend types in some website (it ended in .net) and can view the history of all pages that I know I deleted as per the normal "delete cookies, delete temporary files, delete history, etc" She did not download any program. She just went to some site, and our whole web history was there! Discuss....I thought it was difficult for anyone to recover your history once you go through the normal deleting process).
Oh, no no. It's very easy to do. If you want to really delete them, you have to use a program like "CleanUp!", "CCleaner" or "Disk Cleaner". They're very thorough. J.
Again...she did not use a program. She went to some site (ended in .net) and all our visited sites were listed. So, I don't want to neccessarily delete evetything. I want to view sites I deleted. My son's girlfriend has this abilty - I wish I remembered the site name. Yes, I was dumb enough to clear my history BEFORE seeing what site she used...to view the list of deleted sites.
I TOO would like to know the name of this site. Very Interesting. The potential to go over anyone's house and instantly know every site they've been on, without downloading anything.
Well I looked around yahoo and didn't find anything like this. In fact, this isn't making a whole lot of sense. OldFella, what browser are you using ? What OS? I have a feeling she DID download some kind of program, maybe at a time before you were there, something that is keeping track of your history. It's the only thing that makes sense.
This seems extremely useful, and it would be even more useful to know how it's done. Do I understand correctly that you're not talking about going through the hard disk cache that most browsers will create?
It seems the world will never know ? OldFella seems to have forgot about WF's most interesting thread.
Theoretically, it could be a website that browses your Index.dat file, but you'd likely have to have your PC security to be VERY LAX in order for that to happen....
Sure I remember an article a month or two back, where a security hole in some browsers meant they could easily read your browsing history and cookies via javascript. Could be that. There are also Flash cookies, which don't expire unless explicitly set to do so.
Not sure of the ActionScript required - not had to code any Flash for a couple of years, so I'm rusty as hell, but you can use the settings manager Adobe has squirreled away on it's Macromedia domain
Your wife had already been contacted, she knows about the whole sordid affair and is most disappointed in you luring away your son's girlfriend, she thought that bit was a tad underhanded and perhaps unnecessary. Seriously though, I gots nuthin.
Do you have any browser toolbars installed? I have never used it so don't know if it has it as a feature, but this seems like something a tracker like Alexa could do.
For starters, you might want to type about:history in your address field. This should tell you what your browser thinks he still remembers.
