uncleguido Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 Ran Recuva and noticed that every newspaper photo, including their ads showed up during a scan of my "C" drive. I read online newspapers every morning, but had no idea they were attaching junk that would "adhere" to my hd. Am I to understand that these photos/ads are imbedded forever after I view them? Is there any way to prevent this? Surely, all this junk is taking up good usable memory space. OK...I admit I'm technically challenged but had good luck so far since I bought my pc in 2006 with only a couple minor glitches; I'm aware of "cookies", add ons and pop-up ads certainly, but didn't know everything I ever scanned online stays on my pc, even stuff I don't recall having looked at, i.e., auto ads, real estate promos, entertainers and celebrities, photos of politicians, and people's photos that I don't have a clue as to their identity, not to mention all the miscellaneous icons and bits and pieces that I don't even recognize . How do I get rid of it, and can Recuva help me? Try not to laugh too hard, ok? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators DennisD Posted October 25, 2009 Moderators Share Posted October 25, 2009 Hi uncleguido, and welcome to Piriform. Try using another free Piriform product: CCleaner: All sites leave cookies, and Windows collects temp files of pages you access to make future access of these pages quicker. CCleaner deletes all that stuff from your computer. Help file here: Piriform Documents: Use the "Cleaner" feature and leave the "Issues" part alone for now, and don't beat yourself up, we all had to learn sometime. You wouldn't go far wrong by bookmarking this site, as there's a wealth of information to be gleaned, and a volunteer membership who attempt to solve every problem thrown at them, Piriform related or not. Post back if you have any problems or queries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncleguido Posted October 26, 2009 Author Share Posted October 26, 2009 Hi uncleguido, and welcome to Piriform. Try using another free Piriform product: CCleaner: All sites leave cookies, and Windows collects temp files of pages you access to make future access of these pages quicker. CCleaner deletes all that stuff from your computer. Help file here: Piriform Documents: Use the "Cleaner" feature and leave the "Issues" part alone for now, and don't beat yourself up, we all had to learn sometime. You wouldn't go far wrong by bookmarking this site, as there's a wealth of information to be gleaned, and a volunteer membership who attempt to solve every problem thrown at them, Piriform related or not. Post back if you have any problems or queries. Thanks for your response. I use CCleaner often, just this morning, and then ran Recuva for photos only; found 34,964 files, 72.0GB, all of which were junk with the exception of a few of my own photos that I've already saved to CD's. Saw no feature for deletion of all this junk. Did save a couple of samples via screen captures, just in case I need to make a point in future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators DennisD Posted October 26, 2009 Moderators Share Posted October 26, 2009 You didn't say you used CCleaner, but no worries, I'll ponder the newspaper photographs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDPower Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 You didn't say you used CCleaner, but no worries, I'll ponder the newspaper photographs. Here's my theory having noticed Recuva showing up internet pics/graphics myself, despite using CCleaner with secure delete. Assuming you have your internet cache set to a sensible value, say 80-100Mb, after a while browsing (especially if having viewed online vids) the cache will fill up and the older files in the cache will be deleted by Windows (unsecurely) to make room for new cache items. So even with running CCleaner, Recuva could still pick up plenty of pics from viewed websites that were deleted by Windows when cache got full. EDIT: Whoops, didn't realise this was an old post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Augeas Posted November 17, 2009 Moderators Share Posted November 17, 2009 Yeah, I get this too. There's stuff from yesterday's browsing (no CC use) and I'm sure I never get anywhere near my cache limits. I don't know if the browser auto-dumps this temp rubbish, it certainly appears to. The most irritating is the BBC. I always end up with pics of those pompous, self-important, supercilious, smug and insuufferable z-list celebrity cooks sniggering at me. I have to secure overwrite those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbruns Posted December 3, 2009 Share Posted December 3, 2009 Try XXXXXXXX. Also, use these two free applications: 1.) INDEX.DAT Viewer, AKA: Super WinSpy (filename = wssetup.exe) It can be downloaded at www.acesoft.net/winspy/ 2.) Index.dat Analyzer 2.5 (filename = Index.dat-setup.exe) Many sites offer this free download. Your computer tracks every site you've EVER gone to and saves it in various Index.dat files. Just deleting your history (and other such methods) will do nothing to these index.dat files. With these two applications you will be able to view the contents of the sites and delete any, or all, of these useless files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marmite Posted December 3, 2009 Share Posted December 3, 2009 Your computer tracks every site you've EVER gone to and saves it in various Index.dat files. Just deleting your history (and other such methods) will do nothing to these index.dat files. Ccleaner removes index.dat files - that's the whole point. They are not difficult to get rid of, manually or otherwise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now