electrojim Posted December 22, 2009 Share Posted December 22, 2009 I'm curious as to how many places on a user's hard drive browsing history is stored. Searching with Windows Explorer, it's possible to find several strangely-named folders that contain Web surfing info: saved pages, temporary files, browsing history, cookies, etc. Does CC find all of these (plus ones that you can't see!) and overwrite them, or are there "hidden" (and protected) files that retain duplicate info of whatever CC gets rid of? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kroozer Posted December 22, 2009 Share Posted December 22, 2009 Your paranoia can ebb. My best guess is yes, it gets rid of most or all of 'em. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
electrojim Posted December 22, 2009 Author Share Posted December 22, 2009 Your paranoia can ebb. My best guess is yes, it gets rid of most or all of 'em. Boy, sure hope so... Just so my wife (an IT division head for the NSA) doesn't find all that porn... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDPower Posted December 22, 2009 Share Posted December 22, 2009 Its impossible for to say whether CCleaner cleans the files you are talking about if you don't tell us what/where the files are that you mean. The obvious test would be to run CCleaner and see if the files are still there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDPower Posted December 22, 2009 Share Posted December 22, 2009 Boy, sure hope so... Just so my wife (an IT division head for the NSA) doesn't find all that porn... If your not looking at anything illegal you shouldn't have anything to worry about. If your wife can't handle the fact that blokes look at porn get a new wife Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kroozer Posted December 22, 2009 Share Posted December 22, 2009 Just so my wife (an IT division head for the NSA) doesn't find ... Afterward run Recuva and view in thumbnail mode. If you find something, just right click and BLAST IT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cc1 Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 Afterward run Recuva and view in thumbnail mode. If you find something, just right click and BLAST IT. I had an interesting discovery when I downloaded and ran a portable version of Recuva for the first time a few weeks ago. I was experimenting a bit with Recuva at that time to learn more about it and found lots of thumbnail images from web sites I, and others in my family, had visited. The surprising part was that when we surf the web, we do so while sandboxed (Sandboxie) and we secure delete the sandbox after each browsing session via CCleaner. So I was surprised to see that the pictures from visted sites are still retrievable even after secure deleting them from the sandbox. Now it doesn't bother me too much because we try to stay away from bad/risky sites, but for those who are interested in a high level of privacy, then following kroozer's above suggestion may be needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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