Computer experts...?
Computer experts can find out your user history, long after you've deleted it.
1) Is this true
2) Is it complicated
3) How does one get rid of this history, then.
4) How much disk space does it take up
Computer experts can find out your user history, long after you've deleted it.
1) Is this true
2) Is it complicated
3) How does one get rid of this history, then.
4) How much disk space does it take up
The AnswerMan ? (J.L.A)
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1)true.
2)no
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Christos :)
1) Yes, it is ... but is not always possible
2) Depending, how long ago you have deleted your history (& all the other tracks on your computer - history is not the only way to find out where have you been) it can be veryyyy complicated.
3) Well, it's quite difficult to get rid of your history! Maybe that only way to do & be sure about it is to get a new hard-drive and destroy the old one (burn it or something...). Anyway, there utilities that can erase your tracks. However, the will only "virtually" delete you history - that means they it can be recovered "easily"-. However, as time passes by this is getting more difficult as the deleted files will be corrupted or overwritten. Here the job is really "hard". Note that by defragmenting your disk it makes the job of persons who will try to recover your deleted history/tracks/files quite "difficult".
4) How much disk space is taken up by what ... the history? (it's limited according to your browser settings - i.e. 20 days - then it the old history would be "deleted" to leave some space to the new one).
ExoticKiss
1. Yes
2. Depends on the person and what they know
3. Windows Washer does a bleaching of the systems where its perminatly deletes only associated files affiliated with the files, and if you know your way around the command prompt or able to program through the command prompt you can perminatly delete them there. A format will also not perminatly delete all files you must add a ( /u ) when formating and setting up the drive.
4. It depends on how many files there are, How long you have had the computer, How big your hard drive is.. it could be a number of things.
Dragosh
They may look in your cookies if you haven't deleted them, also if you use a browser with a javascript console, it's sure to have a history of some poorly written sites.
If they run a file recovery program on the folder where the browser caches pages they will get a good ideea on what site youve been, and that's mostly it, so to answer your question
1) it can be done
2) depends on your computer knowledge
3) delete cookies, history, temporary files, the caching folder and copy random stuff inside it to permanently delete files
4) it depends on the browser you're using, some might stack up until you don't have space on your drive, others might stick to a limit and start copying over the older files.
AbiusX
Not true, But not totally!
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Also, You can delete history. Many windows apps have got their own History. By the way, even deleting History doesnt mean that it is no longer available! You should incinerate them.
They pick little disk space!, don't wrry