[OT] Are you being tracked online?

Darrin Drader · Jan 4, 2003

Great, so Microsoft can find out exactly how boring my life really is. I don't suppose they're into reading half-finished RPG manuscripts.

haiiro · Jan 4, 2003

Alzrius said:
In the interest of making as much data as possible about this subject available to people perusing this thread (since I think this is a very important issue) how much do Ad-aware and PurgeIE cost? (and where can the former be obtained?)

Ad-aware is free, and comes from http://www.lavasoft.nu.

Dragongirl · Jan 4, 2003

PurgeIE can be found here
http://www.tucows.com/preview/195411.html

Actually they are shareware but you can get a trial version for free.

Horacio · Jan 4, 2003

You can always use another browser, like the wonderful Opera ( www.opera.com ), and then IE will have no power over you

Dragongirl · Jan 4, 2003

Horacio said:
You can always use another browser, like the wonderful Opera ( www.opera.com ), and then IE will have no power over you

Even you have to switch to IE sometimes because Opera does not work on every site or program.

Horacio · Jan 4, 2003

Dragongirl said:
Even you have to switch to IE sometimes because Opera does not work on every site or program.

Horacio blushes

Well, as you know, you're right. Some sites, those specially coded to IE singularities won't work well. But only a few.

mmu1 · Jan 4, 2003

I just went through using PurgeIE, and you would not believe the difference it made in IE's response time. For whathever reason, with the thousands of cookies and temp file info going back years everything seems to be loading several times faster... Hmm.

Still, here's hoping I didn't get rid of anything vital... Oh well, the computer's getting temperamental and about due for a format c: anyway....

hong · Jan 4, 2003

KingOfChaos said:
This isn't adware, though..it's a crappy setting Microsoft added to Windows so that if your computer was ever seized for illegal activities that all that you have done online would be readily available.

Someone needs to cut down on the little blue pills, methinks.

It's a rather nasty way of doing things and it also slows your computer down quite a bit by cluttering up your hard drive with massive text files. In fact, one of the index.dat files in my history folder that was set to secret mode was almost 200 MBs in size. How's that for screwed up?

I suggest everyone download a copy of PurgeIE in order to get rid of these files every once and a while.

I suggest you figure out the existence of the "system" file attribute, before ranting about things you know nothing about.

Code:

<span style="font-size:x-small; color:white">
C:\Documents and Settings\hong\Local Settings>dir /as
 Volume in drive C is LOCALDISK
 Volume Serial Number is 905E-92C2

 Directory of C:\Documents and Settings\hong\Local Settings

17/09/2002  03:27 AM    <DIR>          History
17/09/2002  03:27 AM    <DIR>          Temporary Internet Files
04/01/2003  01:20 PM                62 desktop.ini
               1 File(s)             62 bytes
               2 Dir(s)  17,158,497,792 bytes free

C:\Documents and Settings\hong\Local Settings>cd "Temporary Internet Files"

C:\Documents and Settings\hong\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files>dir /as
 Volume in drive C is LOCALDISK
 Volume Serial Number is 905E-92C2

 Directory of C:\Documents and Settings\hong\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files

17/09/2002  03:27 AM    <DIR>          .
17/09/2002  03:27 AM    <DIR>          ..
20/11/2002  01:07 AM    <DIR>          Content.IE5
17/09/2002  03:27 AM                67 desktop.ini
               1 File(s)             67 bytes
               3 Dir(s)  17,158,497,792 bytes free

C:\Documents and Settings\hong\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files>cd Content.IE5

C:\Documents and Settings\hong\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5>dir
 Volume in drive C is LOCALDISK
 Volume Serial Number is 905E-92C2

 Directory of C:\Documents and Settings\hong\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5

04/01/2003  05:35 PM         5,980,160 index.dat
               1 File(s)      5,980,160 bytes
               0 Dir(s)  17,158,497,792 bytes free

C:\Documents and Settings\hong\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5>
</span>

hong · Jan 4, 2003

And here's a pic showing just where IE's cache is, on Windows XP/2000 with a multiuser setup. Delete the folder, and everything's gone.

Dareoon Dalandrove · Jan 4, 2003

this is sorta related so i think it's appropraite to ask. The linux kernal i guess that it is called is free? and this is the basics of the os? so linux is a free os but if you want support you can buy it from a company. Is that right? I know that it is suppose to open source, so you can alter it how ever you want. i don't really care for Microsoft and if someone in the know could explain it all to me it would be great.

From what I understand it's better the the OGL but for an OS

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