How do people like probation officers, police, etc, view what you have been looking at on your computer? What are the exact steps to see the website history for the entire computer?
2006-09-30 17:07:20 · 12 answers · asked by sharid64 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
OK...this is my home computer, and I don't want to erase history, I want to view history of another user acct, that is password protected, the only way I know to do this is to reset or erase password, which is not an option...any other ideas?
2006-10-03 06:27:28 · update #1
Yes, my search is a google bar or yahoo, and I just need some help, thanks.
2006-10-03 06:31:03 · update #2
get a key logger it will recor all the keys u hit including passwords
2006-10-07 19:51:03 · answer #1 · answered by psycho 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pretty much assume anything you do can be monitored remotely,locally, or anywhere else around you. Your monitor can be read from across the street with the curtains drawn. Your data can be seen pretty much anywhere on hundreds of miles of cable (yes, even fiber). Your hard drive, if not smashed to tiny bits and melted down, will give up its secrets if you try hard enough. These days, they can look at the disk electrons and be able to piece back together parts of information many times over.
Now the real question:
What are you doing to make anyone care to do that.
Nobody is going to be doing all of that over some minor crime. It takes a lot of time and money. So clearing your browser cache, history, and maybe even a 1-3 overwrite of slack space and blank nodes should be plenty if you're just worried about someone stealing your computer and making you look bad.
If you really did do something wrong, covering it up can be detected as well, which will just encourage the use of the other techniques.
In other words, be a good person and if you know it's wrong, stop.
2006-10-05 22:39:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you delete files the data is still stored on your computer. This is even AFTER you empty your recycling bin.
What happens is that the data is stored on an empty spot of the drive, until you have put enough data on the drive that it gets purged (may not ever happen for the average user). But there are ways to get around this (read on).....
Keep in mind there are plenty of free forensics programs that can sniff out bytes of deleted data. If you're REALLY not careful there are entire undelete programs (freeware).
If you have something to hide, get a wiping utility that wipes your drive (and it's free space) at 7-8 passes. It takes all night to run, but it's up to the Military standards. And you can find wiping utilities for free on a google search (sorry, I'm lazy).
If sh!t has really hit the fan, drill 6 holes in a circle around your harddrive, that way only VERY SPECIALIZED people could EVER interpret what you had. (Basically, it wouldn't happen unless you were Osama himself).
Last but not least, don't download porn at work and you won't have this problem, hehe :)
If you're just wanting to clear your history fast, I would recommend Crap Cleaner. It's free and 1 push of a button!
Here's the link:
www.ccleaner.com
2006-09-30 17:28:18 · answer #3 · answered by Pyratas 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is almost impossible to clear all information from the computer. You leave trails that are called footprints. when someone hacks your computer even they leave footprints. There are log files for many various events that happen on your computer for various reasons. Some are for trouble shooting issues. Wiping out your hard drive and rebuilding won't help either. You can still recover files on a PC.
Government computers will go through several high level shreddings sessions to rid them of secure information that could be recovered.
Now, with that said... if all you want is to prevent immediate history and internet temp files from being accessed by anyone.. you can turn off the Internet Temp files by going to
In internet explore window
click on Tools / Internet options / Advanced tab / scroll down to the security section and check the delete Internet Temp files upon closing.
Next go to Content Tab and click on the Auto Complete
Uncheck all the boxes. You should uncheck the forms and passwords for privacy protection anyway
Then go to then General tab, turn the history files to keep number from default of 20 to 0
Make sure you clean out your windows temp files as well.
You may also want to download the ISystem Wiper which is a free tool that allows you to clean out all these files including the Index Files for Internet activity. The index files can not be deleted like they use to with older operating systems.
This downloads and install in seconds you can choose to have it run before or after you close down or start up.
To delete the index files completely. You must run this then shut down completely. Rebooting will not always do it.
Good luck
http://www.iisoftware.net/index.php?clean.html
One note... if your breaking policies at work... your computer means nothing the firewall the company has will document all internet activity coming and going to your computer and most likely with your logon name.
They may also have an email content filtering system that controls your email as well. You may think you deleted the emails, but think again. The emails are removed from your inbox and are placed in an email vault for future rreference/reporting.
2006-09-30 17:32:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-08-29 09:53:03 · answer #5 · answered by sykes 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just wondering if any of the people answering this questions has considered that someone may just want to know this. To check say on a boyfriend/girlfriend? No, I guess they hadn't thought of that!
I'd love to know the answer to this question myself 'for that purpose'
2006-10-06 06:19:46 · answer #6 · answered by Jas 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What browser? Internet Explorer?
2006-09-30 17:10:00 · answer #7 · answered by Bob 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are using firefox, i suggest goinging to tools->Clear Private Data and that might help.
2006-09-30 17:12:48 · answer #8 · answered by Sean R 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they either check your browser's history or they have monitoring software installed in your computer
2006-09-30 17:10:09 · answer #9 · answered by Chris™ 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They have to be sitting at your computer to do that. At least legally they do......
2006-09-30 17:16:14 · answer #10 · answered by unitedf1rst 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋