A colleague of mine has offered to fix my pc for me. I regularly delete cookies and temporary internet files but am just wondering if there is any other ways for him to trace what websites I have visited? Might have recently visited a couple of websites that I wouldn't want work friends knowing about!!! (If you catch my drift lol)
2007-05-21 01:04:59 · 7 answers · asked by mrsjingles26 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
Make sure that you have the temporary files and cookies cleaned out (like you said you did), and also go to your history (press Control-H) and delete all of that. I don't know if that's what you meant when you said you deleted temporary files, but if it wasn't then your History is your most obvious way of keeping track of where you've been. Other than that there shouldn't be any way of him tracking you (unless he was stalking you...ooo that's bad.)
2007-05-21 01:08:49 · answer #1 · answered by Matt B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If your colleague has any expertise with computers then all he has to do is load the correct software and then he will be able to recover deleted files. In the future when you want to delete a file[s] Press Shift Before you Press Delete and Keep Pressing Shift until the Window opens informing you that the file[s] is Permently removed. For more advice go to
http://www.hddrecovery.com.au/downloads/200ways.pdf.
2007-05-21 11:27:17 · answer #2 · answered by D G 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you delete the history, delete the cookies, clear the address bar, and delete the temporaty files, there is no practical way that a person could determine where you have been.
If he were to use forensic software and exterme measures, he could recover the information. But the average geek does not have the expertise to do that easily.
2007-05-21 08:13:23 · answer #3 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As long as your PC has temp files, history and cookies deleted it shouldnt be a problem...
what ya been looking at then, HMMMM!?
2007-05-21 08:08:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you're really worried, try downloading CCleaner (Google it), a great program for general PC file cleaning & covering your tracks.
2007-05-21 15:58:11 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If he knows about computers I think he would be able to see what sites you have been visiting.. I hope for your sake it's nothing too dodgy!!
2007-05-21 08:16:57 · answer #6 · answered by Diablo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
clear history, cookies and temp files .. and clear recent document list too. that should help.
the desire to hide/delete means that you are doing something wrong... hahaha.. !!!!
2007-05-21 08:12:39 · answer #7 · answered by Kumar 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋