IE history shows all files accessed on local computer (not just ones opened with IE)

blatantrereg

IE appears to keep a record of all files accessed on the local computer. Look in your browsing history - they are in the "Computer" folder.

Strange one. Don't recall noticing it before. Could not find a way to disable that online. Running W8/IE10.

Posted this in AH to facilitate the **** jokes.

SebBerkovich

Who still uses IE?

Alter-Ego

You can turn that off by chrome/firefox/opera.

blatantrereg

Alter-Ego wrote: »

You can turn that off by chrome/firefox/opera.

Not unless you uninstall IE. It doesn't have to be running to store it.

Banjo String

SebBerkovich wrote: »

Who still uses IE?

Looks like the OP does anyway.:cool:

Millions of others too.

Alter-Ego

blatantrereg wrote: »

Not unless you uninstall IE. It doesn't have to be running to store it.

IE can be uninstalled from W8 very easily.

http://www.howtogeek.com/117166/how-to-uninstall-internet-explorer-10-in-windows-8/

mathie

SebBerkovich wrote: »

Who still uses IE?

Lots of people i.e. IE users.

kylith

Delete system32. That'll fix it.

Czarcasm

blatantrereg wrote: »

IE appears to keep a record of all files accessed on the local computer. Look in your browsing history - they are in the "Computer" folder.

Strange one. Don't recall noticing it before. Could not find a way to disable that online. Running W8/IE10.

Posted this in AH to facilitate the **** jokes.

Download a program called CCleaner from here-

http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner

CCleaner is a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. Additionally it contains a fully featured registry cleaner. But the best part is that it's fast (normally taking less than a second to run) and contains NO Spyware or Adware!

My wife swears by it! :pac:

CrazyRabbit

Think that's bad? In earlier versions of Windows, there was a .dat file which stored the url of every website you ever visited. It also kept details of mail from Outlook.
It was hidden, there was no easy way to clear this & it was permanent.

http://www.softcows.com/windows_washer_delete_indexdat.htm

Lightbulb Sun

SebBerkovich wrote: »

Who still uses IE?

The new version of Internet Explorer is very good actually. It's up there speed wise with Chrome now. Microsoft must have been tired of everyone taking the piss out of it and put some work into it!

Kichote

notorious insecure browser has security problem shocker

corktina

you can get special software to solve that

just go to www.wipeoutmyporn.com

PogMoThoin

Lightbulb Sun wrote: »

The new version of Internet Explorer is very good actually. It's up there speed wise with Chrome now. Microsoft must have been tired of everyone taking the piss out of it and put some work into it!

Pity about it's poor HTML5 support, although it's the first version to actually have any support
http://html5test.com/results/desktop.html

Grayson

SebBerkovich wrote: »

Who still uses IE?

I do. In work all my internal sites are access with it. Chrome is used for external work/college related sites and opera (yes I use opera) is used for personal browsing. So for example, this is being posted from opera.

JD DABA

That porn isn't mine.
Someone must be using my computer while I go for coffee.

Yes I go sometimes like to go out for a coffee at 2.30am.

Yes it takes me between 5 and 30 mins to get coffee.

Capt'n Midnight

windows and windows programs leave stuff everywhere

ccleaner and such can't clean down simply because no-one knows where all the stuff is, things like the ID of every USB drive you've ever used , crap in the swapfile , deleted files that haven't yet been overwritten


the only way to clean windows is nuke and start again, and nuke means proper low level format which will take between 2 and 48 hours.

corktina

JD DABA wrote: »

That porn isn't mine.
Someone must be using my computer while I go for coffee.

Yes I go sometimes like to go out for a coffee at 2.30am.

Yes it takes me between 5 and 30 mins to get coffee.

ah yes 5 or 30 minutes...the difference between "a quick cup of coffee" and "an extra-tall grand Latte."...often the first is more satisfying

Capt'n Midnight

or just switch off your firewall and then you have plausible deniability as to the traffic from your machine

AllGunsBlazing

Switch to Ubuntu. Windows is on its last legs anyway, not to mention ridiculously over priced.

stimpson

Lightbulb Sun wrote: »

The new version of Internet Explorer is very good actually. It's up there speed wise with Chrome now. Microsoft must have been tired of everyone taking the piss out of it and put some work into it!

Balls. I have to use it in work and its as buggy as I expected. Fresh install of win8 in Feb and already IE slows to a crawl with a dozen tabs open. It's latest trick this week was an invisible band about an inch wide on the top of the window that wouldn't go away without a restart. Useless piece of crap.

danniemcq

stimpson wrote: »

Balls. I have to use it in work and its as buggy as I expected. Fresh install of win8 in Feb and already IE slows to a crawl with a dozen tabs open. It's latest trick this week was an invisible band about an inch wide on the top of the window that wouldn't go away without a restart. Useless piece of crap.

try being stuck with ie6 at work.

even Microsoft have asked for users to uninstall but here we are one of the biggest companies in the world using ie6

Czarcasm

AllGunsBlazing wrote: »

Switch to Ubuntu. Windows is on its last legs anyway, not to mention ridiculously over priced.

Are you saying Ubuntu and other Linux distros aren't adopting big brother style tactics? I think you'll be disappointed to learn-

http://foxtrot7security.blogspot.ie/2013/04/ubuntu-linux-improving-privacy-and.html


Ubuntu isn't the be-all solution to every windows problem, and thinking so is quite frankly childish. There are many reasons why windows is used in the front end corporate environment and Linux is used in the background, but hobbyist distros are doing Linux adoption no favors with their lack of standards and their unstructured approach to design where two identical Linux distros can operate completely differently depending on what the user wants.

That ideology doesn't work in a corporate environment of thousands of computers that are all expected to perform in a uniform fashion. Quite frankly such individualised front end customisation would be any sysadmin's worst nightmare from a security point of view as well as from an administration point of view.

That's why like the poster above, a lot of companies, even large multinational organisations, are still using Windows XP and IE6, because migrating to another system can be a costly nightmare, and right now companies aren't looking to splash the cash in a recession, so they'll stick with what just works.

Capt'n Midnight

AllGunsBlazing wrote: »

Switch to Ubuntu. Windows is on its last legs anyway, not to mention ridiculously over priced.

windows is essentially free unless you choose to upgrade or build your own bare bones system.

Ubuntu have jumped the shark with the glut of inexplicable User Interface changes in recent years. I don't know of anyone willingly using unity. And Gnome 3 also falls into that category.