Ahmad Risk wrote:
>
> A doctor (in the West Country?) was recently arrested and charged in
> connection with obscene material.
>
> Part of the charge was that he either received or transmitted
> pornographic material through the Internet.
>
> Some of the evidence came from examining his hard disk.
>
> Now, I am not suggesting that you do that, but, you may come
> across an adult site by accident or mistake.
>
> If you are using MSIE, it keeps *everything* for a long time. All
> the pages and files you visited are kept in the subdirectory of
> windows called 'temporary internet files'. BTW, this directory also
> holds some very large files, for example, any downloads you may
> have done, thus taking up a lot of disk space.
>
> This is quite separate from the cache files that are also kept by
> Netscape.
>
> Empty it now!
>
Very good advice - I tried pointing MSIE at some naughty sites to see if
the ratings worked. They do....but disabling ratings kept the pictures
on the HD for easy access by the kids....oops!
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