Unless you use Window Washer, a nifty little programme that looks for all
these items and deletes them, you can also one option to shred. This deletes
all track of where you have been and then overwrites the area on the HDD.

Trefor

Dr Trefor Roscoe
GP Beighton Health Centre
Queens Road, Beighton Sheffield S20 5JX
Tel;0114 269 5061 Fax;0114 269 7186
GP Tutor Informatics - N Trent
http://www.medical-legal.co.uk


> -----Original Message-----
> From: [log in to unmask]
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Ahmad Risk
> Sent: 13 December 1998 21:15
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Cookies - just the biscuit? (not strictly medical)
>
>
> It would be much much easier for anybody (armed with a search
> warrant) to find out
> where you've been on the Net.
>
> First, they will look at your temp internet folder or cache.
> Second, they will look at
> your history folder.  Third, and provided you have deleted the
> former 2 folders, they will
> take your hard drive to have all deleted data recovered.  In
> windows, when you delete
> something, it does not actually go away completely.  It's still there!
>
> If all that does not work, they'll just get the whole log of your
> activity from your ISP.
>
> Tough.
>
> Ahmad
>
> ---------- Original Message ----------
>
>
> >I *routinely* clear all the cookies out of my cookie folder at least
> >once a week if possible.  Apart from being an all too easy way for
> >anybody seeing where in the Internet you have been,.. (Gary Glitter?)..
> >:-(( ... they take up unnecessary space.  I leave the ones associated
> >with much-visited sites, however.
>
> >--
> >Chris Pearson
>



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