Comments on: Find visited urls and cookies of every user in index.dat http://www.ghacks.net/2006/10/14/find-visited-urls-and-cookies-of-every-user-in-indexdat/ A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:08:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Flashhttp://www.ghacks.net/2006/10/14/find-visited-urls-and-cookies-of-every-user-in-indexdat/comment-page-1/#comment-1362546 Flash Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:50:25 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/2006/10/14/find-visited-urls-and-cookies-of-every-user-in-indexdat/#comment-1362546 Microsoft is so desperate to keep you away from Index.dat files that they keeps moving the goalposts via service packs and new versions of windows so what worked yesterday, won't work today. Some of the 'Special Hidden' folders won't show even when you use a registry hack and killing processes 'Explorer' and 'IExplorer' before you try to delete them still won't unlock the files on Windows 7 X 64 (Build 7600) and running batch files without exposing account names and passwords cannot remove these index.dat files at reboot due to the wrong windows permissions. One method that might still works is to boot-up in safe mode and then assign yourself administrator rights and then see if you can find the files to delete them The method I now use is to create a batch file to rename the subfolder below the folder containing the index.bat files and to then only copy the folders back to the original location that don't contain these Spyware files but the resultant batch files needs to be run from a separate windows account that has full administrator permissions. Click my name to learn more and to view the source code to do the job. Microsoft is so desperate to keep you away from Index.dat files that they keeps moving the goalposts via service packs and new versions of windows so what worked yesterday, won’t work today.

Some of the ‘Special Hidden’ folders won’t show even when you use a registry hack and killing processes ‘Explorer’ and ‘IExplorer’ before you try to delete them still won’t unlock the files on Windows 7 X 64 (Build 7600) and running batch files without exposing account names and passwords cannot remove these index.dat files at reboot due to the wrong windows permissions.

One method that might still works is to boot-up in safe mode and then assign yourself administrator rights and then see if you can find the files to delete them

The method I now use is to create a batch file to rename the subfolder below the folder containing the index.bat files and to then only copy the folders back to the original location that don’t contain these Spyware files but the resultant batch files needs to be run from a separate windows account that has full administrator permissions.

Click my name to learn more and to view the source code to do the job.

]]> By: Davidhttp://www.ghacks.net/2006/10/14/find-visited-urls-and-cookies-of-every-user-in-indexdat/comment-page-1/#comment-639025 David Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:52:36 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/2006/10/14/find-visited-urls-and-cookies-of-every-user-in-indexdat/#comment-639025 what about Macintosh Computer and Firefox browser. Is there an equivalent of the index. dat file? Can you retrieve cleared URLs? what about Macintosh Computer and Firefox browser. Is there an equivalent of the index. dat file? Can you retrieve cleared URLs?

]]> By: Index.dat Viewerhttp://www.ghacks.net/2006/10/14/find-visited-urls-and-cookies-of-every-user-in-indexdat/comment-page-1/#comment-466713 Index.dat Viewer Mon, 01 Sep 2008 09:35:13 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/2006/10/14/find-visited-urls-and-cookies-of-every-user-in-indexdat/#comment-466713 [...] that is running Windows you will most likely end up with dozens of files with that name. The index.dat file is used by Microsoft Internet Explorer as a database that contains cookies, urls and recently [...] [...] that is running Windows you will most likely end up with dozens of files with that name. The index.dat file is used by Microsoft Internet Explorer as a database that contains cookies, urls and recently [...]

]]> By: Johnhttp://www.ghacks.net/2006/10/14/find-visited-urls-and-cookies-of-every-user-in-indexdat/comment-page-1/#comment-305428 John Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:44:34 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/2006/10/14/find-visited-urls-and-cookies-of-every-user-in-indexdat/#comment-305428 On the last statement: 'The new Internet Explorer 7 apparently fixes this issue.' Beware! Index.dat files are now inactive and not generated with Explorer 7. Big Brother just came up with something better and more clever, and of course, he is not giving up. It will only be a matter of time until the new system is discovered, made public, and (hopefully) with solutions for deletion. On the last statement:

‘The new Internet Explorer 7 apparently fixes this issue.’

Beware! Index.dat files are now inactive and not generated with Explorer 7. Big Brother just came up with something better and more clever, and of course, he is not giving up. It will only be a matter of time until the new system is discovered, made public, and (hopefully) with solutions for deletion.

]]> By: Selectively deleting entries from you Firefox historyhttp://www.ghacks.net/2006/10/14/find-visited-urls-and-cookies-of-every-user-in-indexdat/comment-page-1/#comment-211762 Selectively deleting entries from you Firefox history Tue, 04 Dec 2007 07:05:15 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/2006/10/14/find-visited-urls-and-cookies-of-every-user-in-indexdat/#comment-211762 [...] has done a post previously on finding visited URL’s through the index.dat file for Internet Explorer, now I would venture to add to that a bit by expanding it to Firefox, and [...] [...] has done a post previously on finding visited URL’s through the index.dat file for Internet Explorer, now I would venture to add to that a bit by expanding it to Firefox, and [...]

]]> By: Siti visitati e cookies memorizzati in file nascosti di Windowshttp://www.ghacks.net/2006/10/14/find-visited-urls-and-cookies-of-every-user-in-indexdat/comment-page-1/#comment-65596 Siti visitati e cookies memorizzati in file nascosti di Windows Sun, 15 Oct 2006 21:24:16 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/2006/10/14/find-visited-urls-and-cookies-of-every-user-in-indexdat/#comment-65596 [...] [via ghacks] PUBBLICITÀ PUBBLICITÀ postato da Antonio Parziale il lunedì 16 ottobre 2006 in: [...] [...] [via ghacks] PUBBLICITÀ PUBBLICITÀ postato da Antonio Parziale il lunedì 16 ottobre 2006 in: [...]

]]> By: Filthy Jesushttp://www.ghacks.net/2006/10/14/find-visited-urls-and-cookies-of-every-user-in-indexdat/comment-page-1/#comment-65337 Filthy Jesus Sat, 14 Oct 2006 18:07:23 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/2006/10/14/find-visited-urls-and-cookies-of-every-user-in-indexdat/#comment-65337 You cold always jsut use CCleaner. http://ccleaner.com You cold always jsut use CCleaner.

http://ccleaner.com

]]> By: NAIFhttp://www.ghacks.net/2006/10/14/find-visited-urls-and-cookies-of-every-user-in-indexdat/comment-page-1/#comment-65329 NAIF Sat, 14 Oct 2006 17:41:00 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/2006/10/14/find-visited-urls-and-cookies-of-every-user-in-indexdat/#comment-65329 Thanks a lot > :) Thanks a lot > :)

]]> By: Martinhttp://www.ghacks.net/2006/10/14/find-visited-urls-and-cookies-of-every-user-in-indexdat/comment-page-1/#comment-65303 Martin Sat, 14 Oct 2006 15:21:05 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/2006/10/14/find-visited-urls-and-cookies-of-every-user-in-indexdat/#comment-65303 my link is working ;) my link is working ;)

]]> By: mrAhttp://www.ghacks.net/2006/10/14/find-visited-urls-and-cookies-of-every-user-in-indexdat/comment-page-1/#comment-65299 mrA Sat, 14 Oct 2006 15:14:04 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/2006/10/14/find-visited-urls-and-cookies-of-every-user-in-indexdat/#comment-65299 Like not working. I found it at http://www.foundstone.com/index.htm?subnav=resources/navigation.htm&subcontent=/resources/freetools.htm Interesting article Like not working. I found it at http://www.foundstone.com/index.htm?subnav=resources/navigation.htm&subcontent=/resources/freetools.htm

Interesting article

]]> By: Oliver Alexanderhttp://www.ghacks.net/2006/10/14/find-visited-urls-and-cookies-of-every-user-in-indexdat/comment-page-1/#comment-65236 Oliver Alexander Sat, 14 Oct 2006 10:36:59 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/2006/10/14/find-visited-urls-and-cookies-of-every-user-in-indexdat/#comment-65236 Whacking a link to batchfile with the content "" del /f /q "C:\Documents ...\...\index.dat" """ into the StartUp Startmenu group. That should do the job. If not the link is executed to late, then try putting a reference to the batch file in to the Registry "Run" section, where it seems to be reliably executed before Explorer.exe etc. start. Specify in the shortcut to the batchfile a "minimized" execution for speed. Thus privacy is restored whenever the system re-starts. A modification on the theme is, eg., to replace the cookies dat file with an appropriate one Whacking a link to batchfile with the content

“”
del /f /q “C:\Documents …\…\index.dat”
“”"
into the StartUp Startmenu group. That should do the job. If not the link is executed to late, then try putting a reference to the batch file in to the Registry “Run” section, where it seems to be reliably executed before Explorer.exe etc. start. Specify in the shortcut to the batchfile a “minimized” execution for speed.

Thus privacy is restored whenever the system re-starts.

A modification on the theme is, eg., to replace the cookies dat file with an appropriate one

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