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Monika
Monday, 20 August 2007 19:00
When you surf the Internet all your online activities, like the places you have visited, your bank account, important private information, credit card number, passwords... are logged on your computer into so called ''index.dat'' files and can be read by anyone.
You're probably not aware of this but when you delete a file, it's not really deleted. Windows simply moves it to a special area on your hard drive where anyone with a file undelete software can restore those files and see what you've been up to.Windows logs user activity in several locations of which the most important ones are:
- index.dat files which log users Internet activity such as the addresses of visited websites, a copy of those sites and received cookies.
- UserAssist registry key which logs local activities such as files which have been opened.
Windows provides no functionality to clear those logs.
Other areas where user activity tracks are left include files searched, documents opened, memory contents saved to pagefile (swapfile), etc.
PCMesh Internet Cleanup clears all of those tracks with a single click.
PC Mesh Internet and Disk Cleanup includes an index.dat viewer to let you read the complete contents of index.dat files before deletion.
PC Mesh Internet and Disk Cleanup clears index.dat files, Windows Temp directory, junk files, Recycle Bin and Recent Documents folder so no tracks are left from you after you have used the PC and helps you keep your privacy. Cleaning your computer ensures a problem-free Windows operation as well.
PC Mesh Internet and Disk Cleanup supports MS Internet Explorer and all Mozilla-based browsers; and runs on Windows XP and Windows Vista.
Read more about PC Mesh Internet and Disk Cleanup
http://www.pcmesh.com/index.dat.htmÂ
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