OpenEuphoria

Re: DOS undocumented feature

• Posted by Juergen Luethje <jluethje at gmx.de> Jul 27, 2002
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Kat <gertie at PELL.NET> wrote:

> On 26 Jul 2002, at 22:55, Juergen Luethje wrote:

> <snip>

>> I want to delete the INDEX.DAT files that are created by the Internet
>> Explorer for privacy. Even if you delete all the files that can normally
>> be deleted in the Cookies, Temporary Internet Files and History folders,
>> the remaining INDEX.DAT files contain information about websites you have
>> visited, cookies you have received, etc.
>> 
>> See for instance
>> http://www.purgeie.com/indexdat.htm
>> http://www.swanksoft.com/historykill/cookies-dat.gif
>> (There may be some more detailed information about this topic somewhere
>> on the net.)

> Web companies are getting sneakier about how to track you. Dynamic 
> scripting the server allows them to tag all href's with a unique id, so
> anything
> you access from them after the first url is tracked, without setting any 
> cookies or looking in the index.dat file. And on the first url there are lots
> of
> "src=" tags to advertisers, etc with those unique referrer tags. And there are
>
> interesting non-standard header lines too, not just Cookie or ETags.

> Kat

In contrast to the dynamic techniques that you describe, the information
in the INDEX.DAT files is stored on my hard disk. Therefore web companies
can read from there, what websites I have visited a week ago or so, is this
right?

Regards,
   Juergen