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[ILUG] MS hidden spy-files & how to get rid of them

[ILUG] MS hidden spy-files & how to get rid of them

John J. Allen john.allen at online.ie
Tue Apr 9 09:48:53 IST 2002


On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 08:25, Catherine Ansbro wrote:
> At our 1st Midlands LUG meeting one of the topics that arose was the secret
> hidden files on MS OS's that stored records of every website visited and
> every email sent or received, plus attachments--and stored this even after
> you had deleted it, and even after disk formatting.  A friend in Scotland
> passed me on this excellent website, which includes how one can get rid of
> these files:
> 
> http://www.fuckmicrosoft.com/content/ms-hidden-files.shtml

As good as Microsoft are at keeping track of your movements with hidden
files, registry entries, and god knows what else; even they cannot keep
the info on your local hard disk after formatting it.





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