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  • no actully you can get to them if there is not security settings on the computer that will not allow you to. You have cookies, and a history folder, and a temporary internet files. They all indicate where you have been on the internet if thats what you are worried about. You can find them in your hard drive under the owner in documents and applications or you can simply search for them if you really want to see them or you can delete them from the internet options in control pannel. This assumes you have windows XP.
  • Yes and no ... the files are there but I CAN get into them ... the ones I can not get into are the ones on my internet service provider's server computer, they also show my internet history but I can not access them.
  • In addition to cookies, history folder, and temporary internet files on your computer there are: 1) Registry entries, thousands of little pieces of data saved in the Windows Registry database. 2) A dozen or two system files (like C:IO.SYS) that are marked as "hidden, read-only, system files". 3) Boot sectors contain data that is outside of the filesystem, and can be modified without changing any files. 4) Tail data, or data encoded into the unused portions of small files. (If your block size is 4K but you create a 1K file, Windows will allocate 4K for the file and leave 3K unused. That unused space is often used by viruses or programs to save hidden data, where Windows cannot detect it). 5) Certain directories that Windows itself hides from all users, no matter if they are marked as "hidden, read-only, system" or otherwise. The operating system function calls specifically hide these by their name, and the directories can only be used by specially written Microsoft programs. The directories won't show up on any directory listing, ever, but they are there. 6) Keyboard loggers operate outside of the operating system and are very difficult to detect. They save every keystroke you type, and occasionally a screenshot of what you're looking at. The data is saved completely outside the file system. There is no file to delete, so it's very difficult to delete them. 7) Some programs will change your existing partitions on the hard drive, to add a small one just for their own use, and hide it from being seen by all the usual partition-managing software. If your C: and D: volumes are both on one hard disk, they would shrink them a little bit, and insert a new volume E:, that only they can see and use. 8) Using steganography, some programs will save data inside a .jpg picture or .mpg movie that it finds on your computer. The picture or movie still works like normal, but it's just a little bigger because some encrypted data has been mingled inside the picture. There are several other ways programs can hide data on your computer, but these are the most common ones I've read about.

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