Re: 'Child porn too easy to locate'

On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:50:03 +0100, "M.I.5¾"
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"Mr Nobody" <me@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 10:24:33 +0100, "M.I.5¾"
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"tiscali" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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And how easy is it to inadvertantly download porn? After this case I
checked all the hidden folders on my pc and found images of extremely
hard
adult porn that I had no idea were there - I never accessed those sites!
Seems evey pop-up you delete leaves the images in hidden files in your
pc!
It's really scary.

Very easy. An image can be included in any web page but specified to
display in a 1 pixel square block. Although the image won't appear on the
page (except as a dot), it is downloaded into the cache. But as you note,
even if you delete it from the cache, it is retained in the really hidden
folders that Windows won't let you access, even if you know where they
are.

http://www.fuckmicrosoft.com/content/ms-hidden-files.shtml

That appears to be mainly about the history of web addresses you have
accessed - kept in the index.dat files which don't have an efficient
method of deletion/compacting.

I don't think it's true that files (e.g. JPEGS) are routinely kept
after you have deleted them from your IE cache - except in the free
space of your HD until overwritten.

Are you really really sure about that?

Where would it keep them all? Graphics files are big, compared to
history references. And why would it bother in the first place?
There's always the chance copies of a few isolated files will be kept
in temporary folders, e.g. Local Settings\Temp but those can be got
rid of with Disk Cleanup.

It's *references* to Internet addresses and the *locations* of cached
files that may be kept inadvertently, as there are likely to be
multiple copies of these in indexing files for efficiency of access.

--
Mr Nobody
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