Re: Plod Forensics (IT)

On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:33:25 +0100, Cynic <cynic_999@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:18:04 +0100, blue
<blue@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Earlier, you said "The file in question is not a normal hidden file
(i.e. with the "hidden" attribute set), but is hidden from the Windows
Explorer no matter what the settings. You can however find it using
DOS commands."

What is the DOS command?

Go to "start" then "all programs" then "Accesories" then open "command
prompt". This opens a CLI (command line interpreter) window that uses
DOS commands - you need to learn how to use it to search through
directories. The hidden file created by IE is called "index.dat" but
I do not recall which directory (folder) it is in.

Try
c:
cd /
dir index.dat /a /s

There are other files called by the same name in other directories to
confuse matters - the above commands will find all of them. You will
never see the one in question by using the explorer window whatever
settings you have, because that file is completely hidden.

Actually that would be cd \ (backslash).

I just did it and found 106 index.dat files, total 16 MB...
.

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