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I have just found out that there will be someone coming into the office to see if there is any "stuff on you computer that should not be there" i regulary use "ontrack`s Internet Cleanup, Ad-aware and spy boot " to clean out my activities but does win XP hold any other trasses about me and what i have download and viewed that I can erase ?

If I delete the pics and vids from my hard drive will that be enouogh ?

Any help would be very very welcome.

just the usual really, addaware spybot cookies etc, but also defrag the drive if you can, it may also be wise to uninstall the spyware progs once you`ve done as it will look sus if you got them.

lol. You could try and use ace utilities. That clears out the recent file lists in things like word and excel (among a lot of other things).

Wtf have you been looking at?!?!?

Watch out for the index.dat file in your Temporary Internet Files folder.
It keeps a record of every website that you visit.

I don`t know if it`s on XP, or if it can be deleted or not.

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Dunno if they`ll search as deep as this, but when you delete a file and empty your recycle bin you only dispose of the entry in the File Allocation Table and not the file itself, which is how people like Gary Glitter get found out.

There are utilities that completely rub all your free space and therefore get rid of these files. CyberScrub is one.

I don`t know if this is common knowledge, but I only learned about it in a lecture at university last year and was quite shocked.

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There are utilities that completely rub all your free space and therefore get rid of these files. CyberScrub is one.
Or Eraser from www.heidi.ie/eraser/download.php. It`s frighteningly easy to recover `deleted` data that hasn`t been overwritten.

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Most audits will be looking for the following:

1Unlicenced\illegal software (& that can include depending on company policy software that the IT department didnt buy\install on the PC & this would in theory include the apps used for your cleanup).

2 Pornography (could tell a few tales about what I have found on PC`s in the past, though not in same league as Glitter) found a few nice pics on a PC last week. ;)

3 Copyrighted material, music or films.

4 Spyware, virus`s & trojans.

As stated the internet cache may well hold some interesting images as well as sites visted, most of this auditing can be done in the background as a scripted scan & reviewed.

E-mail monitoring may also have been going on.

From the companies POV, AV should be updated & enforced as a matter of company policy, a firewall should be in place to block access to "interesting sites with pretty pictures".

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Watch out for the index.dat file in your Temporary Internet Files folder.
It keeps a record of every website that you visit.

I don`t know if it`s on XP, or if it can be deleted or not.

It is, and it can. They can`t be deleted from within Windows though, you have to do it from a DOS prompt (as described here).

Mike

You don`t work for a certain SE London Local Authority do you? We had them round the other day, and to say they were cluesless is an understatement. I was panicing, clearing everything from my PC, but needn`t have bothered. The people doing the audit had 2 days training, and couldn`t work out that we are on an internal network, unlike the rest of the council.

That wouldnt be Newham would it?