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Easy Removal of Windows Super Hidden Temp Files
mobrien_12:
--- Quote from: Annorax ---Which makes me wonder when they'll introduce drives with built-in thermite or other ordnance packages for OS-triggered autodestruction. It'd go over well both to prevent both classified and copyrighted data from getting into teh "wrong" hands...
--- End quote ---
And to give the **AA the opportunity to physically blow your drive to hell remotely via the next generation Sony rootkit. :)
themacuser:
--- Quote from: solemnwarning ---
--- Code: ---#!/usr/bin/perl
$hdd = $ARGV[0];
$pid = fork();
if($pid == 0) {
system("/bin/cat /dev/urandom > $hdd");
}
--- End code ---
:)
--- End quote ---
Why? Why not sudo cat /dev/urandom > /dev/hda ?
One line of bash...
para_fms:
ok, there's a few statements here that i know to be untrue, and a few others that i suspect are inaccurate.
first of all, one of the easiest ways to delete the files is to logon as another user with administrative rights. you'll now have access to the hidden files on other accounts.
windows xp/98 (and probably any other NT/9x flavor) clears the hidden files when deleting temp files through IE settings - this is not true. consider why they're hidden in the first place: i have good reason to believe, through conversations with law enforcement, that this stuff is often used against you in making a case. that's nothing new, but i would go a little further and suggest that this has something to do with why MS decided to hide them using the methods they did.
if you don't think you have content.IE* on your box, think again. if you think the directories are empty, and you use IE, think again.
it is interesting that MS didn't hide this stuff even better. they could've used rootkits. maybe we'll see that in vista/IE7??? or maybe, as others have suggested, the pretense behind all this isn't as sinister as i'm suggesting it is. still, i have worked with some law enforcement friends and that's why i have reason to believe as i do. and it doesn't stop with IE, though i'm not in a position to test OE anymore as i don't have it installed on either of my windows boxes.
here's an interesting little adventure i went on some time ago...
IE nonsense - note that this AFTER clearing the cache from within IE. OS is XP Pro, SP2.
this is while logged-on in the account i was accessing the directories from.
unfortunately, i was 'raised' on windows. it started with an OEM machine with 95 installed. then 98 and XP. although i've tried to switch to Linux multiple times, i keep returning to windows. there's a few reasons: 1) i'm very familier with it. 2) games. 3) i have yet to find a flavor of Linux that doesn't have a lot of bugs and annoyances and incredibly crappy driver/hardware support.
the last time i researched Linux (a month or so ago) i went with Suse. from what i read, it's the most 'refined' Linux OS (previously i've tried Redhat, Mandrake, Ubuntu and i forget what others). although my joystick was recognized, it didn't work. although it had a driver for my Logitech MX310 mouse (a hugely popular mouse), the side buttons didn't function. the driver for my Creative Audigy weren't nearly as good as the kxProject drivers. my ATI 9800 graphics card wasn't supported well at all. all this stuff may be easily fixed, i don't know, but it was annoying none the less.
i also CANNOT STAND windows as it is out-of-the-box. there's so much crap and annoyances present it's completely ludicrous: IE, OE, WMP, MSN, SFC, "balloon tips", cartoonish default theme, useless and security compromising services, windows update, windows security center, and on and on and on and on. then i found nLite. it's great for slipstreaming, unattended, and REMOVING all the useless, annoying, security hole riddled crap (that billy thinks everyone should have) BEFORE you install.
Aloone_Jonez:
*sigh*
Please read this thread from the beginning. :rolleyes:
MS are not spying on you and it has nothing to do with law enforcement - the FBI already have plenty of methods of recovering deleted files from your hard disk.
The temporary files and index.dat are an indexing system that allows the Windows file system to store the web addresses and other info from the net.
Windows Explorer hides them, interprets their contents and displays the URLs togeather with other info like the date and time.
The reason why they weren't deleted in Windows 95/98 when you clicked on "delete temporary Internet files" is due to MS' incompetance and poor programming.
Windows XP (don't know about ME/2000) doesn't have this problem, yes the index.dat files remain but their contents is removed.
Orethrius:
[offtopic]Incidentally, Cerberus has mirrored the Clearing and Sanitizing Matrix originally found in section 8-306 ("Use the search, Luke :cool:") of DoD 5220.22-M.[/offtopic]
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