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Thread: Recovering Browser Cache

  1. #11
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    why install software containing spyware/adware when you can use a windows port of strings to get all the info you need?

    C:\DOCUME~1\tedob1\APPLIC~1\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\aiw5uwab.default>strings history.dat>hist.txt

    this will dump the entire contents of the history.dat file or any dat file for that matter into a text file

    http://cyberside.dyn.ee/freesoft/unix.htm
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  2. #12
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    For reading .dat files (if you are on a budget like most of us)
    use Pasco from foundstone. It does the trick very easily.
    http://www.foundstone.com/index.htm?...desc/pasco.htm

    Tedob also has the right idea, but if you are going to go ahead and get strings, might as well get a lot more at the same time. unxutils.sf.net has a bunch of goodies. just toss it in to your %PATH% and you've got basic *nix functionality. It's a lot smaller than M$ SFU, and cleaner than cygwin.

    For those of you *nix junkies like me, go here, and get some of the foundstone proggies in source.
    http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...ease_id=152410
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  3. #13
    Thanks hog...great tool, thanks for the tip. They have a decent whitepaper called Forensic Analysis of Internet Explorer Activity Files located there as well http://www.foundstone.com/pdf/wp_index_dat.pdf for anyone out there who's interested.

  4. #14
    Are you guys sure that the index.dat files etc will help here? I mean isn't he using Mozilla?
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