Microsofts Really Hidden Files

If you run any version of Windows there are files and folders on your computer that Microsoft has tried extremely hard to keep secret. Inside these folders you will find two major things: Microsoft Internet Explorer has not and will not be clearing your browsing history after you have instructed it to do so, and Microsoft's Outlook Express has not and will not be deleting your e-mail correspondence after you've erased them from your Deleted Items bin. (This also includes all incoming and outgoing file attachments.) And believe me, that's not even the half of it.

If you have any feelings on this subject feel free to express them. And by the way FVckMicrosoft!

ps. Thanks to the r1ddler for writing the doc "Microsofts Really Hidden Files" that can be found at http://****microsoft.com

I believe there's a post originaly like this:

http://www.antionline.com/showthread...hreadid=232266

I think that's it... pretty sure. It was a good read and find. Thanks for the reminder though.

Thanks for that. I tried to find a thread that deals with this and didnt find much. So then i added mine. Only after i realised that there were about six threads that deal with this subject when they were displayued as similar to mine.

Thanks for your input. :)

well just think with a good cleaner you can rid yourself of these hassles or even a good reformat once in a while. and people wonder why microserf was sued . i think gates should have paid more and had stiffer punishment.

Remember, however, that most formatting utilities do not zero-fill the hard drive, or turn all values to zero. If the drive isn't 'wiped' with a true format, data can be easily recovered. Usually, the formatting tool just check for bad sectors by writing to each byte then checking to see if the same value was returned when the areas were rechecked. This is the technique employed by tools such as the format.com that comes with most versions of windows (WINDOWS\COMMAND) and the built-in formatting tools in windows's setup process. Even if a file system is changed, data can be recovered. Several zero-fill utilities for dos are available for free on the web, usually provided by the HD manufacturer on a bootable disk. Since I'm still picking up on linux, I haven't researched a *nix based zero-fill utility yet. I hope this helps!

ok buddy to see wut ms do or do't you can get ptprofiler from www.karenware.com this toollet u know everything that is not infront of ur eyes but is stored in the computer

MS has been a boon on the computing world for years now.!!!!

If you like microsoft then read up on them you won't like them after you look at this

www.****microsoft.com

Sorry for the repeat


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Its times like these that I wish I had a handgun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

MS has been a boon on the computing world for years now.!!!!

If you like microsoft then read up on them you won't like them after you look at this

www.****microsoft.com

Sorry for the repeat


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Its times like these that I wish I had a handgun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Hey guys, now seriously don't anyone thinked about that THEprophetMOSES has searched for a threads with very positive anipoint status to win some cookies? If not i thinked of it and i'm pretty sure that this is the fact. Now, THEprophetMOSES have just won a bad cookie. Sorry...

Hey guys, now seriously don't anyone thinked about that THEprophetMOSES has searched for a threads with very positive anipoint status to win some cookies? If not i thinked of it and i'm pretty sure that this is the fact. Now, THEprophetMOSES have just won a bad cookie. Sorry...

I noticed this thread yesterday, and went about reading up about it in more detail for a good few hours. I'm not into hacking, nor can I hack, but security issues are important to me, and I spotted something which really annoyed me.. let me explain...

It's said that you can open you're old emails through .dbx and .pst files if you know where to look for them right? I know where they are anyway, as I regularly back them up so I've always got another copy of my inbox if my HD ever goes down. Anyway, isn't there a potential security risk here? I know what to look for when I get sent an email that contains a virus, and most of the time I can spot them and take care of them, but for example, lets say someone receives an email with a virus attached in outlook express, but they dont realise its a virus, or they plain dont know... a back up of their inbox is created to these .dbx and .pst files correct? So eventually they realise they've got a virus, find out where it is, and quarantine it with their AV program.

But, if microsoft are hiding these files, they wont show up on a virus scan? So even though you've got rid of the email from your inbox, and done another virus check, it may appear that you haven't got any infected files, but infact there are infected files sitting right there in those hidden files?

Do you see what I'm getting at? Its hard to explain, but if you see where I'm coming from you can see how this poses a big question about the threat of virii on any computer running Windows.

I noticed this thread yesterday, and went about reading up about it in more detail for a good few hours. I'm not into hacking, nor can I hack, but security issues are important to me, and I spotted something which really annoyed me.. let me explain...

It's said that you can open you're old emails through .dbx and .pst files if you know where to look for them right? I know where they are anyway, as I regularly back them up so I've always got another copy of my inbox if my HD ever goes down. Anyway, isn't there a potential security risk here? I know what to look for when I get sent an email that contains a virus, and most of the time I can spot them and take care of them, but for example, lets say someone receives an email with a virus attached in outlook express, but they dont realise its a virus, or they plain dont know... a back up of their inbox is created to these .dbx and .pst files correct? So eventually they realise they've got a virus, find out where it is, and quarantine it with their AV program.

But, if microsoft are hiding these files, they wont show up on a virus scan? So even though you've got rid of the email from your inbox, and done another virus check, it may appear that you haven't got any infected files, but infact there are infected files sitting right there in those hidden files?

Do you see what I'm getting at? Its hard to explain, but if you see where I'm coming from you can see how this poses a big question about the threat of virii on any computer running Windows.

you could be using an AV program that scans email as it comes in. :D

you could be using an AV program that scans email as it comes in. :D

Yeah I know that, I do that, but not everyone does... talking theoretically of course ;)

Yeah I know that, I do that, but not everyone does... talking theoretically of course ;)

hmmm ... well, i don't think AV would work with that issue,
but all we can do is .... convert to Linux :)

hmmm ... well, i don't think AV would work with that issue,
but all we can do is .... convert to Linux :)

Actually Xid i didnt know that there was already one like this on there, thats why i put it here because it raises some interesting and serious securty issues and i thought that every one might like to know about it. As i said i only found out that there was another one like this "after" i posted it. You know how it comes up with similar items.

Actually Xid i didnt know that there was already one like this on there, thats why i put it here because it raises some interesting and serious securty issues and i thought that every one might like to know about it. As i said i only found out that there was another one like this "after" i posted it. You know how it comes up with similar items.