Comments on: New EFF privacy tool

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 08 Feb 2005 19:51:26 +0000

Is Windows washer free and/or opensource? This would be the only way that i’d trust it.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 08 Feb 2005 04:29:45 +0000

I’ll give ‘em a try.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 08 Feb 2005 04:05:30 +0000

You’ll find that in the “Wash Items” section under “Browsers.” It bleaches on Windows startup. U can designate it to bleach manually everytime WW washes internet crud. I know people who’ve tried to unearth info wiped to no avail. Great program.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 08 Feb 2005 03:59:51 +0000

Use Window Washer by Webroot Software.

It “bleaches” the index.dat file & has different levels of “washing,” from user denominated wipes to DOD level to NSA & up.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 08 Feb 2005 02:28:13 +0000

use the wininit.ini file go to google and search for wininit.ini and XP.
basically, this involves creating a file called wininit.ini C:\Windows directory.

In this file, there needs to be the following line

[rename]

then under that you need a line such as

NUL=C:\Progra~1\index.dat

The short filename system must be used in the path and filename because wininit.ini is executed whil still in real mode.

one way to get the complete path name is to open a dos window by by executing the command, cmd
In this dos window, you can cd to the correct directory using the long file names.
once you are in the correct directory, type in the word command
you will notice that the path contains all shortnames. this is the pathname you want to use

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 08 Feb 2005 01:58:59 +0000

Speaking of privacy and logging of internet activities, anybody know of a way to clear the index.dat files that XP creates in the cookies folder? Short of a full reformat this file keeps a permanent record of every web page visited (even after cookies and “history” are deleted). You can replace it with an “empty” file in pre XP windows OS by booting up in DOS. Havenât figured how in XP. There’s nothing incriminating (that I know of so far…) in there but that kind of thing just bugs me.