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Name: Bev
Date: February 19, 2002 at 12:12:00 Pacific
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How do I view the contents of the index.dat files & then delete them safely?
Thanks,
Bev



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Response Number 1
Name: John Frost
Date: February 19, 2002 at 13:52:38 Pacific
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Here you go Bev, download Spider from here it will clean out all index.dat files...

www.fsm.nl/ward



Response Number 2
Name: Sue
Date: February 19, 2002 at 16:20:26 Pacific
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John, is it fixed in IE6?, which version should we download. Sue



Response Number 3
Name: John Frost
Date: February 19, 2002 at 16:32:59 Pacific
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Bev, I have been using Spider 1.16 with IE 6.0 with no problems.



Response Number 4
Name: Brant
Date: February 19, 2002 at 16:51:43 Pacific
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Bev.... If your objective is to erase the tracking that ME does, there are several redundant files which do the same thing. If you want to view the file you acn open it with Word Pad. If you haven't see int, you will quite amazed to see what all it tracks. But there are others that do the same as well. Virtually every application started, and every page visited, every download, every e-mail, blah blah blah. Of course, I am sure it is just to track terrorists.



Response Number 5
Name: Sue
Date: February 19, 2002 at 17:23:56 Pacific
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I downloaded that file, did its job but failed on removing anything except it did delete C:\Windows cookies index dat & Windows History IE5, but nothing menioned on IE6 and I can see the history still in there by going to spider bite.exe Sue



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Response Number 6
Name: Viking
Date: February 20, 2002 at 03:36:57 Pacific
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Sue,
Try having a go at Renaissance Mans : DELINDEX.
You can download it .



Response Number 7
Name: Viking
Date: February 20, 2002 at 03:42:59 Pacific
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:)



Response Number 8
Name: Viking
Date: February 20, 2002 at 07:02:25 Pacific
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HERE !



Response Number 9
Name: Sue
Date: February 20, 2002 at 09:10:12 Pacific
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Ok I am confused because I don/t know a lot about this stuff, I went to the site looked at the inst. Printed it downloaded file to my both my A floppy and in my C download folder, figured I would have it both places till I find out which one to keep it on, the on the 3rd one says right click and save as target (save to c:\) any particular folder or just in the download folder, that is where I keep all my downloaded programs till installed, meanwhile I will read the 4 page inst but dont think it says anything about how to do the 3rd one. Sue Help



Response Number 10
Name: Renaissance Man
Date: February 20, 2002 at 09:42:37 Pacific
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Put both on C:\ for full functionality. The view option will not work if you put it on A:\.

The DELYES! file must be on C:\ for it to work. (Nice to have if you have the Google toolbar, but not required. Not having it just requires user input if you do have the Google toolbar.)



Response Number 11
Name: John Frost
Date: February 20, 2002 at 14:00:44 Pacific
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All I can say is that Spider works for me with out any problems, it deletes the lot.



Response Number 12
Name: Renaissance Man
Date: March 11, 2002 at 16:11:05 Pacific
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I've used Spider for quite a while, as well as "Wash" from 12 Ghosts.

Spider used to delete all the stuff it found in index.dat files. Or at least I thought it did. If you uncheck the box "run in silent mode" you will see what deletions were successful and which ones failed.

Or run it once, then run it again to see if your history is still there or not.

How may other Spider users are SURE it deletes (or at least cleans out) the index.dat files?

IF you run it in "silent mode" and do not recheck it after you run it, you can't be sure!



Response Number 13
Name: Popal
Date: June 12, 2002 at 07:15:07 Pacific
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Hi!
I'm working with win98 and I should copy the
user and the url from index.dat in another
file.
But I don't know the stucture of the index.dat in WinNT.
Can somebody send me this file,therefore I
can make little experiments??
Thanks! Bye, Ajmal.



Response Number 14
Name: harry01
Date: June 17, 2002 at 07:37:05 Pacific
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Im confused. does spider program work on windows me with ie 6.0? also does anyone know if you can wipe index.dat with norton wipeinfo? thank you



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