[ILUG] MS hidden spy-files & how to get rid of them

[John J. Allen]

On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 08:25, Catherine Ansbro wrote:
> At our 1st Midlands LUG meeting one of the topics that arose was the secret
> hidden files on MS OS's that stored records of every website visited and
> every email sent or received, plus attachments--and stored this even after
> you had deleted it, and even after disk formatting.  A friend in Scotland
> passed me on this excellent website, which includes how one can get rid of
> these files:
> 
> http://www.fuckmicrosoft.com/content/ms-hidden-files.shtml

As good as Microsoft are at keeping track of your movements with hidden
files, registry entries, and god knows what else; even they cannot keep
the info on your local hard disk after formatting it.