Cleaning IE Cache - security thoughts

[Mike]

In Win98 I used to empty the IE cache from IE, wipe the swap file from dos
and deltree the cookies, history and tempor~1 directories and do a scanreg
/opt to cleaned URL history and then reboot and overwrite freespace. This
would have totally erased all website details from my hdd - what is the best
way to do same for XP. Cache files seem to be far more numeroous, there is
no dos and a 120 Gb hdd is impractical to wipe freespace on. Can I use an
overwriter like Eraser to just wipe c:\documents and settings\~user\cookies,
c:\documents and settings\~user\local settings\history and c:\documents and
settings\~user\local settings\temporary internet files from another user
account before emptying these from IE without IE getting in a mess, and set
XP to wipe swap at shutdown. Also what files are stored in the system
restore saves - url history in the registry and any index.dat files? How do
you compact the registry in XP so as to lose URL history after it has been
emptied from IE. This is partly paranoid but security is a bit of a hobby :)
Many thanks for your time.

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Regards

Mike (note email modified)

[pgriffet]

"Mike" > wrote in message >...
> In Win98 I used to empty the IE cache from IE, wipe the swap file from dos
> and deltree the cookies, history and tempor~1 directories and do a scanreg

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Hi Mike.
Take a look here : http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/delcache.htm

For the structure of IE history and cache, the site

http://www.purgeie.com

will help you.

AFAIK, the index.dat are not saved in the SR.

A lot of information about SR here :

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/itcommunity/newsgroups/faqsrwxp.asp

To compact and backup your registry, try ERUNT (freeware)

http://home.t-online.de/home/lars.hederer/erunt/erunt.zip

Pierre.