Internet Explorer stores files downloaded from the internet in a cache called Temporary Internet Files (e.g. html pages, images, CSS files). Each cached file is assigned an alphanumeric cache name. Some index.dat files serve to map the cached name with the filename and URL it came from. Other index.dat files store the user’s cookies or web browser history (by default 20 … Continue reading How Internet Explorer stores web history
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FireFox usage
Great little tool on FirefoxForensics to do the same sort of thing as with IE. Firefox stores its cache of URLs etc in sqlite databases, which can be found in this folder: C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[profilename] For example there is a cookies.sqlite, formhistory.sqlite and downloads.sqlite for starters! I wish IE would be this neat! I have updated my graph … Continue reading FireFox usage
Internet Explorer usage
For one of my labs this week we had to browse a few websites using IE and then using an Internet Explorer analysis tool find out as much info as possible about what we looked at. IE logs all browser activity in index.dat files. The data stored includes the URL, data and time of last modification and … Continue reading Internet Explorer usage
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