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3. I need to recover the search history of a work computer... I have been told it is wiped clean

Reply to TroglodyteScholar (Reply #1)

Sun Apr 14, 2013, 02:23 PM

Apr 2013

every twenty days and no longer exists.... However years ago, it was discussed that once a search is made that history lasts.... I'm wondering if search histories are not really lost or removed but retrieved via another method not made available for some other reasons?

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Anyone know a computer forensics person to asks if someone wipes important info. off the internet [View all] midnight Apr 2013 OP

Need...more...input... TroglodyteScholar Apr 2013 #1

I need to recover the search history of a work computer... I have been told it is wiped clean midnight Apr 2013 #3

Read up on the index.dat file TroglodyteScholar Apr 2013 #5

Thanks for the two links... midnight Apr 2013 #6

From the limited amount of information you give RoccoR5955 Apr 2013 #2

Do you know the name of a software that could make available a search history on a particular midnight Apr 2013 #4

I don't know that, but RoccoR5955 Apr 2013 #7

I only know the a specific time period... Would that cut down on the time? Thank you for your midnight Apr 2013 #8

Not at all RoccoR5955 Apr 2013 #9