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hi,
i need clarification regarding this simple doubt and hope i am posting this question in the right forum.
in my office, i am using an Internet connection shared over the LAN. now when i browse the net and later delete the pages from History. will it still be possible for anyone to find out the pages i have visited and if yes, how is it possible?
i am using Windows 2000(PE) with IE 6.0
thanks in advance.

When you say 'find out the pages', it could mean different things:

1. If one can find out what sites you visited. Yes, it is possible.

2. If one can find out the content on your machine. Mostly no, unless someone uses some utility to undelete stuff from your hard disk.

3. If one can find out the content you visited not on your machine but somewhere else. Yes, if you have a proxy server or a cache server on the network, one can see the content as you saw it.

Hope this answers your question.

To extend on the answer you was already given. If logging is enabled on the firewall/router (syslog or whatever) then it will log all sites visited by your machines IP address. If you go through a proxy server the same affect except the proxy will have the pages cached on it as well, If the proxy server has authentication it will log you by your logon name to sites visited as well as your IP address. also if they are using websense, SCM, or cisco secure acs they will log by IP and or user name without caching.
As far as removing content from your machine (deleting) you will need to over right that hard drive space roughly 100 times to be unrecoverable (not even reformating can save you hehe). so to be secure you would need a utility that complies with the department of defense DoD 5220.22-M standard or better for erasing data.

lmao

I don't think an ordinary hacker is going to go to that much trouble to find a history of sites visited, but I like the suggestion

I dont think he is worried about hackers I think hes been going to bad sites and wants to hide it from his work. and yes some companies will send out a HD for dissaster recovery to prosecute. also if they are really curious what you are doing they may put a sniffer in or even better stealth install a key-logger that captures screen shots. Its easy to get software that obides to DoD sanitizing and you can make it run on a schedule to over write all deleted data from that day.

Hi,
thanks to each one of u for ur reply.
i just wanted to clarify that i am not a hacker or such sort of guy and i don't visit any bad sites on the Net. i rarely browse the net in my office as i have a lots of other work to do.
it was just out of curiousity that i posted the question on this forum. anyway once again, thank u all for ur responses,

No I never doubted that you were a hacker yourself



I didn't realise that. That's why I found the comment about the "defense DoD 5220.22-M standard" slightly amusing