possible to access a computer's history?

[Maximus96]

long story short, friend of mine told me that they caught this kid working at his store trying to look up their bank account information on their computer. they had a guy come in and did something to the computer and it showed everything that the kid did...what website he went to, what time he did it...all kinds of info...does anybody know how to access such information and maybe teach me? thanks

 

[loup garou]

Oh for christ's sakes...

 

[minendo]

Originally posted by: zaku
long story short, friend of mine told me that they caught this kid working at his store trying to look up their bank account information on their computer. they had a guy come in and did something to the computer and it showed everything that the kid did...what website he went to, what time he did it...all kinds of info...does anybody know how to access such information and maybe teach me? thanks

Let me guess. Your friend is that kid.

 

[Maximus96]

no, my friend is the co-owner of the store. they caught the kid and fired him

 

[ClueLis]

Originally posted by: zaku
long story short, friend of mine told me that they caught this kid working at his store trying to look up their bank account information on their computer. they had a guy come in and did something to the computer and it showed everything that the kid did...what website he went to, what time he did it...all kinds of info...does anybody know how to access such information and maybe teach me? thanks

You've got these funny things called "history files." Most browsers create them.

BTW, even if you delete files they aren't actually erased, the link is merely cut. I could tell you ways of fixing that, but I don't think that would be wise.

 

[rutchtkim]

did he have some kind of software installed to do the monitoring? Text

 

[chin311]

Originally posted by: ClueLis

Originally posted by: zaku
long story short, friend of mine told me that they caught this kid working at his store trying to look up their bank account information on their computer. they had a guy come in and did something to the computer and it showed everything that the kid did...what website he went to, what time he did it...all kinds of info...does anybody know how to access such information and maybe teach me? thanks

You've got these funny things called "history files." Most browsers create them.

BTW, even if you delete files they aren't actually erased, the link is merely cut. I could tell you ways of fixing that, but I don't think that would be wise.

come on, FOR THE KID!!1 , yea, theres more to it then erasing the 'history'... low-level format that sucker.

 

[Nitemare]

I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you...

Page 76 second paragraph of the "Blue Book"

 

[Encryptic]

There's plenty of stuff you can do. Ask any data recovery place. The only way you can kill off your data for sure is probably to format the hard drive, hammer the platters into about 5 million pieces, run a powerful magnet over them and burn the hard drive in a hot fire. Even then....

 

[Quixfire]

Originally posted by: Encryptic
There's plenty of stuff you can do. Ask any data recovery place. The only way you can kill off your data for sure is probably to format the hard drive, hammer the platters into about 5 million pieces, run a powerful magnet over them and burn the hard drive in a hot fire. Even then....

Oh great, now I won't be able to sleep at night. Thanks alot! :|

 

[Encryptic]

Originally posted by: Quixfire

Originally posted by: Encryptic
There's plenty of stuff you can do. Ask any data recovery place. The only way you can kill off your data for sure is probably to format the hard drive, hammer the platters into about 5 million pieces, run a powerful magnet over them and burn the hard drive in a hot fire. Even then....

Oh great, now I won't be able to sleep at night. Thanks alot! :|

Heh heh heh. Time to take my advice and get rid of your kiddie porn, eh?

 

[Czar]

ie history?


edt. yes the histyr, right click on the link and properties, then you can see last visited

 

[dabuddha]

The kid was trying to lookup the store's bank account information or his own? If it's his own, that's a pretty stupid reason to fire him.

 

[Maximus96]

the kid was trying to look up my friend's store bank account. and as far as he knows, they dont have any monitoring software, they had some computer guy come in and did something and it showed everything that the kid has done. oh and he told me it was a DOS function...

 

[notfred]

Go to View > Explorer Bar > History in Internet Explorer

 

[pray4mojo]

DOS eh?

 

[Walleye]

Originally posted by: werk
Oh for christ's sakes...

haha.

 

[dabuddha]

Originally posted by: zaku
the kid was trying to look up my friend's store bank account. and as far as he knows, they dont have any monitoring software, they had some computer guy come in and did something and it showed everything that the kid has done. oh and he told me it was a DOS function...

Well I know Doskey had a Fkey that would show a list of all previous commands. Was the kid doing all this in DOS or Windows?

 

[Maximus96]

I doubt the kid was doing it in dos, most likely in windows. but it was just strange that a dos function would display all the previously visited websites and timestamps.