Registry and privacy

[Guest notval@notval.nv]

I know of cookies, index files and suchlike. A great number of

cleaners are available to remove/shred those files.

 

My question is: includes the registry information on visited web sites

and/or downloaded files?

 

Thanx, Fred

[Guest Ken Blake, MVP]

Re: Registry and privacy

 

On Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:48:23 +0200, notval@notval.nv wrote:

> I know of cookies, index files and suchlike. A great number of

> cleaners are available to remove/shred those files.

>

> My question is: includes the registry information on visited web sites

> and/or downloaded files?

 

 

Sorry, I don't understand what you mean by that question. But if you

are asking about registry cleaners, here's my standard post on the

subject:

 

Registry cleaning programs are *all* snake oil. Cleaning of the

registry isn't needed and is dangerous. Leave the registry alone and

don't use any registry cleaner. Despite what many people think, and

what vendors of registry cleaning software try to convince you of,

having unused registry entries doesn't really hurt you.

 

The risk of a serious problem caused by a registry cleaner erroneously

removing an entry you need is far greater than any potential benefit

it may have.

 

--

Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience

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[Guest notval@notval.nv]

Re: Registry and privacy

 

On Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:48:17 -0700, "Ken Blake, MVP"

<kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote:

>On Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:48:23 +0200, notval@notval.nv wrote:

>

>> I know of cookies, index files and suchlike. A great number of

>> cleaners are available to remove/shred those files.

>>

>> My question is: includes the registry information on visited web sites

>> and/or downloaded files?

>

>

>Sorry, I don't understand what you mean by that question. But if you

>are asking about registry cleaners, here's my standard post on the

>subject:

>

>Registry cleaning programs are *all* snake oil. Cleaning of the

>registry isn't needed and is dangerous. Leave the registry alone and

>don't use any registry cleaner. Despite what many people think, and

>what vendors of registry cleaning software try to convince you of,

>having unused registry entries doesn't really hurt you.

>

>The risk of a serious problem caused by a registry cleaner erroneously

>removing an entry you need is far greater than any potential benefit

>it may have.

 

John thanks. My question is related to privacy. What I wanted to say:

I know that traces of one's web activity can be found in -files-.

Files can be deleted/shredded.

 

Now the registry is different. My question: is there inside the

registry information on one's web/download history? Readable with

regedit, should you know where to look.

 

Fred

[Guest db.·.. >]

Re: Registry and privacy

 

the simple conclusion is that

the software you have or had

can be traced back to its origin

because of the keys in the

registry/database, whether the

keys are active or orphaned.

 

so this is one of the reasons

for keeping outdated data out

of the registry file/database.

 

however, different registry

cleaners utilize different

criterion for removing keys.

 

for example, the one care

safety scanner version and

then running eusing utilize

two different methodologies

for determining keys that can

be removed.

 

once the keys are removed they

are not recoverable.

 

however, the registry and the keys

it had can be restored via system

restore or from a back up.

 

another point to make is that

simply deleting files or folders

from your disk is the snake oil

because unless the space is "wiped"

cleaned and "replaced" with data

utilizing specialized software, then

that data, which is presumed to

be deleted, is in fact fully recoverable.

 

and yet the above is not totally

secure, because some software

that "wipe" away deleted data, simply

relocate that data to a different place

on the disk.

 

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because you specifically asked about

cookie data inside the registry; its easy for

you to check for yourself and develop

your own understanding by clicking on:

start>run>regedit

 

then go to the menu and use the

"find" option/feature and enter

any criterion that you are interested

with.

--

 

db·´¯`·...¸><)))º>

 

<notval@notval.nv> wrote in message news:spnse4lvq0s4dfsnsvr2972qjpfnah99t6@4ax.com...

>I know of cookies, index files and suchlike. A great number of

> cleaners are available to remove/shred those files.

>

> My question is: includes the registry information on visited web sites

> and/or downloaded files?

>

> Thanx, Fred

[Guest notval@notval.nv]

Re: Registry and privacy

 

On Thu, 9 Oct 2008 17:22:59 -0500, db.·.. ><))) ·>` .. .

<databaseben.public.newsgroup.microsoft.com> wrote:

 

Snip,snip .....

>because you specifically asked about

>cookie data inside the registry; its easy for

>you to check for yourself and develop

>your own understanding by clicking on:

>start>run>regedit

>

>then go to the menu and use the

>"find" option/feature and enter

>any criterion that you are interested

>with.

 

Wow, I could have thought of that myself (but did not!)

 

Thanks, Fred