At 7:39 PM -0500 2/6/02, John McCann wrote:
>Got this from my S.O. and thought it would be of particular interest to this
>list.

You should do more research before sending on such files.

>[Begin quoted article]
>If you are running IE
>version 4.0 or above, the file name is "index.dat". If you are running
>or have ever
>run IE prior to version 4.0 there are two files. One is named Mm256.dat
>and the other is Mm2048.dat. Microsoft has not supplied an adequate
>explanation
>as to what these files are for or why they have been hidden so well.

These files are not "hidden" at all and are a normal part of the
web caching process, and Microsoft has explained them, such as:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q178702

This whole article is simply scaremongering nonsense which is not
grounded in reality. Other browsers do indeed cache files and maintain
a list of visited locations as well. If you don't like this behavior,
you can turn off your cache, although this is a normal and expected
part of browser use, not some deep "Microsoft sekrit plot."

--Kynn

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