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Can I boot from an external HD and then DL to it, remove it and then will there be any trace of of what I dl'ed or sites visited?
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Can I boot from an external HD and then DL to it, remove it and then will there be any trace of of what I dl'ed or sites visited on my internal HD?
Windows does not boot and run from USB hard disks.
Linux does but those web sites and downloads could be logged at the company or school's router. How would you erase those?
Bob
If I use Portable Firefox on a USB jumpdrive.
Will there be traces on my HD???
Install FILEMON and REGMON to see.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Processesandthreadsutilities.mspx
This won't stop logging at the router...
Bob
It's unlikely with Portable Firefox... However, there are plenty of other ways your activities could be monitored, router logging being just one of them.
There is no 100% anonymous method of surfing, period. It's simply impossible to cover all of your tracks. So, if you have reason to try and hide whatever it is you're doing, you may want to rethink doing whatever it is.
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