Question for the Tech Geeks -- Deleting Porn from my Comp

[Chuck]

Help!
I need to get rid of all the porn I have been surfing. I delete my history, web pages and cookies but have noticed that my cache does not delete. All the sites I visit are still on my computer where some tech savvy person can find them. Call me a dummy but I lease this computer from my job and have to turn it in next month. What should I do? I can only imagine someone in my jobs tech departement finding all of my hung angels pages.

[specialk]

I might not sound to informed here but , doesn't the cache empty on reboot? Also, for a few bucks you could buy a program like Window Washer, from Webroot.com ....works for me.

[JohnnyWalkerBlackLabel]

screw paying
lol

go to fileforum.com and find yourself a good history eraser
use the search box up top

[chefmike]

UltraWipe has a great hard drive cleaner, I found it on CNET or majorgeeks, and it's free...

[DeathFox]

You call someone a geek and you expect them to help you, how rude

[dvda74]

While attempting to remove a virus from my computer once I found Cleanup. It is a freeware program that not only clears your tracks but it also frees up a lot of disc space.

[blahblahblah]

Log in as another admin account (i hope you have permissions to create one or use built-in Administrator) and whipe out the profile of your porn surfing account ;-) ...

P.S.

If i were your boss i'd fire you, you know that !?!

[Chuck]

Log in as another admin account (i hope you have permissions to create one or use built-in Administrator) and whipe out the profile of your porn surfing account ;-) ...

P.S.

If i were your boss i'd fire you, you know that !?!

I appreciate all the great wisdom many of my fellow pervs, geeks, and tranny lovers have passed on to me. But that was by far the most amateurish suggestion of them all.

[blahblahblah]

Log in as another admin account (i hope you have permissions to create one or use built-in Administrator) and whipe out the profile of your porn surfing account ;-) ...

P.S.

If i were your boss i'd fire you, you know that !?!

I appreciate all the great wisdom many of my fellow pervs, geeks, and tranny lovers have passed on to me. But that was by far the most amateurish suggestion of them all.

LOL

Oh, c'mon, it's the quickest, cheapest and by far the best way to rease
the shit. Don't be so cruel, mon!

I'd definitely fire you.

[Chuck]

Log in as another admin account (i hope you have permissions to create one or use built-in Administrator) and whipe out the profile of your porn surfing account ;-) ...

P.S.

If i were your boss i'd fire you, you know that !?!

I appreciate all the great wisdom many of my fellow pervs, geeks, and tranny lovers have passed on to me. But that was by far the most amateurish suggestion of them all.

LOL


Oh, c'mon, it's the quickest, cheapest and by far the best way to rease
the shit. Don't be so cruel, mon!

I'd definitely fire you.

ha ha, the porn is not on my company network. It's on the laptop which I take home so what good will that do? Yeah I think I would be fired too. Not because I surf porn sites. Not because I'm into shemale porn. I'd be fired just for the sheer volume of it. I'm an addict. I can do this for hours a day.

[hondarobot]

If your boss would actually take a serious attempt to find porn on your computer, he'll find at least some traces of it.

Take the computer in to work, tell your boss you loaned it to a neighbor/friend/relative (actually loan the comp for a few hours, and you won't even be lying) and when you got it back it was full of porn! You're a stand up guy and would never violate company policy so you wanted to inform him of this immediately and was wondering if the offensive material could be removed.

You present yourself as a stand-up guy to your boss, company geek guy wipes out porn, and everyone knows you'd never look at that stuff or why would you bring up the situation in the first place? Everyone wins. Oh, and get a different computer for porn.

On the other hand, if you actually are addicted to porn, find a hobby. All good things in moderation.

:wink:

[Chuck]

If your boss would actually take a serious attempt to find porn on your computer, he'll find at least some traces of it.

Take the computer in to work, tell your boss you loaned it to a neighbor/friend/relative (actually loan the comp for a few hours, and you won't even be lying) and when you got it back it was full of porn! You're a stand up guy and would never violate company policy so you wanted to inform him of this immediately and was wondering if the offensive material could be removed.

You present yourself as a stand-up guy to your boss, company geek guy wipes out porn, and everyone knows you'd never look at that stuff or why would you bring up the situation in the first place? Everyone wins. Oh, and get a different computer for porn.

On the other hand, if you actually are addicted to porn, find a hobby. All good things in moderation.

:wink:

Thanks for the suggestion about finding a hobby. Before this my obsession used to be HALO jumping. That's skydiving at altitudes of 28,000 and not opening your chute until about 1000 feet. By comparison I find porn to be a safer obsession.

[chefmike]

wrong...if you use a program that overwrites your hard drive, it would take a police computer geek to find any traces...and the best pay programs probably should be able to eliminate that problem...ultrawipe is the best free program that I have found...never forget... Alberto Gonzalez is watching, not just your boss...

[chefmike]

And honda...you're preaching to this guy about porn in moderation? :smh :lies

[hondarobot]

Hehe. . . I may not have been an authority on moderation in the past, but I'm changing my ways.

I haven't tried out that Ultrawipe thing, so I couldn't say here or there about it. But I do like my idea better, it's got more of a wacky "I Love Lucy" plot line to it.

"I got my laptop back and it was filled! Filled I tell you. . .with dirty, explicit, vile pornography!!! I've never seen the likes of such things! I. . . I may need some time off to erase those disgusting images from the very fabric of my brain! Oh, and do you guys have another computer I could use, one to keep at home 24/7. . . ?"

:)

[chefmike]

Hehe. . . I may not have been an authority on moderation in the past, but I'm changing my ways.

I haven't tried out that Ultrawipe thing, so I couldn't say here or there about it. But I do like my idea better, it's got more of a wacky "I Love Lucy" plot line to it.

"I got my laptop back and it was filled! Filled I tell you. . .with dirty, explicit, vile pornography!!! I've never seen the likes of such things! I. . . I may need some time off to erase those disgusting images from the very fabric of my brain! Oh, and do you guys have another computer I could use, one to keep at home 24/7. . . ?"

:)

LMAO...if you say it I'll swear to it, amigo...

[Shandus]

Talk to the IT people at your office and find out what the policy is when you turn in a computer. In the places I've worked, the policy was to format the drives and reinstall using a Ghosted image of the company standard computer. Alternately, save any critical data you need onto an external hard drive and format the drives yourself, then take it to them and tell them "It won't boot into the operating system. I don't know what caused it." They will more than likely reinstall the OS and all company-necessary software and be done with it.

BTW, a formatted drive is the only real way to erase anything off of a computer. Anything else leaves traces that any good IT person can find.

[BeardedOne]

But I do like my idea better, it's got more of a wacky "I Love Lucy" plot line to it.

"Ricky, what's a shemale? I overheard you and Fred saying how great they were!"

:lol:

One of the perks of working with the dotcom as a sideline is that if they find porn on one of my computers they'll just say "Oh! Is that one of our sites?" :D

Gawd! I love the internet! *Grunt* *Grunt* :rock2

[lurker]

Find out company policy. If you're really that worried about it.... dban or autoclave. Tell them your neighbor's kid did stole it and now it doesn't boot. Then go spend the $400 to get a Dell HardOn 8200 with the Pentium Duo and 2GB of RAM.

At the very least, on your next COMPANY LEASED PC, use an external hard drive with fingerprint security built in.

[Vicki Richter]

The real way to do this is simple. Take out the hard drive and drop it on the ground several times. Drop it on carpet if you can from a higher distance. You can even do it with some force as it shouldn't physically damage the drive. However, you should damage the internals.

You can also simply take the drive apart and scratch the surface a few times. When you give back the computer, they will note it has a bad drive and replace it. Unless you are a scientist or have contracts or other high visibility data on your drive, they won't pay the 3-5k to recover the data. Drives fail all the time.

Of course there are easier ways. Formatting the drive is pretty safe simply because you can claim confidentiality and very very few non-government companies would take the time to unformat the disk unless their legal departments were involved.

Since I don't know anything about you, for all I know you are a Circle K inventory clerk, in which case, they probably expect you to surf porn on your computer.

[NYCe]

US Department of Defense 5220.22-M Clearing and Sanitization Matrix

a. Degauss with a Type I degausser

b. Degauss with a Type II degausser.

c. Overwrite all addressable locations with a single character.

d. Overwrite all addressable locations with a character, its complement, then a random character and verify. THIS METHOD IS NOT APPROVED FOR SANITIZING MEDIA THAT CONTAINS TOP SECRET INFORMATION.

e. Overwrite all addressable locations with a character, its complement, then a random character.

f. Each overwrite must reside in memory for a period longer than the classified data resided.

g. Remove all power to include battery power.

h. Overwrite all locations with a random pattern, all locations with binary zeros, all locations with binary ones.

i. Perform a full chip erase as per manufacturer's data sheets.

j. Perform i above, then c above, a total of three times.

k. Perform an ultraviolet erase according to manufacturer's recommendation.

l. Perform k above, but increase time by a factor of three.

m. Destroy - Disintegrate, incinerate, pulverize, shred, or melt.

n. Destruction required only if classified information is contained.


However I doubt you need these levels.

[kukm4]

You can try
BCWipe software
"BCWipe v.3 is a powerful set of utilities which complies with options to invoke either the US DoD 5200.28-STD standard or the Peter Gutmann wiping scheme"

http://www.jetico.com/

[RawNY]

For the immediate proble go to yor start memu, click on all programs, go to accessories, then system tool, then disc clean up
when the disc cleanup is done, open the "temporary files" Send them all the the recyle bin and then deleate them from there and complete the clean up.
It does not get rid of them completely, but it will be hard to find them.

Now, how do you clean up the MSN history from the top where you put in your websites?

[djbj_2_2_69]

For the immediate proble go to yor start memu, click on all programs, go to accessories, then system tool, then disc clean up
when the disc cleanup is done, open the "temporary files" Send them all the the recyle bin and then deleate them from there and complete the clean up.
It does not get rid of them completely, but it will be hard to find them.

Now, how do you clean up the MSN history from the top where you put in your websites?


do you mean when you type in an address, the website fills out auto?
example, you type "H" in the address bar and "Hungangels.com" comes up?

if that's what you are talking about go to:
Tools
Internet Options
Advanced
find the "Use Inline AutoComplete" and make sure it's unchecked.

[MacShreach]

Help!
I need to get rid of all the porn I have been surfing. I delete my history, web pages and cookies but have noticed that my cache does not delete. All the sites I visit are still on my computer where some tech savvy person can find them. Call me a dummy but I lease this computer from my job and have to turn it in next month. What should I do? I can only imagine someone in my jobs tech departement finding all of my hung angels pages.

I'm not sure I follow, since you seem to be saying you've deleted your history, which in IE is the cache. However you don't say either which opsys you're using or which browser. If it's IE, get to Internet options, either through IE "tools" ^ up there, or in control panel, and on the first tab click "Clear History." This will delete the cache.

If you're using FireFox (good idea), go to Tools>Options>Privacy>Cache>Clear Cache. Job done.

You also need to get rid of your stored Internet Files and your cookies, since many porn sites set them. Make sure you delete all offline content when you get the option.

Now go to "My Computer", or whatever it's called in M$crosoft HorsePiss if you're using that (sigh), right click on the icon for the C: drive and click Disk Cleanup. Get rid of everything the wizard suggests.

Obviously we trust you have already deleted those awful pictures, so now run Disk Defragmenter. In fact run it a few times, best overnight because it takes a while.

That's about all you can do without specialist software to deep remove all traces of files, but there is plenty of that on the web available free if you do work for a paranoid boss. This is because Windows doesn't actually get rid of files it deletes, it just marks them as space available to be over-written, and unless they are, which may never happen if you have a large HD, then they will still be there, baby.....However if your boss is cool and not overly techie the tools in Windows will pretty much get you there.

If none of that works then go here for instructions for other browsers.

http://support.lexis-nexis.com/nexis/Record.asp?ARTICLEID=wg_cache&vcRef=1

Oh, and remember not to go porn surfing the night before you hand in the computer.........