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Index.dat are files hidden on
your computer that contain all of the Web sites that you have ever
visited. Every URL, and every Web page is listed there. Not only
that but all of the email that has been sent or received through
Outlook or Outlook Express is also being logged. The file names and
locations depend on what version of Internet Explorer you have. If
you are running IE version 4.0 or above, the file name is "index.dat".
Microsoft has not supplied an adequate explanation as to what these
files are for or why they have been hidden so well.
According to Microsoft, these files
are used to cache visited Web sites to help speed up the loading of
Web pages in Internet Explorer. Obviously this cannot be the case
because when you clear the Temporary Internet Files the "index.dat"
files remain behind and continue to grow. If you delete or clear the
Temporary Internet Files, there is absolutely no need to index the
URL cache because those files no longer exist.
You can not view the index.dat
using a normal editor program because it's in binary format. Index.dat Viewer can view the
URLs in these hidden index.dat files
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