Web Browser Leaves No FootPrint!

Just use Opera or Firefox and click ‘Clear Private data’ and you’re done.

Your spouse will never see those sites you’ve been surfing looking for a birthday present. :stuck_out_tongue:

You could also use GreenBrowser with the following settings
and wipe out everything whenever you close the browser if
you really have things you want to hide… ;D

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v190/bob3160/ShellFTP/GB.png

Direct download of GreenBrowser available Here

same like u can use Maxthon, MyIE2, Avant and any other good IE based browser …

btw … Polonus claiming browser based on IE engine is not browser is same like claim FireFox or Flock is not browser cause it uses Gecko :slight_smile:

You could also use GreenBrowser...
same like u can use Maxthon, MyIE2, Avant and any other good IE based browser ...

Any IE based browser will presumably suffer from the same problem in that a record of cookies is stored in the index.dat file?

There are several free utilities that will delete index.dat files, but I think they all require a reboot:

http://www.geocities.com/dontsurfinthenude/

Hey Freewheelinfrank :wink:
This one will clean the index.dat without a reboot…
Cleans the following
Internet Explorer
Temporary files, URL history, cookies, Autocomplete form history, index.dat.
http://www.ccleaner.com/

This one will clean the index.dat without a reboot..

'fraid not: requires a reboot. :wink:

http://donaldbroatch.users.btopenworld.com/ccleanindexdat.jpg

Never done it to me and i’ve used ccleaner for Years and it is checked

let me recheck and get back …if i have it checked and it is not saying to reboot…why not???

ok…freewheelinfrank…you were right…i unchecked it then checked it again and it said the reboot screen to me too…i never knew that…so when you reboot your computer(don’t do that much)it will clean the index.dat files…you do not have to uncheck and check that box everytime to do that…do you???

No you don’t have to uncheck and recheck the box, when you click Run Cleaner button, it will do its work and clean all the checked options including delete the index,dat at the next reboot.

Howdy malware fighters,

I am going to try to take this Browzar apart, and see how it was designed. Fire up the old recStud and see how it hangs together pragmatically. Well you can consider this shell as a sort of IE “condom”, and then a bad one because it leaks to either side (tracks on the host computer, and commercial tracking by the pay per click cashiers), and make it easier to make a search profile on you, and how cleverly done by the developer: just consider in what circumstances a user would fire up Browzar. As a profiler you would lick your fingers just to get these results, won’t you folks?

There could be much better shells for IE being constructed if you use the same mechanism PocketFlock uses to clear all browser traces, and if you like to do that properly this tool should check on closing, and on restarting. Then if you would like to make an effort in the privacy sense, you’d like to use a “neutral” searchengine, like general A9 or even better search with scroogle (28 languages).

If Browzar does not adopt these attitudes, it is senseless to use it.
It can be qualified as a Crapola Adware Snake Oil Privacy Shell.
I hope that the others here will agree with me, that we should refrain from using it, until something better comes along or until the developer can turn it into a tool that will deliver what it promishes, and does not let his tool run on adware money, spamming search results and making searching less reliable in the long run for everyone. Boys and gals it is a bad deal from whatever side you want to look at it. Browzar has fallen through, it is just a “Web 2.0 hick-up bubble in the sky”. Forget about it, will ye,

polonus

I got rid of browzar. Seems like from what I have read etc that I can do almost the same thing with some of my other browsers anyway. :slight_smile:

Hi Neal63,

I have been getting this Browzar shell thingie apart like the old grandpa alarm clock, and stuck on some remarkable facts.
Following info for informational purposes only:

The shell was built with Webweaver and Visual Basic C++, guess version 7.0. If you turn it on with the language changed to dutch, it leads you to the dutch page of ask.com, Salt Lake City comes into the picture, and names pop up like Secure-Comodo, the USERTRUST.com Network, for what that’s worth, and the program comes from Huddersfield U.K… Home base url: 217.199.173.135.
These are used accelerators:

VK_N, 57600, CONTROL, VIRTKEY
VK_O, 57601, CONTROL, VIRTKEY
VK_S, 57603, CONTROL, VIRTKEY
VK_Z, 57643, CONTROL, VIRTKEY
VK_X, 57635, CONTROL, VIRTKEY
VK_C, 57634, CONTROL, VIRTKEY
VK_V, 57637, CONTROL, VIRTKEY
VK_BACK, 57643, ALT, VIRTKEY
VK_DELETE, 57635, SHIFT, VIRTKEY
VK_INSERT, 57634, CONTROL, VIRTKEY
VK_INSERT, 57637, SHIFT, VIRTKEY
VK_F6, 57680, VIRTKEY
VK_F6, 57681, SHIFT, VIRTKEY

The excuse from the developers is that you can give in any searchengine URL you want, as they say, and the program was not meant to be an adtool per se.

Much worse i.m.h.o. it does not act as a privacy tool also, because it leaves traces of the visited URLs on several places on the user’s hard disk. I discussed this in our thread.
With all the functionality of the underlying IE browser sitting there, it is not the most secure way to go, I fear.
What do you think?

polonus

Hi Polonus,
Very interesting. I am not sure what to think about all of this information you obtained. I know that I got rid of Browzar. Interesting that the name Comodo came up in your information. While one of its products is a firewall they do have other programs also. Hmmm?