I was on my boyfriends computer and went to his history on his browser, which was completely blank. But there was something that said "Most Visited" or something like that and it took my to craigslist personals. I noticed that the links were purple (meaning visited) and as RECENTLY as the day before. He gave me the following explanation (3 days later) and I'm wondering if there's any validity to what he's saying...

"Internet EXPLORER 7, which I currently USE because when I got into school, I had to change my operating system to Vista...because that is what they were teaching. IE7 is the default browser for Vista. I haven't changed....ONE because I like it. It's faster than anything newer...because it doesn't have all of the add-ins that come bundled with more current browsers.

It is the first browser with TABBED browsing. Unfortunately...like newer versions, IE7....will not auto-fill the TOP URL block, unless is is a FAVORITE. What it does do though....and they have since fixed it....is ANY URL entered into the top search bar is saved not only in HISTORY, but also in JAVASCRIPT cache, which is part of SERVER 2008, which I also had installed becasue of school. Because of this...anything that is put into the top URL bar is saved in Javascript cache, and will therefore autofill if you've been there before. Unfortunately...scripting saves a small picture of the site, the exact picture of the last time you were ON the site. So anyone that put that into my computer, since Fall of 2008 has profanity removed by Allan me, and made my girlfriend think I'm a liar...and I am so not.

That means anyone that has been on my computer, and gone to Craigslist that exact way....would get the page you saw. It's a picture of the script it took to get there at that time. It would take you to the page...current page, but still look like you had just been there. Even after closing the browser, and not saving history. HISTORY is different...it saves COOKIES into temperary internet files folder.

This is why you saw what you saw."1. Don't you trust your boyfriend?
2. Please don't use language like that.
Maybe i have an impairment of some kind that is muddling up the O/P's post . But i have a difficult time UNDERSTANDING who is speaking here. Is it the boyfriend or the girlfriend? The issue seems to evolve around something the "girlfriend" has come across while using a computer that her boyfriend also uses and she doesn't like what she has found. Is that the issue? If so i think she is on the wrong type of forum. Primarily here we gather our discussions around matters pertaining to technology. Or is it that this new found information she has found leads her to believe there could be more information within the computer and she is seeking our assistance to find a way to access that data?truenorth