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Answer» OK, so this is a bit of an embarrassing question...
I travel a lot for work and take a company laptop with me. On a recent trip I plugged in my own USB flash drive to LOOK at some... erm ... adult pictures and videos. Will this leave any trace on the hard drive of the laptop?
I watched some AVI files in media player and also PLAYED around with EDITING some JPEGs in microsoft paint. Everything was opened from and saved to the USB drive - but will it leave any files on the hard drive of the host computer?
If it helps, the computer is an older model Sony Vaio and itruns Windows XP.
Hope you can HELP, as I'd much rather my boss didn't find out I've been looking at porn!!Parental Guidance is Advised Quote from: tisa6363 on September 19, 2011, 07:48:47 PM OK, so this is a bit of an embarrassing question...
I travel a lot for work and take a company laptop with me. On a recent trip I plugged in my own USB flash drive to look at some... erm ... adult pictures and videos. Will this leave any trace on the hard drive of the laptop?
I watched some avi files in media player and also played around with editing some JPEGs in microsoft paint. Everything was opened from and saved to the USB drive - but will it leave any files on the hard drive of the host computer?
If it helps, the computer is an older model Sony Vaio and itruns Windows XP.
Hope you can help, as I'd much rather my boss didn't find out I've been looking at porn!!
Any files you may have opened might have links that appear in the "Recent" section of the Start menu (if this is enabled). However, clicking on any of them will just result in Windows attempting to find the files which, unless the drive is plugged in, won't be found.
Depending on what you're doing, there might also be temporary files on the computer somewhere. You could download a program like CCleaner, which will delete temp files and such.
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