downloaded???

[students552 university]

hi, How can I know if any thing had been downloaded into the computer wheather it was from the internet or any other sources and how do I track the location where these downloaded files are. Your help is geatly appreciated.

[Dave Kreskowiak]

You don't. There are so many sources for data to come in from, you're not going to be able to monitor them all. On top of that, the source for data isn't kept anywhere in the system. Well, at least reliably. The History section of IE will tell you which website a file came from. But, if you write code to decipher IE's History, that same code will NOT work with any other browser. Each will have their own implementation of a history. RageInTheMachine9532 "...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome

[leppie]

Actually XP SP2 does this somehow, but i'm not sure how... xacc-ide 0.0.12 now with C#, MSIL, C, XML, ASP.NET and HLSL coloring - Screenshots

[Dave Kreskowiak]

You're telling me that it will log every file coming in from every possible source? Got a link to any docs that mention this? RageInTheMachine9532 "...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome

[leppie]

No, not log, but I do suspect they tag it somehow, maybe in those NTFS hidden streams... xacc-ide 0.0.12 now with C#, MSIL, C, XML, ASP.NET and HLSL coloring - Screenshots