# How do you erase all records of websites that you've visited?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 16, 2003, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-erase-all-records-of-websites-that-youve-visited/202014 "2003-09-16T21:26:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2003, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-erase-all-records-of-websites-that-youve-visited/202014/21 "2003-11-08T21:14:22Z")

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> \*Originally posted by APOC \*  
> \*\*Including proxy logging ? ISA logs ? Content Filter Logs ? Sniffers & Packet Header Checkers ? ? To circumvent this you will need a level of amin access yourself shorly ? \*\*

No, the topic at hand was eliminating incriminating items on your personal machine.

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> **I have yet to come accross a company outside of government that will have admins with the time to dedicate to review the logs that Una has been looking at. THey come in handy when you have a target in mind and are trying to make a case but can you imagine reviewing them for an organisation of any size ?**

It’s not that hard. That’s what searching/keywords are for, as well as pattern matching. No one reads all 1 trillion or so pages in Google either. There is plenty of legal software available to system Admins to monitor huge intranet/extranet sites. If you think that no one is doing text searches of your mails on the server, well, good for you.

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