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yeah. i remember a local news story/editorial a couple years ago about a woman divorcing her husband because she had discovered hundreds of "cookie hits" to a some site called sextracker (or something like that). she was convinced he was some freaky porn addict and left him, he claimed it was all a misconception and he wasn't into porn.

so i, being a techie, did some research, which i do a lot of, and found that the site that she based her claim on was something that would get hits from any web pages that advertise links to porn sites. i found quite a few hits on my own computer at the time even though i am not a purveyour of porn.

if you go to certain home pages, or off-color humor pages, certain blogs, or even some technology pages, etc. and there are advertisements to sites that you wouldn't approve of, and refrain from visiting, you'll still have cookies on your computer as if you had visited the site itself.

so be warned, you can get "associated" with sites that you never visit.

(i know it has nothing to do with deleted file but it is enough to make one put a tin-foil hat on once in a while, i.e. using a secure file eraser even though you have nothing to hide - but then having secure file erase could probably be used against you too!)