[AppyPappy]

It's quite another to find the person has opened an email from time-to-time that displays such pictures. Every image you view on your computer ends up on the hard drive as part of the system's caching activities.

Bullcrap. Caches are rotated over time. When was the last time you visited a website that displayed child porn? When was the last time you got an email with child porn on it?

I've been on the Internet since 1994 and the answer is NEVER.

[bonfire]

Ditto. And if it WERE true, I'm sure the Feds will be able to differentiate between a pop up, email or Devlin's search habits.

[jwparkerjr]

Consider yourself lucky! It's not how long you've been on the Internet as much as how long you've had the same address. In addition, I was the victim of a mail bomb virus a couple of years ago where hundreds of thousands of spam emails were sent out using my address.

I can not address your experiences on the Internet, but can however say with complete confidence how often the caching system flushes or replaces information is a factor of the individual system. If you, like I have, put in a new hard drive and moved your former primary drive to a secondary drive then a lot of the cached info will be there indefinitely since it's not longer the active cache area.

I was not attempting to excuse this guy, or downplay the problem of porn on the net, but rather pointing out that its presence is not always the result of a pervert collecting it and/or dealing in it.

When a legal authority takes your system their search of the hard drive is a lot more extensive than the casual perusal you or might might do. I'm sure you are computer-savvy enough to know that some files NEVER get replaced, but simply have the system's link to the file removed. The picture, info, data, text is still there and readily recoverable by a someone intent on finding it.

Many thanks!

[oceanview]

you are naive to believe that. trojans and malware of all kinds can get onto your system, and download a whole host of bad stuff that you never even see. unless you protect your system against it, with software to detect it and clean up files, you are vulnerable.

now this doesn't apply to the case being talked about here, since we know the perp's tendencies.

[LowOiL]

Bullcrap. Caches are rotated over time.

Windows: Index.dat, the hidden history file...

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