Thread: Is it possible to see history of websites visited??

I have visited websites that i shouldn't be :nono: visiting on this computer (or this connection) :48: and so i wanted to know is there any way to see history of visited web pages ( not in browser or windows ) ??? do bsnl provides any such facilities....???

keyloggers can do that........

It may be possible to get details from BSNL... I doubt whether BSNL guys have time to provide such information... If you have wiped everything from the Computer, stay calm...

if you are a computer geek than delete all the history,internet files,cookies manually........if you are new to computers(as i think ) than download any of the free history removing software.......they do this thing easily.......firefox and IE have built in history removers...and i guess most of them also have....:P

I think that BSNL (and all ISPs) have to maintain a complete history of websites visited by its subscribers. I think that this is a requirement from police.

But they may not share this info with you.

Originally Posted by just4kix

I think that BSNL (and all ISPs) have to maintain a complete history of websites visited by its subscribers. I think that this is a requirement from police.

But they may not share this info with you.

who knows they do or not........but i know INDIAN ISPs are not that much responsible...........

@superman2020
Usually Only your Computer
can keep "History' of the web sites you visited.

If you are in a LAN set up,
even if you delete the history, "admin"
may have installed key loggers as mentioned above.
2.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090624 Firefox/3.5.1
Under Tools option for "Private browsing."
History not recorded.

3
Even if "History" is removed can be retrieved with
undelete application/s such as Recuva.
4.
After a period of time even this recovery is not possible.
normally, as the Hard disk is overwritten.
5.
Usually authorities , trace a person mainly from
crank or threatening email sent .
From the time recorded, by users in the register
they track and "request" all the
users to come to the Police Station,
who were at the center, during that time span
and "politely"
ask who sent the message !
6.

ISP's do not keep a record of website/s visited by
BB user/s. Also "Privacy" acts may apply.
ONLY time logged in "out " and data
usage recorded.
AN impossible task. for keeping
record of web sites daily, visited by millions of BB users.
7.
Even your telephone conversation cannot
be recorded, without proper authority from a
Court.
But whom you called at what time is available.

Use CCleaner. It can remove traces of your visit from your computer. Also clear History/ Private data from browser. But BSNL will have a record of your actions.

@meetdilip

.......But BSNL will have a record of your actions.

please do not scare new comers.
Bsnl is least bothered , or for that matter , any ISP,
what you do with your computer Online or offline.
if Ccleaner is activated off line how BSNL will know it ?
Or they will somehow know user has deleted the "History"?

No harm intended. Just a humble warning that all these won't help if you are trying something illegal. Something like hacking or trying to hack BSNL servers. Already provided the tool to fix the effects.

CCleaner will wipe out traces of internet activity from local computer. That is local activity. I know that BSNL and other ISPs have traces of IP's visited. This is a a requirement by law.

But as long as there is no unlawful activity, no one needs to worry.

Hello
My Friend is a govt. employee.and in their office the department provided them a internet connection.on this connection she visited some such websites that she shouldn't. and she want to know that whether the ISP(BSNL) records all of the websites she visits.if YES then she want the sollution to remove that data from BSNL.And one more question that. She already clears all of the browsing history from the browsers, can any software retrieve that data after Clearing
If YES then provide me a sollution for this
PLEASE

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One cannot wipe out data from BSNL servers. Those are not accessible.

But I doubt whether BSNL has the resources to track data of individual subscriber out of the millions. Only if the police or govt authorities report to track web usage will BSNL track user's browing history.

On second thoughts it is not impossible that BSNL (as well as other ISPs) are asked to track users accessing banned/restricted/sensitive websites. Purely to track terrorists.

@abcde
(a)

If Internet is shared , no worry. Cannot pinpoint "X" has visited the web site.

(b)
Can use FireFox browser and select Private Browsing.option see Post No 7.
History of web sites visited. not recorded.
( Usually in Govt Offices IE used. did not check facility available or not, in IE9)
This will help, if Admin/supervisor checks the browser history.

(c)

If any application or pictures, down loaded and stored in folders also to be removed. ( Use Ccleaner and try 4 or 5 passes )

(d)
Do not save to Favorites or bookmarks list.
( Usually in Govt Offices IE used. did not check facility available or not, in IE9)

(e)
If allowed change the Login Password often for the computer used.
Some other employee , may misuse the computer, during your absence/leave
etc.

Originally Posted by superman2010

I have visited websites that i shouldn't be :nono: visiting on this computer (or this connection) :48: and so i wanted to know is there any way to see history of visited web pages ( not in browser or windows ) ??? do bsnl provides any such facilities....???

ch ch ch!!! " very sad, BSNL guys are very religious also.".

Better to delete the History list every day, and when using other's computers select Private browsing.
Also "cookies" to be deleted.

Any company which is big enough to have an IT Department or administrator will almost certainly have a proper firewall. In fact, any company of any size should but that's another topic.

As a systems manager for a company of 40 people, administering a firewall was part of my job. Company policy on personal use of internet (online shopping, holidays, etc) was fairly relaxed: just as a certain amount of personal phone calls were allowed, so was a certain amount of personal internet usage. This was before Facebook, Twitter, etc, and I'm sure that if I was still doing the same job today, that many of those sites would be blocked or time-based controlled.

However, my firewall logged everything. If a manager came to me and asked how much time one of their staff was spending surfing non-work-related sites, I could and did give that information. I could list the sites, if required. Let me stress that this information was quite independent of the PC used: They could even format their disc, I would still have the information.

Mostly, my concern with that log was just to clear it down from time to time, but, occasionally, I used to give it a glance. You can guess what someone who spoke loudly against porn in the day was looking at in the evening!

Well, it was my job to administer, not to be a moral policeman....


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I see everyone saying bsnl doesnt track what you do through their network. But shouldn't it be really easy. Just logs of the ip addresses you request. Each ip you request goes through their servers. Can't they just log that ip. It wont take huge amount of resources. They must be having logs of each ip requested from your ip...
Anyway clear traces from your computer (using ccleaner or whatever that rewrites space with random data while deleting would make sure you can't recover it later) and if you are worried if the admin might look at your internet history (whether admin of you LAN or your isp) use some sort of encryption and route your traffic through some shell, this way they might not get to know of the type of traffic or the exact addresses you access unless they have access to your shell.

Even if they get to the shell (which shouldn't happen unless you are doing something illegal), you could always use a chain of proxies from thereon or use tor at the shell's end. Only problem is speeds might be slow on tor.

For an average user, just use encryption and route traffic through a remote server (your shell) , that should be enough.