Yes, he's right. Believe me, I have this down to a science. As I am a professional slacker at work and have been for years.
You can still even retrieve your history info from your computer after this is done. You need some kind of privacy keeper encrypting software program that destroys that information. There a free ones out there available for download, just do a search. You also need to use proxy when surfing the internet. Basically, you only log onto one web address, and surf the internet from that address. So, all IT sees is one address for the whole day. I do it all day, everyday. This also gets around censorship software that companies may have to keep you from surfing the net, such as Websense.
According to Microsoft, these files are used to cache visited Web sites to help speed up the loading of Web pages in Internet Explorer. Obviously this cannot be the case because when you clear the Temporary Internet Files the "index.dat" files remain behind and continue to grow. If you delete or clear the Temporary Internet Files, there is absolutely no need to index the URL cache because those files no longer exist.
On Windows Vista Computer, index.dat files are located :
\Users\<Username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies\index.dat
\Users\<Username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies\low\index.dat
\Users\<Username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\index.dat
C:\Users\<UserName>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\History\Content.IE5\index.dat
On Windows 2000 and Windows XP there are several "index.dat" files in these locations:
Index.dat files can be very hard to find. If you are in Windows, even with "Show hidden files and folders" enabled, index.dat files are not visible and cannot be found if you do a search for index.dat files. The reason that these files are so invisible is that they are not just hidden, they have been designated as "system" files. System files and folders are treated differently in DOS and Windows and are effectively cloaked from casual searches.
Here is a link to help in deleting the index.dat.
Also if this is confusing, there is software out there to do this. Just do a google search for deleting index.dat
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