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RE: chat logs


From: "Chapman, Carol" <Carol.Chapman () ANICO com>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 11:17:20 -0500

The google toolbar is easy to use, downloads and installs readily even for
those with little technical knowledge from www.google.com and indexes all
files on the computer and WebPages that have been cached.  It will also sit
in the background and quietly log all chats from then on if that is set as a
default.

It does a surprisingly thorough job of being able to index, access, and find
information on a drive. It is not intrusive, and will capture the needed
information - *caveat*  off a machine whose user is not technologically
astute.  As with many such items, a savvy user can turn off the logging of
chat, delete chat files, and set the toolbar to re-index, overwriting what
had been there before.  If that occurs, then it would be a red flag for
someone to investigate this machine and user more closely.


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