RE: How to obtain a yahoo username off a computer

["Carpio, Brian" <Brian_Carpio () csgsystems com>]

Yea, 

Pull his hard drive and use a data recovery application to recover the data, you can simply plug the hard drive into a 
linux box an run the strings command and grep for the UserID. Even though the data has been deleted it hasn't really, 
when deleting data the data doesn't relly get over written.

Or you can implement user policies and prevent him from deleting his log files, or even copy them off his box every so 
often, or even, just use a program like VNC or PCAnywhere or something and just watch what he does all day... 




-----Original Message-----
From: Potter, Tim [mailto:Tim.Potter () clarkconsulting com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 2:01 PM
To: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: How to obtain a yahoo username off a computer


Hello!  We have a security issue and need to know who is using a
particular Yahoo user ID from within our company.  We are about 90%
certain of the person's identity.  This user has been deleting his
cookies and temp Internet files.  We want to search his computer to see
if Yahoo ID xxxx is somewhere on his computer.   We know the Yahoo user
ID - we just need to confirm that this person is using it.  We don't
want to contact Yahoo because we don't want to go down the legal road
needed to get them to release the info.  Any ideas?
Thanks,
-Tim

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