EnCE EnCase Computer Forensics: The Official EnCase Certified Examiner Study Guide, 3rd Edition
by Steve Bunting
Cookies Folder
In older versions of Windows, the Cookies folder is located in the root user folder. With Windows Vista (and beyond), because cookies follow the user in a domain, the Cookies folder is found at \Users\%UserName%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies. Also with Windows Vista, in the Cookies folder you’ll find a folder named Low, which was covered earlier. Thus, for Windows Vista (and beyond) Internet Explorer 9, you need to remember to examine and process both the normal Cookies folder and the Low folder, which is a subfolder of the Cookies folder.
Cookies are pieces of code created by websites and placed on the user’s local computer. The code is supposed to be for the purpose of enhancing the user’s browsing experience, in ...
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