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• Browser Usage

Description

• • The cache is where web page components can be stored locally to speed up subsequent visits
  • Gives the investigator a “snapshot in time” of what a user was looking at online
    • Identifies websites which were visited
    • Provides the actual files the user viewed on a given website
    • Cached files are tied to a specific local user account
    • Timestamps show when the site was first saved and last viewed

  Location

  Internet Explorer
      
      IE8-9
      %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5
      
      IE10
      %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5
      
      IE11
      %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\INetCache\IE
      
      Edge
      %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Packages\microsoft.microsoftedge_<APPID>\AC\MicrosoftEdge\Cache
  
  Firefox
      XP
      %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\ApplicationData\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\
      <randomtext>.default\Cache
      
      Win7/8/10
      %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\
      <randomtext>.default\Cache
  
  Chrome
      XP
      %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Cache
      - data_# and f_######
      
      Win7/8/10
      %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Cache\ 
      - data_# and f_######
  

Interpretation