For what it's worth, when I went to the "fuckmicrosoft" site that led off this discussion, and read all the scary stuff, I followed the instructions to find my hidden history files--and found the contents just by opening them...they were not "empty" as the site said they would be. Which leads me to question the veracity of everything else on that site. Not that I'm a big fan of microsoft, but saying that the giant is bad (even if it's true) doesn't make everything else you say reliable. (If someone can point out to me where I'm wrong here, I'd be happy to hear it.)

Aloha,
Mark