Spiderexe.exe How to use

[imadreamer2]

I d/l the spiderexe.exe tool. I executed it and run it. It gives me a huge word document with all kinds of urls from temp internet files and cookies and user.dat but I dont know how to actually delete the entries. Am I missing something here? I have read the help and can not for the life of me figure out how to delete them. So I just highlighted everythin in th e document and cut it but when i run the spider again it isn't gone. Or is this one that should be run from a dos promt? ????

[^dAvEy^]

FIRST of all, let's make sure you're using THIS Spider v1.16 program.

If you are, to run spider (including clearing all cookies):

- right-click the satelite dish logo on your desktop
- click Open
- click fourth button from the left
- click to select "complete hardrive"
- click to select all below that EXCEPT "run in silent mode"
- click "Accept"
- click second button from the left

Once that's done it's search:
- click third button from the left
- click "Accept"
- click "YES"

Your pc will reboot now.
You'll get a confirmation popup from Spider during restart
Check out what's been deleted, and then just click the x in top right to close it
PC will continue booting
DONE!

[Ridgerunr]

Only thing i would add is, if you have "some" cookies from trusted sites you'd like to keep, don't run the delete cookies feature. Get a cookie program such as Cookie Muncher: http://www.webattack.com/get/cookiemunch.shtml

You highlight a cookie you want to keep in the C:\Windows\Cookies folder and choose properties. Put a check in read only. Then click apply>ok. Cookie muncher will then leave it/them alone,but will "munch" all others when you click it. After running it,right click it's task bar icon(next to the clock). It will tell you how many it munched and you can exit from this menu...

Spider may wipe "all" cookies whether marked as read only or not...

[imadreamer2]

Yep I d/l the wrong version but after d/l version 1.16 it still didnt work. I clicked complete hard drive, remove hidden url, remove cookies, remove temp int files, and history. I clicked run in silent mode like and clicked accept, then it said would you like to restart the system now to eliminate all these hidden caches. I said yes. System shut down and nothing was eliminated.
The spider text is 14kb.

the spider bite.text says :
C:\WINDOWS\Cookies\index.dat
C:\WINDOWS\History\History.IE5\index.dat
C:\WINDOWS\History\History.IE5\MSHist012002110220021103\index.dat
C:\WINDOWS\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\index.dat

The spiderbite exe text says:

C:\WINDOWS\Cookies\index.dat
C:\WINDOWS\History\History.IE5\index.dat
C:\WINDOWS\History\History.IE5\MSHist012002110220021103\index.dat
C:\WINDOWS\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\index.dat
*** Failed on C:\WINDOWS\Cookies\index.dat
*** Failed on C:\WINDOWS\History\History.IE5\index.dat
*** Failed on C:\WINDOWS\History\History.IE5\MSHist012002110220021103\index.dat
*** Failed on C:\WINDOWS\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\index.dat
What could I have done wrong. Did it twice with the same results. and will try a third time.

[imadreamer2]

For what ever reason spider doesn't work for me. I deleted it and all references I could find to it and tried it again and still doesn't work. I have read the help files completely and tried checking different things like only the tem int files and it just won't eliminate the files. It does scan and find them but thats it. I guess I will stick with deltree c:\windows\ect ect ect. in DOS. Thanks for helping.

I didn't realize that spider was basically a dead program and so far behind the times. That's me always behind everybody else. In actuallity spybot s & d takes the tracks usage away and that does clear some space. The question is does the deltree command take the hidden urls, that only take ups space and really serve no usefull purpose?

[Ridgerunr]

A couple of questions,,where exactly "is" your temp internet file? And, does your C:\Windows\Cookies folder contain "Index.dat"?

The reason i ask,is because i've seen the TIF folder get removed from the main Windows folder and placed in another Windows folder. Don't know if a certain program does this or what,but if that's the case,Spider will not be able to find it to delete the urls.

A possible solution would be to go to tools>Internet options>general tab>Settings button under "temporary Internet Files"from your IE toolbar. Click on "move folder" button and browse to the main Windows folder and tell it to move it there. As i said,i don't know why(but with Windoze,who really knows? ) but the TIF folder "can" get moved and then Spidey can't find it...

[imadreamer2]

When I open the windows explorer the files appear to be in windows.
c:/windows/cookies/index.dat
c:/windows/history
c:/windows/temporary internet files/content ie5.5

The big spider txt document that is 14kb lists each category then what is under it. Except of course I can't actually open the index.dat file to see it its in use blah blah blah.

Also going to internet options>settings it even show it as c:/windows/temporary internet files So the files are where they should be..

Although I sort of gave up and deleted all of it, that is spider, decieded it was just as easy to deltree in dos. For some reason I thought that spider might do it easier and faster and that it might delete more hidden urls than deltree does.

[^dAvEy^]

You may have done a search here in VDr for archives related to SPIDER - among them are incidents where people (including myself) have had problems with SPIDER, but I don't recall one quite like this...
Usually, problems (when being used as directed) related to a screen reading something like
"The hidden url cannot be deleted"
instead of the
"spider has bitten...restart now" message

Your situation has me stooped, but you may be insterested in a small dos BAT file system that simplifies the deltree, yada. yada
All you do is go to a true dos prompt and type "gone" - it's pretty cool. Here it is (from a post by DVOM on THIS thread) in case you'd maybe like to give it a try:

When I was running w98 I used a batch file from the command prompt.

smartdrv
for %%x in (cookies history recent temp tempor~1) do deltree /y c:\windows\%%x\*.*

Just copy and paste into notepad, name it gone.bat or whatever just so it's got the .bat extention. Then put it in your C: drive folder. Then when you want to run it, go to the command prompt only in DOS and type "gone" and hit enter. That should take them all out.

[fyi]

Davey,
Your DOS command will not remove TIF as they are not in Tempor~1.
They are in randomly named sub-folders
in Tempor~1/Conten~1.
It needs a deltree to get rid of them.
regards

[imadreamer2]

I'm still not sure I understand this bat file but after dumping spider since for some unknown reason it wasn't deleting anything, I d/l the Internet Sweeper. It seems to work great. It even has a pop up stopper. I had previously tried at least six pop up stopper that for whatever reason didn't seem to work too well on my system, they caused freezeups, bsod, and in general just would not work for me. But the popup stopper on the Internet Sweeper does seem to work beautifully for me. It can be d/l here http://www.bmesite.com/ I so far really like it. Been using it for three days now and aside from the nag about donating I have been able to use it for what I think I needed it for. Course sometimes I think I want something and find out it was something else I wanted but any way so far so good. Between this and spybot s&d I think I have a handle on my needs . Next week I will figure out I want to do something else lol .....

[Philip M]

For what it is worth, Spider has always worked fine for me.
The instructions are a bit sparse, though. You have to "Set Preferences" before you "Start Search".

[^dAvEy^]

Thanks fyi
>Davey,
>Your DOS command will not remove TIF as they are not in >Tempor~1.
>They are in randomly named sub-folders
>in Tempor~1/Conten~1.

Currently mine are in:
C:\WINDOWS\Temporary Internet Files
C:\WINDOWS\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5
(including 4 subs)
C:\WINDOWS\Temporary Internet Files\OLK81A6

not to mention the
C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\VBE
folders which I'd also like to edit into that bat file

>It needs a deltree to get rid of them.
any suggestions how that might look?
TIA...

[imadreamer2]

Just to update. When I ran the spider it did say the spider has bitten, restart. After shutdown and reboot, went straight to the explorer and none of the the cookies, none of the temp internet files, ect were gone. Did it several times and it looked like from the message the spider has bitten....shut down it worked but it did not. I set the preferences both before the scan and after the scan but it made no difference. I have no clue as to what settings on this set up stopped it from doing it's job but......

The Internet Sweeper program does eliminate those and many more, after the shutdown, reboot, or even on first boot if I tick the block to run automatically at start up, index.dat back to 16kb, and all tif, temp, tempor~1, recent docs, history, ect are gone. Actually all is gone if I close the browser completely except to the cookies/index.dat of course. Course it is nagware, at start it asks for a donation but clicking continue it works anyway.

And even when deltreeing the urls from temporary internet files I found there were entries in the registry for those urls. Guess what?, when I run the spybot search and destroy it will eliminate those registry entries for those sites. I see no reason to store all those entries on my hard drive, especially when they recreate on next visit. The more I use these two programs the more I like them. I think if I would have had the spybot all along I would never have picked up that nasty save and whenu crap back in september.

[^dAvEy^]

Sounds great to me, imadreamer2

Ridding of needless bulk and potential mal-junk is my intent too and sounds like your emthod is doing the trick, provided the index.dat files are indeed being overwritten and minimized sans SPIDER properly running or deltree commands.

I use SpyBot too as well as RegCleaner, Spider, XCleaner, Cleanup!, AdAware, IrcBot and have tried others. I haven't tried Internet Sweeper yet though - happy to get the 411 on your experience with it.

All the ones I use have their own benefits, but personally, I'd prefer to have a simple bat file doing the whole or the majority of the job - finding one or editting the one that I've got now is now my goal.

Cheers!

Philip M
Have you seen the detailed instructions I posted above for running SPIDER?