Hi,
I recently ran TestDisk and Photorec on an old Windows XP laptop to recover some previously deleted files for someone. This was my first time with data recovery.
This someone is a male, and I was lightly warned that they downloaded some adult content and used the laptop to stream porn and download photos.
However - there's 1000+ pornographic images that have been recovered. Whilst some of it is just your average porn (which I was warned about) or hardcore porn - there is also a lot of very extreme, disturbing content.
Forgive my ignorance, but my question is this: would he have chosen to download all these images (I know some were deliberate), or is it possible that browsing porn sites on IE (the main, trusted sites that most people use that host videos from other niche sites) and watching videos, downloading other images, might've also automatically downloaded additional images to his hard drive, and Testdisk and Photorec has retrieved them?
Quite a few, but not all, of the images appear to be stills taken from the same film. If it is the case that porn sites can automatically download images - would he have been watching these films in the browser?
I would appreciate any insight and advice. Given the nature of the content and the person - I am quite concerned but don't want to jump the gun just yet.
Thanks in advance
I recently ran TestDisk and Photorec on an old Windows XP laptop to recover some previously deleted files for someone. This was my first time with data recovery.
This someone is a male, and I was lightly warned that they downloaded some adult content and used the laptop to stream porn and download photos.
However - there's 1000+ pornographic images that have been recovered. Whilst some of it is just your average porn (which I was warned about) or hardcore porn - there is also a lot of very extreme, disturbing content.
Forgive my ignorance, but my question is this: would he have chosen to download all these images (I know some were deliberate), or is it possible that browsing porn sites on IE (the main, trusted sites that most people use that host videos from other niche sites) and watching videos, downloading other images, might've also automatically downloaded additional images to his hard drive, and Testdisk and Photorec has retrieved them?
Quite a few, but not all, of the images appear to be stills taken from the same film. If it is the case that porn sites can automatically download images - would he have been watching these films in the browser?
I would appreciate any insight and advice. Given the nature of the content and the person - I am quite concerned but don't want to jump the gun just yet.
Thanks in advance