Computer newbies forum: Does anyone know how I can find cookies and web addresses...

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/features/safer.aspx tells about inPrivate browsing in IE8. It's supposed to leave no traces on the hard disk (but the published documentation doesn't mention index.dat, so it's possible that that's still being used), I don't know.

http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable lets you download portable Firefox. Runs from a USB-stick. Also supposed to leave no personal information on the machine you run it on. It explicitely mentions bookmarks and extensions being on the stick, and I suppose the same goes for cookies and cache.
Moreover, index.dat isn't being used by Firefox at all. It could well be that cleaning private data in Firefox is good enough to prevent anybody seeing anything.

Yes, privacy (also the privacy of kids with snooping parents) is taken care of in several ways. And with kids being rather computer-savvy nowadays they might be on the winning side.

Kees

DO NOT confront the little guy over this ...
it will cause two things

1) a awkard momment :P
2), doing so basically tells a young mind (if s/he's around the young ages (12-14 ish) ) that this 'thing' is bad ... and could even possibly make him/her FEAR it in the future ...

insted of trying to trap him/her
move the computer near where you sit during the evening
when your around, he wont be able to open these websites as s/he might get caught... and will eventually go off them alltogether ...

bam

Sorry, you might be lying. There is no way I can tell, so, no I will not assist you in spying on others. If you are who and what you say you are, use the parental controls on your Windows system. By the way, if your Son or Daughter is viewing these places then their friends might be viewing them on that PC as well.

Of course in the US there is also this:

http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Contributing+to+the+Delinquency+of+a+Minor

No, I'm not a lawyer.

Doesn't your argument make all the more reason that she should be putting safety precautions in place like all those suggested before and after your comment?

"No, I'm not a lawyer"- You didn't need to tell us.

Windows Live Family Safety slipped my mind last week and is another possible solution to your problem- http://download.live.com/familysafety