How to track websites that have been visited?

When I check my child's computer, his internet browser history is all blank. I strongly believe he deleted all the browsing history, cache and everything.

Is it possible to know what websites that my child has been visiting recently after he cleared his internet browser's data?

Solution 1:

You can create an OpenDNS account, point your child's system to use OpenDNS and keep a track of websites used using that.

OpenDNS also allows you to block certain sites:

Each household is unique, so OpenDNS gives you flexibility in blocking Internet content. We divide the Internet's millions of websites neatly into 56 categories, like "adult," "games," "academic fraud" and "social media." Parents can block entire categories of content, or just choose to block the individual websites that you know are problematic or unsafe for your family. Or, for easier setup, you can choose a filtering level: low, medium or high. The low filtering level blocks just adult content, where the high filtering level blocks adult content, social networking sites, video-sharing sites and more.

Solution 2:

Try

ipconfig /displaydns 

from command line. If there's too many, you can send it to a text file from

ipconfig /displaydns > dnslist.txt

Or, you could talk to your kid, and let him or her know you're concerned.

p.s.

Explanation on the output of this command is discussed here.

Solution 3:

As everything is deleted, you have no way to know it at this time (except for asking the logs of your ISP, but I guess that's a bit over the top).

The only way to know this in the future without the child being able to circumvent it (as they always find ways ;-) is to enable logging on an intermediate device like a router.