As forensic examiners will be aware, Microsoft Internet Explorer stores cached data within randomly assigned folders. This behavior was designed to prevent Internet data being stored in predictable locations on the local system in order to foil a number of attack types. Prior to the release of Internet Explorer v9.0.2, cookies were an exception to this behavior and their location was insufficiently random in many cases. Internet Explorer 9.0.2 now names the cookie files using a randomly-generated alphanumeric string.