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I think it would be a good to add some cookieblockers in Microsoft
AntiSpyware. What do you think?
 
Presently, I don't think this is going to happen, but maybe I'll be
surprised.
 
Hi Michael:

If you type: cookies on the Search For: on top of this page, you'll be find
the opinios.

Engel
 
Why?

You can simply set the cookie handling options in IE (Tools > Internet
Options > Privacy tab, or right-click on the IE icon on the desktop, select
Properties, and then click on the Privacy tab) to whatever settings you want.
Doing this is far better than using what someone else (i.e., the programmers
who developed the antispyware software have decided "must" be dealt with).

I've seen way too many people be concerned about cookies because the
antispyware program they used told them that cookies are spyware. This is
TOTAL CRAP. Cookies are data files that store information about your
preferences for the site, and possibly your surfing habits. They can only be
read by the host domain that placed the cookie on your system. DO NOT listen
to these doomsayers who rant and rave that cookies are a bad, and that they
can lead to identity theft. The only cookies that possibly can do this are
ones that store personally identifiable information. These can be dealt with
be setting your cookie handling preferences in IE to Medium-High or above.
DO NOT block cookies unless you want to be limited to what sites you can
visit since most sites REQUIRE cookies (usually session cookies that are only
stored for the time you view the site).

Alan
 
I don't think I have ever seen so many 'facts' misrepresented in a newsgroup
in a long time. This post looks like the commercials currently running in
California about the special election next week. The tracking sites that
place cookies on your computer via other sites that you visit can then know
any other place you visit where they are also paid to track. If you
purchase something on one site, all your information is available to the
tracking companies and can be given to any other site you visit. They may
not give your credit card number to the other sites as I hope most sites
don't share that info with the tracking companies, but they could. They can
and do know that you visited several specific sites. Most cookies are not
session cookies unless you set your browser to automatically delete them
after each visit or do it manually. I visit some news sites that use
cookies to let them know I am registered and can access some content that is
not available to unregistered visitors. Those cookies remain and are used
the next time I visit.

You say that a cookie is only a problem if it contains personally
identifiable information. If you provide personal information to a site
that uses a tracking company's services, that personal information can be
associated with you by any other site that provides the tracking cookie to
the tracking company. If the first company wants to share the information,
or the contract with the tracking company requires it, that personal
information can be made available to all successive sites you visit that
utilize that tracking company.

You said: "(usually session cookies that are only stored for the time you
view the site)". I have found very few sites that use session cookies
exclusively. Most use permanent cookies and may supplement them with
session cookies for a purchase or a visit.
 
I agree, I think Microsoft AntiSpyware should block cookies, especially
tracking and spyware cookies. I got rif of some with ad-aware se that MS
AntiSpyware didn't detect.
 
FYI: Spyware cookies DO NOT exist. They are what some applications refer to
as tracking cookies.

Alan
 
Your credit card numbers ARE ABSOLUTELY safe. As is your personal
information. About the only thing that is stored in these cookies are the
sites you have visited. Juts so you know, it's a crime (probably a felony)
for anyone to use or distribute your ATM/credit card numbers or your checking
acount numbers to anyone other than the companies that process the
transactions for these sites. GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT! If anyone
misrepresented anything, it's YOU!

Even if you delete all your cookies, you can STILL visit a site that you are
a registered user. This means that those cookies HAVE ABSOLUTELY nothing to
due with your ability to view those sites. Once again, you've misrepseneted
facts!

Why don't you get to know the facts BEFORE you write/talk about stuff you
really don't have a clue about? Try looking at the Electronic Frontier
Foundation (http://www.eff.org) and seeing what the experts have to say about
cookies. Or better yet, read a book about web page design since most of the
people writing these books know more than almost anyone else about this topic.

Alan
 
Twit filter ON!

Alan said:
Your credit card numbers ARE ABSOLUTELY safe. As is your personal
information. About the only thing that is stored in these cookies are the
sites you have visited. Juts so you know, it's a crime (probably a
felony)
for anyone to use or distribute your ATM/credit card numbers or your
checking
acount numbers to anyone other than the companies that process the
transactions for these sites. GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT! If anyone
misrepresented anything, it's YOU!

Even if you delete all your cookies, you can STILL visit a site that you
are
a registered user. This means that those cookies HAVE ABSOLUTELY nothing
to
due with your ability to view those sites. Once again, you've
misrepseneted
facts!

Why don't you get to know the facts BEFORE you write/talk about stuff you
really don't have a clue about? Try looking at the Electronic Frontier
Foundation (http://www.eff.org) and seeing what the experts have to say
about
cookies. Or better yet, read a book about web page design since most of
the
people writing these books know more than almost anyone else about this
topic.

Alan
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Simple question: Do you have a degree in a technical field or not?

If not, then don't go around telling people you know what your talking about
simply because others have told you what they "know." Just look at all the
bogus crap on the Internet. How mnay people have been taken advantage of
because somwone they tusted told them they "need" this or that product, when
in fact they DO NOT!

If any one is a TWIT here it's YOU. I only see that you have been a part of
this beta test newsgroup for about three months. I've been a part since the
middle of March! You only have 6 threads you have taken part in, whereas
I've been in about 60 since the middle of June (threads before that are no
longer accessible).

I have a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. Not to mention that
I work in the retail feild, so I know that it IS illegal for anyone to give
out your credit card number, or any card/banking numbers for that matter,
without your exxpressed WRITTEN consent. Just so you know I've worked in
retail for over ten years, and am a trainer for the store that I work at.

Alan
 
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