People listen up.
Cookies are not a threat to your computers security. If you want to manage them then get SystemSuite 5 or 6. You can protect the cookies you want to keep (you know to help your "surfing"), and get rid of the ones you just want to dump ( like the ones you got going to that XXX site and your trying to hide them from your spouse (too many guys dump the history and forget the cookies files) ).
Ad-AwareSE and Spybot S&D always look for cookies, but like has been said here before they are just text files that can do no harm to your computer (unless your spouse is checking up on you, and it is you that will be harmed, not your computer).
Yes some cookies target ads to you, but all you have to do is adjust the settings in IE 6 or for that matter Netscape 8, like I am using. No 3rd party cookies will stop 90% of the unwanted ads targeted to you and your pop-up blocker should get the rest (you do block pop-up with IE 6 and also with Netscape).
I never clean cookies with Ad-AwareSE or Spybot S&D. There are too many of them I do want and they make it so much easer to go to Google, as my search preferences are on that cookie and I don't have to set them up each time I visit.
Now move on and worry about something else, like MS getting MSAS working correctly to find and protect you from the real problems out there, the "crap-ware" being loaded on your computer without your permission, or with your permission because you used poor judgment and failed to read the "fine print" on that "wonderful" freeware program that sounded so good ( "free" screensavers are the biggest problem here, even some of the ones from Microsoft Downloads are full of spyware and adware).
People drop the cookie crap. If they really bother you then shut them off ( you can do that also in IE or Netscape), block them all, but please don't come crying back here to saying IE is not working that way it use to. Cookies have become a item that provides convenience to internet users. And don't quote something from someone or somewhere else stating that all or some cookies are bad. Open one yourself, you can do that with Notepad. Look at what is there. Go to Google, set up your search preferences, and then go to the cookies file and look at it. Is it a "Dangerous" program or text file? They are only dangerous, if you get caught by your spouse going somewhere you shouldn't be in the 1st place. Remember the biggest cause of viruses, spyware, and adware on computers are the XXX sites. Stick with looking at what you have at home, after all you are married to them, and it will protect your computer and most important of all it will keep your spouse from hurting you.
How to make an "old" devildog
18 years of growing up
+ 3 months of Marine boot camp
+ 4 years of war (Hell on Earth)
+ a few very long years to become human again
+ 6 years of college (2 Degrees)
+ well over 30 years of computing (remember card readers?)
= bumping 60 very hard, already retired and a 2 year old son.
Ain't life grand
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: Also use Windows Explorer in your home directory's cookie subdirectory.
: Look at the cookies and delete those you don't want. Take a little time and
: maybe a utility to make looking at them would be useful, but not that
: difficult.
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: : > In article <#WXf3#
[email protected]>,
: >>
: >>I had an interesting experience along those lines yesterday. I was
: >>listening to "ThisWeekinTechnology" (TWIT) using WindowsMedia.
: >>
: >>During the course of the blogcast, the new ZAP 6 started an
: >>automatic spyware scan and found a tracking cookie from...awwww, you
: >>guessed it ;-)... WindowsMedia.
: >>
: >>So here's the point Microsoft, you may not want to scan for tracking
: >>cookies so as not to delete your own cookies, but people like me run
: >>multiple antispyware programs and your cookies will go away anyhow.
: >>
: >>Hey Microsoft, you might as well add that capability to MSAS.
: >>
: >>In for a dime, in for a dollar.
: >>
: >>Bob Vanderveen
: >
: > Microsoft already provides a way to block tracking cookies. In
: > Internet Explorer:
: >
: > 1. Click Tools | Internet Options | Privacy.
: > 2. Click Advanced.
: > 3. Select "Override automatic cookie handling".
: > 4. Under "Third-party Cookies", click Block.
: > --
: > Best Wishes,
: > Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)
: >
: > Please post any reply as a follow-up message in the news group
: > for everyone to see. I'm sorry, but I don't answer questions
: > addressed directly to me in E-mail or news groups.
: >
: > Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Program
: >
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