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From: "anne-ology" <>
Subject: Re: [VIRUS] my .dat
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 20:23:12 -0600
References: <007001c286b5$bcc62520$3a1aae41@mshome.net>


No way to get around it - as far as I know [am very interested in
learning more about this 'CookiePal' 'though.]
but it lets you know just how many ads are on some of these
sites.

Granted it's a hassle to have to keep hitting the 'no' but in this
way, your computer stays free of these nasty 'cookies' some of which 'call
home' to report where you've been - and doubleclick.com not only does this
but sells your e-mail to others. And they have been threatened with law
suits for their illegal behaviour; but not being in the US, there's not much
our courts can do about them. Same thing is true with these hackers who
devise all these viruses; if they're within the US, they may be caught and
prosecuted [some have been] but when they're out of our reach, they are out
of our reach.

It's a sad commentary on today's society.

Maybe someone will have a niftier way to operate -
Sure would be interested in hearing from someone(s) with a
program which can avoid these ad-cookies entering the computer and at the
same time avoid the hassle of hitting the 'no' on their pop-ups, over and
over ... .

Looking forward to future discussion on this -

anne-ology

http://home.earthlink.net/~laginnis/index.html



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Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 5:31 PM
Subject: Re: [VIRUS] my .dat


>
> I have mine set to prompt but it is a pain, even our on local tv web site
I
> have to click it off (if I hit no) about a dozen or more times, is there
a
> way to get around this"
> Thanks
> Kathy Rogers
>

>
> Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 2:08 PM
> Subject: Re: [VIRUS] my .dat
> >
> > Suggestion -
> > to avoid this problem, just check the box in options under
> > 'properties' to let you know about any 'cookies' - then only accept
those
> > which pertain to your ISP, and any others you feel are safe and you want
> to
> > have their ID on your computer for easy access to their sites,... -
> >
> > anne-ology
> >

> > |
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 9:41 PM
> > Subject: Re: [VIRUS] my .dat
> > >
> > > I do agree, it's the cookies that are left and for most people it's
the
> > > obnoxious ones like doubbleclick etc.
> > >

> > >
> > > Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 6:16 PM
> > > Subject: RE: [VIRUS] my .dat
> > >
> > > For me, it's only cookies that are left and not many of those since I
> run
> > > Cookie Pal.
> > >
> > > Just another soggy Seattle Sysop.
> > >

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