Author: Shep
Date: 08:11:30 03/27/00
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On March 24, 2000 at 19:53:59, Tina Long wrote: >Woof Woof (the guard-dog beeper) "TeenXXX.com is trying to place a Cookie on >your computer. You have never visited this site." > >upset & scared me, especially after several of them barked at me. > >If CCC or GambitSoft etc have cookies that tell them I'm a customer etc, that's >fine by me. It's anonymous stuff I fear, if they can plant cookies just because >I'm attached to the internet, then what else can they plant? Nothing. When you're visiting a site, that site can order your browser to set a cookie. That's all. There are security measures taken by the browser that nothing else than a simple value can be stored. It's like storing a variable to a text file. If you get a cookie from a site you're sure you've never been to, it's typically because you had an ad on a page which came from that site. E.g. if you go to foo.com which has an ad on its page which comes from bar.com (like IMG SRC="http://bar.com/ad_93.gif"), then bar.com can set a cookie as well. Note that you can configure both Netscape and Explorer to warn you when a site tries to set a cookie and prompt you if you want the cookie set or not. Alternatively, you can disable cookies completely. Netscape: Go to Edit/Preferences/Advanced, check "Warn me before accepting a cookie" and/or "Disable cookies". Explorer: Go to Extras/Internet options/Security/Customize/Cookies (I hope the path is correct, I only have the German Explorer here) --- Shep
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