very interesting

[chesters1]

now i have finally got my firewall working in xp ,i usually use medium settings (default) but decided to set it to high :cool: just opening my mail intercepted 13 cookies from 6 items of mail ,what else is coming with the postman

even browsing e`bay has cookies flying in all directions most of them not from e`bay

 

[ 07. October 2002, 08:11 PM: Message edited by: chesters1 ]

[Dan]

I installed Mc Afees firewall it was so efficient it stopped all internet traffic completely! I got so pinged of with their useless help that Ive gone for AVg and Zonealarm, works fine!

dan

[chesters1]

with nortons you can allow cookies by default to certain sites you use a lot ,but it can warn you whilst on that site of any others ,even using THIS site a cookie from "skrinkle" was detected and stopped

[loonyl]

chesters1:

with nortons you can allow cookies by default to certain sites you use a lot ,but it can warn you whilst on that site of any others ,even using THIS site a cookie from "skrinkle"                        was detected and stopped      

I'm sure M$ was reported about it (by XP) before you found out.

 

Ditch the B****** , Try Linux.

 

Liam

ps for the virus trappers use

http://housecall.antivirus.com/housecall/s.../start_corp.asp

forget the rest

http://www.grc.com is good too.

But don't spend any money on AV s/w,

leave that to the paranoid.

 

[ 08. October 2002, 05:25 AM: Message edited by: loonyl ]