ie6 assistance needed 2004-04-05 - By Kris Michael Krieger
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A "good cookie", such as the Caligari Forum or Sales info, and say, the
info for getting into Renderosity, are clearly marked - you can set those
to "Read Only". Any cookie that is ID's as "anyuser" or "anonymous" is
poison (IMO).
ALso, the REgistry has to be scanned for spyware references, which is one
of the things AdAware does.
ALso, tho', you have to do a FileFind to find all those stupid "index.dat"
diles that Windows tosses around willy-nilly. What I do is purge all of
them - IOW, open them, select all the contents, delete the contents, save,
and *thwen* go back and set them to Read Only. This will prevent WindBlows
from keeping records of URLS (kept not only in those "temporary internet
files" folders, but also ion that stupid "history" folder, and so on).
Then, get rid of all those "recently used files" lists, unless you really
*really* need to keep a few. Two steps.
(1) delete all the registry keys (via RegEdit.exe) for "RecentFiles" or "MRU"
(2) there is info (or at least, there *was*) on the Microsoft site that
told you what to whange in the Registry to squealch all Recent files lists,
but I can't find the reference right now, can't s3earch because I'm having
a bad eye problem (2 weeks so far) and can't read well enough or for long
enough to do searches. B ut maybe some intrepiod person can find it...
Finally, if you're using IE6.X, you have to note that it handles cookies
differently from 5.X. It puts Cookie handling into a separate category,
called "Privacy", under the Options menu. To nix all cookies, you have to
go into there. I don't think it bothers to actually giove you the option
any more of making IE ask whether you want to allow , for example, session
cookies. IOW, it's just yet another way of trying to take control out of
your hands. So now, even if you want sites in your trusted zone to allow
cookies (so that you can, for example, go right into Caligari forums), you
have tp go into this new category and manyally enter, for example,
"caligari.com", into yet another separate "cookie override" box. It's
stupid, it's cumbersome, and it ends up making paeople allow cookies if
they're not aware of the change. But hay, it's MicroSoft....
HTH
- Kris
At 12:08 PM 04-04-2004, you wrote:
> > You'll probably want to download a program called Adaware, and run it on
> > your pc, it's good at finding and cleaning up that stuff.
> >
> > Ted Southard
> > DigitalFlux Entertainment, LLC
> > Ted@(protected)
> > http://www.DigitalFlux.com
> >
>
>I concurr, Adaware 6.0, also read the instructions on how to make adaware do
>a deep scan.
>you can find it on cnet.com in their download section.
>It also crunches cookies too that might be confused as "data miners",
>getting rid of cookies is not a bad thing but you might have to reenter
>stored info for Forums that use cookies (username/passwords).
>
>~~Richard K~~
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