Maybe, I should have mentioned this earlier.
The automatic screening of cookies by IE6 and some firewalls is dependant upon P3P (Platform for Privacy Preferences).
Typically, a web site fills out a multiple-choice form about the information the web site collects. Then it is is coded into their web page. The privacy level selected in IE and/or firewall is then compared to the coded tag on the webpage and either the cookie is accepted or a privacy warning is issued to the viewer.
But it does have some weaknesses.
1) It is voluntary and
2) The information is not verified by any agency.
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Somewhat off-topic, some sites drop additional programs when we download files. These hog memory, disk space and processing power.
These programs are not considered viruses since they do no damage to your computer. Yet, they can slow your computer to a crawl, hog memory so that some programs will no longer load and use up valuable hard drive space.
For those who haven't done so, I would strongly suggest using Ad-aware found at
www.lavasoftusa.com.
There are other sites (I think the home site is in Germany at
www.lavasoft.de).
It is free and comes in many Languages.
I cannot recommend it highly enough. I run it every month to clean up my computer.
EDIT For the first time user, do not be surprised if you have a lot of these programs to delete... a 100 is not unusual. I have heard of over 800!
It is safe and reliable.
EDIT And it is very easy to use
[ October 25, 2002, 19:36: Message edited by: tbontob ]