Cookies:

I posted this on the windows 98 general discussion and no
answer. Should I clean out cookies and how often.Thanks, JJ

S
Wed Oct 22 03:26:50 CDT 2003

I wouldn't worry too much about the cookies as they can do no damage. If
you're concerned about privacy, clean them once and set IE privacy level to
Medium High. Repeat twice a year. I'm assuming that you have your firewall
and antivirus in place, and keep your system up to date with patches.

--
Svyatoslav Pidgorny, MVP, MCSE
-= F1 is the key =-


"JJ" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I posted this on the windows 98 general discussion and no
> answer. Should I clean out cookies and how often.Thanks, JJ

Robin
Wed Oct 22 06:38:26 CDT 2003

"JJ" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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> I posted this on the windows 98 general discussion and no
> answer. Should I clean out cookies and how often.Thanks, JJ

'Harmful Cookies'
It's good practice to do a regular (minimum weekly) scan for any malware
(including cookies that may be used as part of malware) using Ad-aware and
Spybot. If any are found, they should be quarantined or removed there and
then.

'Harmless Cookies'
Some sites use cookies to 'remember' your login details so that you don't
have to enter them every time you return. If you want to keep these, then
you won't want to clean out these cookies ever.
Some of your cookies will relate to sites which no longer exist, or whose
details have changed. So these will need to be cleaned out every so often -
at your leisure.

Some useful links about cookies:

http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/cookies.htm
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=283185
http://www.cookiecentral.com/faq/
http://www.generation.net/~hleboeuf/cookies.htm

anonymous
Wed Oct 22 14:33:38 CDT 2003

yes! definitly delete your cookies. I usually delete
mine every couple of weeks or sooner. The better off you
will be if you do it frequently.
lisa