Replies to post #8788 on Computer Learning (HELP)

[Bruce A Thompson]

Cush

By me on that one. I would allow the cookies and then Adaware them out after the session.

BT

[j.c.]

You must allow their cookies to use their service (same with their email) but not usually their advertisers. Allow yahoo, deny the rest and see if that works. If you talk nearly every night I would just leave them... they don't hurt anything. If they bother you just dump them when you're done and repeat the procedure next time you log on.

[gottfried]

Cush, re cookies: I could not get to the CircuitCity site this am because my pc would not accept their cookie. That made me look at the various programs I have that try to control cookies...

Zone Alarm Pro: I set it to allow all cookies

Pest Patrol: it is set to allow even bad cookies, but deletes them immediately after accepting them

Mozilla Firefox: I set it to accept cookies for the originating site only.

Any bad cookies that slip through will probably be caught by my daily running of Spybot and Adaware.

Gottfried

[lostcowboy]

Hi Cush, should not be a problem. If you are using IE6, click on tools then internet options. Click on the privacy tab. There are several ways to control cookies here. You have the default settings, and you have custom settings. Being that you have used Spywareblaster you are in custom settings. You can click on sites, and add yahoo.com to the allowed sites.
http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy/us/cookies/details.html You may have to add other web sites used by yahoo. Spywareblaster puts sites that it feels are collecting to much info, in the blocked sites list. I believe that list overrides anything else you do with the privacy controls, But I am not sure. You can click on default, and get back the slider control, and play with it. Or you can click on advance, and set up first party and third party settings, there. If you decide to use the advance settings, I would allow first party, and block third party, and put a checkmark in always allowing session cookies. Hope this helps. Found a Los Angeles County web page, that should help. http://www.ladpss.org/help/cookie_ie6.cfm