How can I stop those darn cookies from loading up on my computer?

Question

How can I stop those darn cookies from loading up on my computer?

Answer 1

Download CCleaner for free. I always delete them because I share my PC with other people and I don't like them to get in my accounts.

On my webpage if you type Cleaner you will find it, or in google.

Answer 2

There is an options menu when you go on your IExplorer or Firefox from where you can select to accept or decline cookies from cites so you don't get access to them and they dont get access to you. For the sites from which you do get cookies, You can use Disk Cleanup from your start menu in the programs then accessories menu. Or in the IE or FF options go there should be an option to clear all the cookies.

Answer 3

How to disable cookies in Internet Explorer

To disable cookies Internet Explorer 7.0/6.x

1. Select "Tools"

2. Select "Internet Options".

3. Open the "Privacy" tab.

4. In the "Settings" area - to disable cookies move the slider bar to "Block All Cookies" (at the top).

5. Click OK.

How to disable cookies in Firefox

To disable cookies in Firefox 2.0

1. Open the Tools menu.

2. Select Options.

3. Select the Privacy tab.

4. Remove the check mark from "Accept cookies" field.

5. Click OK.

To disable cookies in Firefox 1.x

1. Open the Tools menu.

2. Select Options.

3. Select the Privacy tab.

4. Click the View cookies in the "Cookies" area and remove the check mark from the box next to "Allow sites to set cookies".

5. Click OK.

How to disable cookies in Mozilla

To disable cookies in Mozilla 1.7:

1. Open the Edit menu and choose Preferences.

2. Under the Privacy & Security category, choose Cookies. (If no subcategories are visible, double-click the category to expand the list.)

3. Put the radio buttons for "Block cookies".

4. Click "OK".

How can I disable cookies in Opera?

To disable cookies Opera 9.0

1. Open the Tools menu.

2. Select Preferences

3. OPen the "Advanced" tab

4. Select "Cookies" item.

5. Put the radio button for "Never accept cookies" option.

6. Click OK

To disable cookies Opera 8.x

1. Open the Tools menu.

2. Select Preferences to open Dialog box.

3. Open the Advanced tab.

4. Select "Cookies".

5. Select "Refuse all cookies" in Normal cookies combo box and/or Third-party cookies combo box depending on your needs.

6. Click OK

How can I disable cookies in Netscape?

To disable cookies Netscape 8.x

1. Select Tools -> Options.

2. Select "Site Controls".

3. Open the "Site List" tab.

4. In the "Web features" area, remove the check mark next to "Allow cookies" option.

5. Click "OK".

To disable cookies Netscape 7.x

1. Open the Edit menu.

2. Select Preferences to open Dialog box.

3. Select the Privacy & Security to open sub-menu.

4. Select the Cookies item.

5. Select "Disable cookies".

6. Click "OK".

Disable cookies : Disable browser cookies : Disable cookies Internet Explorer

   What are cookies? A "cookie" is a small piece of information sent by a web server to store on a web browser so it can later be read back from that browser. This is useful for having the browser remember some specific information.

What are they used for ? An example is when a browser stores your passwords and user ID's. They are also used to store preferences of start pages, both Microsoft and Netscape use cookies to create personal start pages. Common cookies which companies use are find info are listed below:

Online Ordering Systems.An online ordering system could be developed using cookies that would remember what a person wants to buy, this way if a person spends three hours ordering CDs at your site and suddenly has to get off the net they could quit the browser and return weeks or even years later and still have those items in their shopping basket.

Site Personalization. This is one of the most beneficial uses, let's say a person comes to the MSNBC site but doesn't want to see any sports news. They allow people to select this as an option, from then on (until the cookie expires) they wouldn't see sports news. This is also usefull for start pages.

Website Tracking. Here is a hot button! A lot of people think it is an invasion of privacy, if a web site designer wanted to see what interests them. Site tracking can show you "Dead End Paths", places in your website that people go to and then wander off because they don't have any more interesting links to hit. It can also give you more accurate counts of how many people have been to pages on your site. You could differentiate 50 unique people seeing your site from one person hitting the reload button 50 times.

Targeted Marketing. This is probably one of the main uses of cookies, they can be used to build up a profile of where you go what adverts you click on, this information is then used to target adverts at you, which they think are of interest, companies also use cookies to store which adverts have been displayed so the same advert does not get displayed twice. Doubleclick's use of cookies.

User ID's.In Internet Explorer the first part of the cookie is your windows log in name, It's not certain if this is passed on to the server.

How Do They Work A command line in the HTML of a document tell the browser to set a cookie of a certain name or value. Here is an example of some script used to set a cookie. Set-Cookie: NAME=VALUE; expir es=DATE; path=PATH; domain=DOMAIN_NAME; secure Cookies are usually run from CGI scripts, but they can also be set or read by Javascript.

Security?An HTTP Cookie cannot be used to get data from your hard drive, get your email address or steal sensitive information about your person. Early implementations of Java and JavaScript could allow people to do this but for the most part these security leaks have been plugged. But HTTP Cookie can be used to track where you travel over a particular site, This site tracking can be easily done without using cookies as well, using cookies just makes the tracking data a little more consistent. If you want to disallow cookies you can do so with version 3.0 or greater of Netscape. Go to the Options Menu Select the Network Preferences Menu Item From the window that appears Select Protocols Locate the Section Show an Alert Before Check the box labeled Accepting a Cookie From now on you will get an Alert box telling you that a server is trying to set a cookie at your browser. It will tell you what the cookie value is and how long it will last before it is deleted

Answer 4

On your control panel you can use the "Internet Options" to block cookies. Select "Privacy" from the Internet Options and set the Setting for the Internet Zone to the highest. But some websites (not harmful ones) requires to activate cookies.

Answer 5

Cookies by themselves are NOT a bad thing.

They are created by websites to make it easier for them to remember things that you have done in the past (counters), or your information locally on your machine so you dont have to type them in again.

You should delete a cookie if it is saving your

Passwords

Credit Card Information

Personal Information

Etc

You might try FireFox.  It does better with limiting cookies and phishing attacks than IE