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guest - June 1st, 2009 10:33 PM

I read somewhere that creators of adware use cookies to store information about users. Is this true and if so, how can this practice be eliminated? [br]

guest - June 1st, 2009 10:57 PM

The answer to this is yes. Advertisers will use cookies to store information as to users and what they do. Any time you visit a website, a cookie is saved to your hard drive. In this cookie information, including your name, IP address, website you visited, and the theme of the website (based on website description), is recorded. After this, when you revisit that website, the cookie is loaded by the browser, and more information is added. Then before you know it, you will start seeing ads that are based on the theme of that website, are shown on your screen. [br][br]If you wish to stop this practice, you can adjust your browser settings so as not to store cookies on your hard drive. You can go into Tools and select Internet Options. Then select the Privacy tab. When you click the Privacy tab, you have to click the Advanced tab. Make sure the "Override automatic cookie handling" is not checked. Then you will be promoted to allow cookies or not. If you don't want to go through this, just make sure the "Override automatic cookie handling" is checked, but under both First-party Cookies and Third-party Cookies, make sure the Block circle is checked. This will block any cookies from being saved to your hard drive. You can also uncheck "Always allow session cookies" as well. [br][br]You can also go to Windows Explorer and located the Cookies directory. Then delete all the cookies. You may have to do this once or twice a week. If you are not familiar with this, or are not use to it, you may forget it. This is why setting the cookies in the browser makes more since. [br][br][br][br][br][br] [br]

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