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Technology Stocks : PROGRAMMER'S PARADISE (PROG) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Zeev Hed who wrote (217)	1/12/1999 12:07:00 PM
From: Bart Hoenes	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2383

Sorry Zeev. They're not your cookies. They belong to the site that wants to put them on your machine. Just because you don't allow them to drop cookies doesn't mean they can't read information about you (such as email id) from the TCP/IP connection stream.

To: Zeev Hed who wrote (217)	1/12/1999 1:39:00 PM
From: Crossy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2383

There are some small utilities out there that are supposed to tackle the cookies problem for you without you having to setup your browser to refuse cookies and refuse each single cookie sent to you. When I got more time, I'll try to look for the ZD-Report in PC Magazine on that topic. It should work transparently with any browser and hinder cookies to be placed in your system at the same time. regards CROSSY

To: Zeev Hed who wrote (217)	1/13/1999 2:11:00 AM
From: Carl R.	Respond to of 2383

The program I have just loaded, atguard.com, is very interesting. It does not block cookies on the way in, so the cookies.txt file fills up. Rather it blocks them on the way out. This should be fine. As I said, you can elect to permit them to be sent to specific sites if you like. If you wish to post to yahoo you have to permit cookies, for example. I note that the program also blocks refer requests. Some sites (including pparadise.com) ask for the referring site. As I said it also blocks banners and ads. It does OK here, but it doesn't get them all. Finally, it includes a personal firewall. In the past I have seen my computer spontaneously attempt to connect to the internet, and I have always wondered what program is attempting to send data to whom. Now maybe I will catch the culprit. Carl LATER NOTE: Exactly 2 minutes after posting the above, RealPlayer attempted to contact its home. I did not activate it directly or indirectly. It won't be doing that again. Consider that communication link terminated. I wonder what other programs will take it on themselves to attempt to call home without permission?