On Monday 14 February 2005 02:15 pm, Rajev Mhasawade wrote: > Hi all, > Well after being criticised for my irrelavant question i need help this > time! :) How do i keep off 'spies' from Linux?I visit this site > (indiafm.com)regularly which downloads a cookie (or something which is > identified as 'DirectHit' by Spybot) and identified as 'medium threat' > by Spybot. > I tried and tried but couldnt get any firewall like Zone Alarm.All > they have is confusing interfaces hard to decipher anything!Plz > suggest something.. > Rajev > Rajev: Don't worry about cookies. If you are, then use the options for cookie management built into your browser and force all cookies to be "session" cookies. There is nothing inherently "dangerous" about cookies... they are just text files. The problem arises in how they are used. If you permit cookies across sites, you open yourself up for more profiling, etc.
