Alan Guy requested further information, so here goes;

Many web sites try to put cookies on your hard drive.  You can see how
many you've been burdened with by using "find" and searching for
cookies.txt

Double click on the file that appears and everything you see after the
words "do not edit" are cookies you've accepted.  It IS safe to delete
everything in this file back to "do not edit"(and I would think that the
whole file could be blanked out safely).  If you delete this file it
will be rebuilt and you'll be back where you started.

There is provision in Netscape preferences to either accept/ask before
accepting/reject all cookies.  If you select "ask" you'll be driven
insane by the constant barrage of GUI's asking permission to accept
them.  It's actually kind of interesting to try this option to see just
how many cookies are thrown your way while surfing.  If you choose to
reject all cookies, many sights will stop you telling you that you've
got to take them.  The real game comes when you accept all cookies.

Use find to search for "cookies.txt"(without quotation marks).  Right
click on the file(s) that turn up.  Select properties.  There is a box
you can check called "read only."  This locks the file so that nothing
can write to it.  select apply-OK and you're done.  The fact that your
browser accepted the cookie satisfies the website you're on and nothing
can be written to the now locked up cookie file.  The website will keep
trying to read the cookie file as you move around it and finding nothing
will keep laying unwritten cookies on you.  You'll never see this
happening and you'll never have a cookie, unless........

There is a sneaker in the windows file.  Open windows in my computer or
explorer and you'll find a folder called "Temporary Internet Files."
Somehow this file picks up your trail if you use Internet Explorer or
Netscape.  Open it.  It blatantly shows you the cookies it's accepted
for you.  Click on "file", "select all."  Click on edit and delete
them.  Back up to your windows folder.  Right click on "Temporary
Internet Files."  Select properties and as before, check the "read only"
box.  Click apply-OK and you system is now cookie protected.  This
system takes no HD space, costs nothing, and works.  May the only
cookies you get be chocolate chip.

Art Cassel

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