microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin

> Having selected certain sites to be included in the trusted Zone in
> IE6, and set them to keep my log in information so that I don't have
> to log in each time I access them; if I run CCleaner, with 'cookies'
> selected to scan, or I do an AV scan, it seems that those settings
> have been removed, and I have to enter the log in info again. I
> cannot determine whether it is some setting in either of those
> applications, or something in the settings of the OS (XPProSP2) that
> does not like one or the other of those applications. I must add that
> those sites are still showing as they were in the Trusted zone. Any
> help would be appreciated.

There is a lot of controversey over what can and can not be done with
cookies. They're "just" text files, but there are some nefarious uses
for them. In most but not al cases, how "bad" they are is in the eye of
the recipient and most are harmless or ever very useful as you are
aware.

Here are a couple links for your edification that seem to have pretty
good handles on them:

http://www.cookiecentral.com/faq/ an excellent FAQ & how-to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie
http://www.cookiecentral.com/c_concept.htm

Probably the worst thing about cookies for most people is it's possible
to amass thousands of them which makes for an incredibly long folder
list but they're small text files and take very little space in the
overall scheme of things.

I use WinPatrol to manage cookies (among other things); easy to set the
ones I want to keep and kill the rest. Lots of handy features. Also
free.

HTH
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Regards,

Twayne

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