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No Cookie For You!
I'll no longer be using UFie mail, as it's host - everyone.net - wants to slap a cookie down that my spyware protection feels is a wee bit too greedy. Although I've been on that the longest out of all of the web mail sites that I'm *still* on, I agree. Bad cookie!
I've also noticed an extreme slowdown on MySpace, which regularly serves up a half-dozen rotten cookies just for logging in. I think the site is a bit miffed that it can no longer do so.
I've actually got a two-pronged approach to dealing with it, and the later piece is what shut of the ufie.org email - first off, Ad-Aware (and a few other tools) isolates and then removes the evil-doers. Before I actually let it get rid of those critical cookies, I look through and check the address from whence they came. The root of the address - the blah dot com or blip dot net or whathaveyou dot wot - gets added to the list of restricted sites in tehIntarwebExploder. The security for the restricted sites is set to a higher level than high, with everything disabled, hamstrung, and so forth - in other words, the "Just Say No" school of thought.
I've also noticed an extreme slowdown on MySpace, which regularly serves up a half-dozen rotten cookies just for logging in. I think the site is a bit miffed that it can no longer do so.
I've actually got a two-pronged approach to dealing with it, and the later piece is what shut of the ufie.org email - first off, Ad-Aware (and a few other tools) isolates and then removes the evil-doers. Before I actually let it get rid of those critical cookies, I look through and check the address from whence they came. The root of the address - the blah dot com or blip dot net or whathaveyou dot wot - gets added to the list of restricted sites in tehIntarwebExploder. The security for the restricted sites is set to a higher level than high, with everything disabled, hamstrung, and so forth - in other words, the "Just Say No" school of thought.