Downloaded Components - ACRONIS PRIVACYEXPERT 2003 User Manual

If Netscape Navigator is your default browser, cookies are kept in the single
cookies.txt file in the user profile folder – by default in C:\Documents and
Settings\<user name>\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\<profile name>.
You can protect selected cookies and delete all other:
1. select Cookies from the Internet Clean-up group;
2. select «Protected Cookies»; check boxes near cookies you want to keep
after PC or separate components clean-up.
Fully cleaning your PC, Acronis PrivacyExpert will destroy all cookies
except those protected.
«Protected Cookies» setting
3.1.3

Downloaded Components

In this Guide Downloaded Components refer to ActiveX elements. These can
be installed on a PC without the user's knowledge as various sites are visited.
ActiveX elements enable dynamic content on the web pages instead of just
static viewing. ActiveX elements can provide Internet access to video and
cartoons, enable complex controls and menus, and/or organize user's
interaction with the site in many complex ways.
The threat of ActiveX elements is that they can be used malevolently. Using an
ActiveX element, its creator can get access to your PC resources. ActiveX
elements can be used to search your hard disk for passwords, to your ISP site,
to damage or delete disk files or folders, or to format a disk or make
computers inoperable in a wide variety of ways.
Downloaded ActiveX components clean-up enables you to delete installed
elements that may have doubtful use. If you have accidentally downloaded an
Chapter 3 : Separate PC Components Clean-up
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