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site. When a user revisits the site, he/she may be greeted by name and, perhaps
some setting selected last time will be applied, such as the language, page
design elements and/or the content.
Acronis Privacy Expert Suite enables you to delete unnecessary cookies. You
can keep the cookies you need, as the Acronis Privacy Expert Suite can
choose what cookies to delete and which to save.
Which cookies are unnecessary and what is their threat? In the aggregate, cookies
can provide full traces of where and how you surfed the Internet.
There are many scandals discussed in the media where network companies have
been gathering user information and buying preferences. It is widely known that
companies like A.S.A.P. Investigations, Dig Dirt and Infoseekers offer other
companies personal user information, including biographical data, bank account
information, phone numbers, property, health, and/or Social Security card
numbers for as little as $100 (source:
a=2443,00.asp
Graven).
If Internet Explorer is your default browser, cookies are kept in the
C:\Windows\Cookies folder under Windows 95/98/Me, and in the С:\Documents
and Settings\<user name>\Cookies folder under Windows NT/2000/XP.
Windows XP Cookies folder content
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 others:
1. select Cookies from the Internet Components group;
2. select «Addresses» and click the Show URLs button;
3. uncheck boxes next to the cookies you want to keep after running the PC or
components clean-up utility.
Fully cleaning your PC, Acronis Privacy Expert Suite will destroy all cookies
except those protected.
Chapter 4 Separate PC components clean-up
PC Magazine
– , January, 16, 2001, "Leave Me Alone" by Matthew
http://www.pcmag.com/article/0,2997,
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