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tallahasseedem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-17-06 07:34 PM
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How often you clear your cookies and other random thoughts...
I just opened my cookie file after getting a string of annoying pop-ups that would not go away. I am always amazed at the number of files that there are.

So how often do you clean out this file? And....just exactly how scary is it that people can access your computer through spyware?
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trof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-17-06 07:36 PM
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1. Is that the same as tossing your cookies?
Or something else?
;-)
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tallahasseedem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-17-06 07:38 PM
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3. Its anything you want it to be!
;)
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AccessGranted Donating Member (687 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-17-06 07:37 PM
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2. Probably Several Times A Day
I'm paranoid.
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Arugula Latte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-17-06 07:57 PM
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4. Question from a moron: How do you clear a cookie file?
I know how to clear the "history" -- but what is the cookie file usually under?
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-17-06 08:29 PM
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6. tools/internet options/delete cookies and delete files
:)
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Arugula Latte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-17-06 08:36 PM
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8. Thanks!
I'll try it ...

Hope I don't clear all info. off my hard drive -- that's something I'd probably do!
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-17-06 08:48 PM
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10. naw
Edited on Wed May-17-06 08:48 PM by Skittles
just beware, if you haven't done it in a while, deleting those temp files takes a bit of time
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-17-06 08:26 PM
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5. every two or three days
I'm a bit lazy
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NNadir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-17-06 08:31 PM
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7. More often than I chuck my cookies.
The last time I chucked my cookies was in 1974, in Ensenada, Mexico, after a long day of drinking 25 cent Tequila sunrises.

I have a thing for not vomiting.
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Mutley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-17-06 08:39 PM
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9. I hadn't for quite some time, but I just did.
:blush:
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-17-06 08:49 PM
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11. Once a week
along with running Spybot, AdAware, my antivirus, etc.
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