On Thursday 13 February 2003 10:02 pm, Al Taylor wrote: > Attention all Techies, > Just received an E-mail that had about 5 requests to set cookies on my > puter. This is the first time I have ever had that happen. All I did was > receive it. Never clicked on it or anything. It downloaded into my in box > and the cookie requests popped up on their own. I was under the impression > that couldn't happen. I am sure it is me. What switch have I failed to > turn off? Using Eudora 5.2 > > Thanks in advance, > Al
My guess is you are using HTML email. I personally prefer to turn off that feature, - to help reduce the possibility of activating a received virus/trojan. Another thing, - perhaps you have cookies enabled in your browser. I also prefer to disable cookies, turn off Java, and Javascript. Yes, - I know some sites won't appear right, - but I don't care. Computer security is more important to me, - and if a web site author doesn't know how to present a good page, without using all those "flashy gizmo's", then maybe I won't trust his page to be "clean". Was that any help? Simply put, - plain text email is safe, - HTML or other active content is not. That's it. Cheers, Jorgen [EMAIL PROTECTED] ps, - another reason many web site authors like to use java/javascript, and cookies, is that these "tools" can help them considerably, in the activity of profiling you, - the user. (Sometimes called "Data Mining"). Privacy, you say?....... (but that's another story)
