I'd be willing to bet that NoAdware lists tracking cookies as critical.
This is absolutely misleading if they do.
Only the host domain that stored the cookie on your system has access to
that cookie. The way tracking cookies work is the site you visit sells
virtual real estate to advertisers in the third-party form, then these
advertisers store cookies on every one's PC who views that site, and since
the same advertisers also buy space on millions of other sites they are able
to "track" your habits. The habits they track are what sites you visit and
what products you look at while on those sites, that way they can advertise
products that are tailor-made to your habits, which might make you more
likely to buy certain products.
Third-party cookies can be dealt with fairly nicely by setting IE's Privacy
settings to Medium-High. If you are using Netacape 8.0, go to Tools >
Options > Site Controls and put a checkmark next to "For originating site
only" under "Allow cookies." In Firefox, go to Tools > Options > Privacy,
click on Cookies, place a checkmark next to "For originating site only."
You can also install a firewall that helps manage cookies as well.
The cookies that you really need to be concerned about are ones that store
personally identifiable information. These types of cookies are the ones
that can lead to identity theft, and must be blocked at all cost.
Alan
"MsMouse" wrote:
> I also started using Microsoft AntiSpyWare and so far it does block popup,
> however I also use NoAdware. I ran Microsoft first with zero catches, then
> ran NoAdware and that antispyware program caught two file, one not critical
> and the other dangerous which it removed. Somehow I believe Microsoft has a
> lot more work and system program development before the final product release
> for us "Windows" users.
> --
> Msmouse
>
>
> "UninetCom" wrote:
>
> > I have succesfully installed beta Microsoft AnitSpyWare. It works and block
> > many popup even this forum. These are good. However, It did not block many
> > bad popup such as httpp://pop2.2ZOo.net/. Why ?
> > I seems to me that MS AntiSpyWare not really effective.
> >
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