Restricting Cookies

[Arpan]

I am working on Windows 2000 Professional & am using Internet Explorer 6.0
as the default web browser. Is there anyway by which IE can restrict cookies
from certain sites? For e.g. I don't want the website www.abcd.com to create
any cookies in my machine when I visit that site. Can this be done? If so,
how?

Thanks,

Arpan

 

[Mike Burgess]

Arpan,
Blocking Unwanted Cookies with IE 6
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/cookies.htm
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Mike Burgess [MVP Windows Shell\User] http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/
Blocking Spyware, Adware, Parasites, Hijackers, Trojans, with a HOSTS file
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm [updated 11-08-03]
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[Arpan]

Thanks, Mike, for your advice. I had been to the site you suggested but was
taken aback after reading the entire article. For e.g., under the heading
"Recommended Settings", the very 1st sentence says

Open Internet Options | Privacy, click on the Advanced button. Place a check
in "Override automatic cookie handling". Set "First Party Cookies" to
Prompt, set "Third Party Cookies" to Block.

But I don't see any "Advanced" button in Internet Options | Privacy!!
Neither I find any "First Party Cookies" or "Third Party Cookies"!! What's
going awry?? Is something wrong in (or with) the article?

Thanks once again,

Regards,

Arpan

Arpan,
Blocking Unwanted Cookies with IE 6
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/cookies.htm
____________________________________________________________
Mike Burgess [MVP Windows Shell\User] http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/
Blocking Spyware, Adware, Parasites, Hijackers, Trojans, with a HOSTS file
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm [updated 11-08-03]
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I am working on Windows 2000 Professional & am using Internet Explorer 6.0
as the default web browser. Is there anyway by which IE can restrict cookies
from certain sites? For e.g. I don't want the website www.abcd.com to create
any cookies in my machine when I visit that site. Can this be done? If so,
how?

Thanks,

Arpan

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP]

Thanks, Mike, for your advice. I had been to the site you suggested
but was taken aback after reading the entire article. For e.g., under
the heading "Recommended Settings", the very 1st sentence says

Open Internet Options | Privacy, click on the Advanced button. Place
a check in "Override automatic cookie handling". Set "First Party
Cookies" to Prompt, set "Third Party Cookies" to Block.

But I don't see any "Advanced" button in Internet Options | Privacy!!
Neither I find any "First Party Cookies" or "Third Party Cookies"!!
What's going awry?? Is something wrong in (or with) the article?

Thanks once again,

Regards,

Arpan

I have an Advance button in Internet Options | Privacy.

 

[Mike Burgess]

Arpan,
No there is nothing wrong with the article ....
Do you have any Registry restrictions in place? (check both places)

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Control
Panel]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Control
Panel]
____________________________________________________________
Mike Burgess [MVP Windows Shell\User] http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/
Blocking Spyware, Adware, Parasites, Hijackers, Trojans, with a HOSTS file
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm [updated 11-08-03]
Please post replies to this Newsgroup, email address is invalid
--

Thanks, Mike, for your advice. I had been to the site you suggested but was
taken aback after reading the entire article. For e.g., under the heading
"Recommended Settings", the very 1st sentence says

Open Internet Options | Privacy, click on the Advanced button. Place a check
in "Override automatic cookie handling". Set "First Party Cookies" to
Prompt, set "Third Party Cookies" to Block.

But I don't see any "Advanced" button in Internet Options | Privacy!!
Neither I find any "First Party Cookies" or "Third Party Cookies"!! What's
going awry?? Is something wrong in (or with) the article?

Thanks once again,

Regards,

Arpan

Arpan,
Blocking Unwanted Cookies with IE 6
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/cookies.htm
____________________________________________________________
Mike Burgess [MVP Windows Shell\User] http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/
Blocking Spyware, Adware, Parasites, Hijackers, Trojans, with a HOSTS file
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm [updated 11-08-03]
Please post replies to this Newsgroup, email address is invalid
--

I am working on Windows 2000 Professional & am using Internet Explorer 6.0
as the default web browser. Is there anyway by which IE can restrict cookies
from certain sites? For e.g. I don't want the website www.abcd.com to create
any cookies in my machine when I visit that site. Can this be done? If so,
how?

Thanks,

Arpan