Cookies problem

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Alton Kingston

There are several news & informational websites that I have registered with that
I access almost daily. There are a few MSN Groups that I go to as well. For some
reason, this morning I am getting the following on some (but not all) of them:
""We are sorry, but you will need to enable cookies to use your Screen Name
with this site"". Or, after I fill in my name and password, it simply wont go
any further.

I have done nothing different since I visited them last, it just started
happening yesterday. I thought at first that maybe there was a problem on their
side (site maintenance, glitch, whatever...), but its still happening this
morning. I called a neighbor and asked her to try... no problem for her, so it
must be my computer. I have gone back and reset the Security and Privacy
sections in my browser to allow all cookies. I ran Adaware and Spybot, even ran
a full anti-virus check. Nothing... nada. This happens on both IE6 and Firefox.

Any ideas?
Thanks, MG
 
Alton Kingston said:
There are several news & informational websites that I have registered with that
I access almost daily. There are a few MSN Groups that I go to as well. For some
reason, this morning I am getting the following on some (but not all) of them:
""We are sorry, but you will need to enable cookies to use your Screen Name
with this site"". Or, after I fill in my name and password, it simply wont go
any further.

I have done nothing different since I visited them last, it just started
happening yesterday. I thought at first that maybe there was a problem on their
side (site maintenance, glitch, whatever...), but its still happening this
morning. I called a neighbor and asked her to try... no problem for her, so it
must be my computer. I have gone back and reset the Security and Privacy
sections in my browser to allow all cookies. I ran Adaware and Spybot, even ran
a full anti-virus check. Nothing... nada. This happens on both IE6 and Firefox.

Any ideas?
Thanks, MG
Click to expand...

You probably deleted the relevant cookies. I use
http://www.webroot.com/products/windowwasher/
which cleans my computer in a few seconds and allows me to keep the
cookies which I need for the efficient running of my PC.

Regards,
Emrys Davies.
 
Alton Kingston said:
But they should be reset when I go to the relevant page. Something is not
happening right.
Click to expand...
My Firewall Zone Alarm, has cookie blocking options. Give it a look, your
settings may have changed.
 
Dick Mahar said:
My Firewall Zone Alarm, has cookie blocking options. Give it a look, your
settings may have changed.
Click to expand...


BINGO !!!!
Somehow the Cookies section of ZoneAlarm had been altered.

Thanks!!!!
 
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