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Every time I go to a particular website it puts an ms-dos program in my temp internet files. Then they put up pages they want me to see (personalized?). It has nothing to do with advertising. Question 1. How do they know I am on the site? (what is the identifier.) Question 2. If I turn off active x they can't do it. Is there a way to be anonomous on the interner

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: Every time I go to a particular website it puts an ms-dos program in my temp internet files. Then they put up pages they want me to see (personalized?). It has nothing to do with advertising. Question 1. How do they know I am on the site? (what is the identifier.) Question 2. If I turn off active x they can't do it. Is there a way to be anonomous on the interner?
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ActiveX is baaad. An ActiveX script can do just about anything that
it is possible to do to a computer. To protect yourself, you can set
security to "high" for all zones except "trusted" zones (put
Microsoft's windowsupdate.com in there, everything else "high
security". This will pretty much guarantee that no destructive
scripts will run on your machine.

Or, you can just use another browser that doesn't support ActiveX. I
use Internet Explorer only for downloading patches.

Another good thing to get is a Linksys cable/dsl router firewall.

http://www.linksys.com/press/press.asp?prid=93

There are sites that show you how to harden your computer. Like this
one:

http://uksecurityonline.com/
 
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: Every time I go to a particular website it puts an ms-dos program in my temp internet files. Then they put up pages they want me to see (personalized?). It has nothing to do with advertising. Question 1. How do they know I am on the site? (what is the identifier.) Question 2. If I turn off active x they can't do it. Is there a way to be anonomous on the interner
:
: thank you
:

ActiveX is baaad. An ActiveX script can do just about anything that
it is possible to do to a computer. To protect yourself, you can set
security to "high" for all zones except "trusted" zones (put
Microsoft's windowsupdate.com in there, everything else "high
security". This will pretty much guarantee that no destructive
scripts will run on your machine

Or, you can just use another browser that doesn't support ActiveX. I
use Internet Explorer only for downloading patches

Another good thing to get is a Linksys cable/dsl router firewall

http://www.linksys.com/press/press.asp?prid=9

There are sites that show you how to harden your computer. Like this
one

http://uksecurityonline.com
 
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