[NTLUG:Discuss] Another worry for net users

[Fred]

From the Wall Street Journal:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704416904575502261335698370.html?KEYWORDS=flash+cookies


'Cookies' cause bitter backlash

excerpt:
"Another suit, filed earlier this month, accuses Fox Entertainment Group and the 
American idol.com 


website of using a new kind of cookie—known as a Flash cookie—that can 
"re-spawn" tracking files 


that users have deleted, without users' knowledge."

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OK, folks, read the article, then go to the Adobe site at:
http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html

to see what flash cookies are stored in your computer and for their 
administration. It is a good tool.
If you are running Windows I do not know how to prevent flash cookies from being 
stored. Maybe 


use Firefox and install the Flashblock add-on. 


Linux users go to:
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tips/6706/1/
and
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/6709/1/
for a tutorial on this issue that shows a couple of easy fixes.

Fred