A few months ago, I introduced the Beta of a small app named "Cookie Handler".
Based on the feedback I received from a handful Beta-testers, I now have ready
the second - and hopefully final - Beta of this small app. I now call for
people who could be interested in testing the newest version. Please get in
touch, at the below Email address, if you would like to participate.
Please NOTE: Due to different reasons, the ones that participated in the first
Beta-cycle - and who still wants to join - should kindly contact me again.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
WHAT IS THE COOKIE HANDLER APP,
And What Can It Do For You?
Close to a year ago, Microsoft Changed the way they store cookies on your
computer. Cookies, are small pieces of information, that are frequently stored
on your local system, when you browse the web. They generally hold only
temporary - and totally harmless - information. If you are shopping on a
NetShop, every time you drop a product in your basket, the information is
stored in the cookie related to that webshop. Some webpages are cleverly
designed, that they will clean up their mess, when you leaqve the page.
Unfortunately, a lot of pages don't do that, and litterally peppers your system
with a ton of cookies. Useful ones, and useless ones.
Fact is, even if the Cookies in general are harmless - and are NOT any kind of
software - still they can pose a security risk on your system. First of all, it
might be possible to derive certain personal information (like passwords) from
Cookies on your system. This might depend greatly on the design of the actual
cookie and website. Another risk in having the Cookies hanging around, is that
some of them - specially third-party ones - might open up things on your
computer, that are of interest for hackers.
If you ever have felt your system slowing down over time, or when you have
visited certain webpages, you MIGHT be quite surprised, what a Cookies
clean-out can do for you.
Back in time, the Cookies were all stored with a readable filename. But after
the change Microsoft made, it is no longer possible to derive from the filename
itself, which website is the owner of any individual Cookie.
The Cookie Handler app, will list all the owner's of the Cookies stored on your
system, from Internet Explorer. They will be listed in an alphabetical order.
You now have the chance of selecting the cookies you don't want to keep - in a
multi-selection list. Thereafter, you are offered the chance of deleting the
selected items. Or, you can copy the list to the clipboard. First the list is
on the clipboard, open your Internet Explorer. Go to Tools, and choose Options.
Ctrl-Tab twice, and tab to where it says "sites". Press Enter, and paste the
contents of the list into the edit box. Then tab to the "Block" button, and hit
Space. OK your way out of the dialogs. You now have successfully blocked these
cookies from being stored on your computer, in the future. (Please, don't do
that, with cookies that store info like the shopping cart, or which will hold
log-in info.) Blocking Cookies, will give you a far less complicated browsing
experience, since many Cookies can give a lot of adware to flush your system.
Welcome to a Beta!
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