I have been through the set up with my personal advisor, senor Burgess and should be all set up ok. The browser allows scripting and prompts for cookies. My point is this just came up out of the blue. I have NEVER seen a cookie come out of an email. Yes the email was html, but have received those many times before without incident. Always something isn't there.
Al
At 01:14 AM 2/14/2003, you wrote:
On Thursday 13 February 2003 10:02 pm, Al Taylor wrote:
> Attention all Techies,
> Just received an E-mail that had about 5 requests to set cookies on my
> puter. This is the first time I have ever had that happen. All I did was
> receive it. Never clicked on it or anything. It downloaded into my in box
> and the cookie requests popped up on their own. I was under the impression
> that couldn't happen. I am sure it is me. What switch have I failed to
> turn off? Using Eudora 5.2
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Al
My guess is you are using HTML email. I personally prefer to turn off that
feature, - to help reduce the possibility of activating a received
virus/trojan.
Another thing, - perhaps you have cookies enabled in your browser. I also
prefer to disable cookies, turn off Java, and Javascript. Yes, - I know some
sites won't appear right, - but I don't care.
Computer security is more important to me, - and if a web site author doesn't
know how to present a good page, without using all those "flashy gizmo's",
then maybe I won't trust his page to be "clean".
Was that any help?
Simply put, - plain text email is safe, - HTML or other active content is not.
That's it.
Cheers,
Jorgen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ps, - another reason many web site authors like to use java/javascript, and
cookies, is that these "tools" can help them considerably, in the activity of
profiling you, - the user. (Sometimes called "Data Mining").
Privacy, you say?.......
(but that's another story)
