Lost My Cookies

[MorseLady]

When I closed this computer down last night it was working OK.

When I came online today I found all my cookies have gone and I am not recognised by any of my forums etc. Of course I have a backup but that is not the point

The point is is this yet another XP issue? I never had this with earlier OS including Millenium.

[NooNoo]

Sounds like you have set ie to clear cookies when you close ie.

What are your privacy settings in ie set to?

[MorseLady]

My settings are unchanged and the same as they have been for the past five weeks since I bought this machine.

It's like someone has hacked in and deleted my cookies but XP has a firewall so that is out. It really scares me, I thought there was no need for a ZoneAlarm or Norton Firewall with XP but I wonder?

I am really brassed off with XP.

[NooNoo]

Originally posted by GranGeek
My settings are unchanged and the same as they have been for the past five weeks since I bought this machine.

It's like someone has hacked in and deleted my cookies but XP has a firewall so that is out. It really scares me, I thought there was no need for a ZoneAlarm or Norton Firewall with XP but I wonder?

I am really brassed off with XP.

I think I can tell you dont like xp as much as you like ME....

I think it highly unlikely you had someone hack in and delete just your cookies. Are your offline pages still available? Have your temporary internet files been tidied to?


I am just wondering if you ran something like adaware or a norton utility to tidy up and it was overzealous....

[MorseLady]

Yes, I did instal and run Norton Utilities last night and I ran Fresh Diagnose when I was sorting out my partition problem. I also use AdAware but was not running it.

I do have backups of my cookies but I will make sure I back them up immediately before running any disk utilities - I ran Chkdsk/f a few times last night too.

Thanks, that seems to have solved the mystery.