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  1. August 31st, 2002, 12:46 PM #1
    MorseLady
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    Unhappy Lost My Cookies

    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.
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  2. August 31st, 2002, 03:21 PM #2
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    Sounds like you have set ie to clear cookies when you close ie.

    What are your privacy settings in ie set to?
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  3. August 31st, 2002, 03:54 PM #3
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    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.
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  4. August 31st, 2002, 04:08 PM #4
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    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....
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  5. August 31st, 2002, 06:18 PM #5
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    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.
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