Privacy Protection for Internet use Cookie setting Trilogy

BKJIA exclusive Article] cookies are actually small data packets that contain information about your surfing habits and facilitate future operations, however, the website that understands cookies on the Internet will be known later. For this reason, we still need to learn to disable cookies to ensure the security of the Internet. However, it has the following security issues:

For applications, cookies are another form of user input, so they are easily obtained and used by others illegally. Because the Cookie is stored on your computer, you can at least view the information stored in the Cookie. If you want to, you can modify the Cookie before the browser sends it to you. Therefore, do not store confidential information in cookies, such as user names, passwords, and credit card numbers. Do not save content that should not be controlled by users in cookies, or that may be controlled by others who steal cookies.

Another concern is that cookies are transmitted between browsers and servers in plain text. Anyone who can intercept Web communication can read cookies.

Therefore, you can use the following three methods to disable a Cookie:

I. IE option settings

1. Start IE.

2. on the "Tools" menu, click "Internet Options" to open the "Internet Options" dialog box.

3. Click the "privacy" tab to move the slider to a higher privacy level. If you move to the top of the page, select "block all cookies". In this case, the system blocks the cookies of all websites and the Website Cannot read the existing cookies on the computer.

Ii. attribute settings

Of course, the above "IE Option Method" is completed in IE6. If you use IE5, in the "Internet Options" dialog box, set the "Security" tab, which is different in IE4. In the following "attribute setting method", the folder for storing cookies is set to "read-only", so that the website cannot write Cookie information to it. This method applies to various versions of IE.

1. Start Windows Resource Manager ".

2. Find the folder to save the Cookie. The folder for storing cookies varies depending on the version of Windows. For example, in Windows XP, the folder is the "C: Cookies and Settings username Cookies" folder; in Windows 98, it is the "C: WindowsCookies" folder.

3. Right-click the folder and then click "properties" to open the folder Properties dialog box. Select the "read-only" check box and specify the file in this folder as the read-only property, read-only means that the file cannot be changed or accidentally deleted.

3. Set the Registry

The Property setting method also has a defect, that is, the website can still read the existing cookies on the computer. Some special cookies do not exist in the form of text files, but are saved in the memory. This type of Cookie is usually generated by the system automatically in the memory when a user accesses some special websites. Once a visitor leaves the website, the Cookie is automatically deleted from the memory. The above two methods are powerless to these cookies, and the "Registry method" can make up for these shortcomings.

1. Click the Start Menu, click Run, type regedit in the open box, and click OK to open the registry editor window.

2. Expand the "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionInternet SettingsCacheSpecial PathsCookies" branch, right-click "Cookies", and click the "delete" command in the shortcut menu. When the system prompts to confirm deletion, click "yes;

3. close the registry editor window to take effect.

To prevent websites from storing Cookie files in users' computers, in addition to setting them manually, install software to protect users' Cookie files. This type of software is relatively large, and users can download it from various software download sites. For example, security guard 360 has powerful functions. It not only allows Cookies stored in computers to hide, but also clears junk information stored in the hard disk cache when users browse webpages.

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