How to disable the Cookie Function

How to disable the Cookie Function
Cookies are actually small data packets that contain information about your surfing habits and facilitate future operations. However, they will be known to websites that know cookies on the Internet. For this reason, we still need to learn to disable cookies to ensure the security of the Internet.

With the popularization of network security knowledge, more and more users know that the Cookie function may cause privacy leaks. Cookies are actually small data packets containing information about your surfing habits on the Internet, it is convenient for you to operate in the future, but you will be informed of the Cookie site on the Internet later. For this reason, we still need to learn to disable cookies to ensure the security of the Internet. The following describes three methods for disabling cookies. You can use them as needed.

I. IE Option Method

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". At this time, the system blocks the cookies of all websites and the Website Cannot read the existing cookies on the computer;

4. Click OK.

Ii. Attribute setting method

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;

4. Click OK.

Iii. 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 prevent websites from storing Cookie files in your computer, in addition to setting them manually, install software to protect your Cookie files. There are many such software. You can download them from various software download sites. For example, Complete Cleanup Software Trail is a Software dedicated to clearing various cookies. It has powerful functions and not only keeps the Cookie hidden in the computer, you can also clear junk information stored in the hard disk cache when browsing the Web page.

The preceding three methods are used to disable the Cookie function: IE Option Method and attribute setting method registry method. I hope this will be helpful for your learning.