Three ways to disable cookies (Protect your privacy)

The role of cookies many people know that--cookie keep the records of the pages we have visited, if the ulterior motives of the people to see this information, they reached the purpose of spying on the information, now a few attacks against cookies, These black hands download cookies on the local computer (computer) by downloading the Web database, including our browsing information, the background information of our servers (server network resources), our admin account and even our bank password, and so on.





also has some use of social engineering techniques to steal, for example, by spying on your cookies to steal your QQ number and so on, so although you can get back through the appeal, but it is inevitable that your QQ friends have been deleted, as well as our game account and password, this is a lot of people are very concerned about, Cookies on the record of such landing information, if we allow this black hand to misbehave, who knows what will happen in the future, although the network of things are virtual, but looking at their hard-earned equipment to run into the pockets of others, what do you intend to do?





many people in order to "safe", they insist on using the computer (computer) in time to clean IE cache files, delete cookies work. Have to admire the perseverance of doing so every day, but there is a fact is undeniable-it is too troublesome to do so every day. So how simple and effective to prevent people from using cookies to spy on us?




This can be achieved by
directly to cookies.





cookies are actually small packets of bread that contain information about your surfing habits and can be handy for later operations, but then you know about cookies on the Internet. Because of this, we still need to learn to disable cookies to ensure the security of the Internet. Here are three ways to disable cookies, and you can choose to use them as needed.





One, 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 up to a higher level of privacy. If you move to the top is to select "Block All Cookies," the system will block all cookies on the Web site, and the site can not read the computer (computer) existing cookies;





4, click "OK" button.





Two, attribute set method





of course, the above "ie option method" author is IE6 in the operation is completed, if you are using IE5, then in the Internet Options dialog box on the Security tab to set, in IE4 and different. The following property settings method sets the folder where the cookie is saved to the read-only property so that the Web site cannot write cookie information to it. This method is applicable to various versions of IE.





1, start Windows Explorer;





2, locate the folder where the cookie is saved. Unlike the version of Windows, folders that save cookies differ. For example, in Windows XP, this folder is the "C:documents and Settings User name cookies" folder; In Windows 98, the "C:windowscookies" folder;





3, right-click the folder, click Properties, open the Folder Properties dialog box, select the Read Only check box, specify that the files in this folder are read-only, and read-only means that the files cannot be changed or accidentally deleted;





4, click "OK" button.





Three, the registration form method





"Property setup" actually has a flaw, that is, the Web site can still read the computer (computer) existing cookies. And there are some special cookies that are not in the form of text files but are stored in memory. Such cookies are usually generated by the system automatically in memory when a user accesses certain special sites, and the cookie is automatically removed from memory once the visitor leaves the site. These two laws do nothing for these cookies, and the "Registry law" can compensate for these deficiencies.





1, click the Start menu, click Run, and then in the Open box, type regedit, click OK, and open the Registry Editor window;





2, expand the "Hkey_local_machinesoftwaremicrosoftwindowscurrentversioninternet settingscachespecialpathscookies" branch in turn , right-click Cookies, click Delete on the shortcut menu, and when prompted to confirm the deletion, click Yes.





3, close the Registry Editor window.





in order to prevent some websites from putting cookies on your computer, there is an easy way to install software to protect your cookie files, in addition to manually setting them as described above. This kind of software is more, you can go to each big software download site to download. Complete Cleanup Software Trail, for example, is a software designed to clean up cookies, and is powerful enough not only to hide cookies stored in computers (computers), but also to store them on a hard disk when browsing the web ( One of the hard drive HDD storage media) The garbage message in the cache is cleared.