Re: Bloody "cookies" and yahoo
From: Tom Randy (Sorry_at_spamsucks.net)
Date: 10/26/04
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Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 08:54:13 GMT
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 00:05:34 -0400, Rich wrote:
> I was on one of the yahoo astro groups and the stupid thing
> kept prompting me to take a cookie (4 different ones each
> time I accessed a post!). So finally, I relented, let it give me
> one, then another one. Within 10 minutes this SPAM astro
> stuff showed up on my screen.
>
> http://skyinsight.net/indexstd.html
>
> Well, moderator of that site, I will NEVER visit it now.
>
> IMO, a site should issue one cookie, if needed, for itself only.
> Instead, they hide the true origin and turn your browser into
> a free for all. The next step is browser highjacking which has
> happened to me twice already.
Dump IE and use Firefox or Mozilla. Bam, problem solved. Use IE only if
you HAVE to.
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