Cookies

[dot.hawkes]

Cookies keep being listed on the avg scan, they are the same ones every day, but on the list they have my name and an email address, lik:
Dororhy_Hawkes@adviva.[txt]2

this is not an email address i have registered, what are these coolies doing and why am i always being thrown off ab with a blue warning screen?????????

[ChuckFickens]

Probably cookies you get from sites you goto everyday and login to (this one maybe, did you register your full name in your profile?) and the email address is more than likely not a real address but just a fake one to recognise you by.

They are only cookies.. at the worst a minor privacy issue, not generally something to get too worried about.

As for the blue screen, thats might be more serious.... is it a full blue screen with white writing and then you have to reset the computer?

if it is then next time make a note of the text and post back with it (only the first part... the rest probably won't be useful)

[dot.hawkes]

it flashes on suddenlt, not time to read anything but the whole screen is dark blue with a full page of writing, really so fast that no wasy could i read it, it just rboots the laptop and then an report box for microsoft comes up to send the report in, but never get a reply, except it does go to a page that says it was caused by one of several things, which is obvious anyway

cheers chuck

[jno]

I always delete cookes at the end of a session - reflex privacy measure - very easy on Firefox, just go to Tools - Clear Private Data.

[Ethel]

Firefox - tools - options - privacy

Tick 'always clear private data when closing Firefox' and it does it automatically.

What firewall do you use, dot?