Precautions Against Spam When Doing PTCs
By drknlvly6781
@drknlvly6781 (6246)
United States
April 9, 2008 12:48pm CST
This discussion stems from a discovery I made in Firefox that has cut down on my spam e-mails. If you are interested in finding what that discovery was, or would like the steps, go here:
http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1468453.aspx
I just started joining PTCs because of a new site. (That's for a following discussion) Anyways, after finding out what I did about unsuscribing to offers, and making it so I am asked about every cookie that wants to download to my computer, I have found that PTCs have a heavy load of cookies too. After surfing them for a while, before I changed the settings, my computer would always start to act funny, and slow down on me.
Since I have turned this feature on, this no longer happens to me. I am asked about every cookie that is loaded, and I only allow access to the necessary ones. If I click on an ad that I know I don't want any information about, I make sure I deny access to all cookies from that site. And I only allow cookies to other PTC sites when I am logging into them after signing up.
This should be a great tip to share, tell me if it works
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3 responses
@emeraldisle (13138)
• United States
10 Apr 08
I'm going to check into that. I also use Ccleaner to help get rid of cookies and my history. It allows me to get rid of all the ones I don't want while keeping the ones I do. I run it at least once a day if not more often because it also cleans out other areas for me as well. I discovered when I started doing GPT sites which recommend you get rid of your cookies between offers. I found out that just using the delete cookies under Internet tools didn't get rid of them all. When I first started ccleaner I looked at the cookies it found on my drive, it included ones to sites I hadn't been to in over a year. That surprised me. I've noticed a big difference in how my computer runs now.
@drknlvly6781 (6246)
• United States
10 Apr 08
You should slide me the download to that ccleaner. I would love to know what is still on this dinosaur lol.
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@emeraldisle (13138)
• United States
10 Apr 08
Here you go: http://www.ccleaner.com/ It's a free program. I hope it helps your computer.
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@drknlvly6781 (6246)
• United States
10 Apr 08
I used it shortly after I got the link from you last night. It removed 656mb of cookies from my computer!!! You are right, and this works way better than the HiJack this that I was using. Not only will I continue using this, but I'm getting rid of the old one!!!
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@augustine87 (173)
• Philippines
13 Apr 08
I did not enable that feature but I clear my private data: history, cache, cookies everytime I exit firefox. And once a week, I delete all temporary internet files. Do you think that's all right?
@drknlvly6781 (6246)
• United States
13 Apr 08
As far as keeping your computer running smoothly that's fine. But setting this feature is more like preventative medicine. While those other cookies are on your computer, until you delete them, they are getting your information and sending it back to the spammers, causing you to get many unwanted e-mails. With this feature installed, you get to screen each and every cookie, and only add the ones that are necessary. This will keep your e-mail a little more safe.
