Cookies

[Lee DeRaud]

(This probably belongs in the 'off-topic' forum, but (1) I usually don't go there and (2) this forum is top-heavy with computer types.)

Seems like every couple of days I have to fix my Google settings (the 'open search results in new tab" is a particular culprit), and I've seen other (presumably) cookie-related things go walk-about randomly. It doesn't appear to correlate to reboots or restarts of IE.

Does anyone know offhand where the control to hardset cookie permanance is hiding in IE8 (or elsewhere)? The few solutions I've found online only seem to be valid for IE7 or earlier, as they refer to options that don't appear to exist anymore.

[Robert Walters]

Lee,

May I suggest you try/use FireFox instead?
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/

While all browsers have security risks, Firefox has less than IE most of the time and you can have both installed at the same time. I might have suggested Google chrome, but I feel it's "not ready for prime time" just yet.


Alternatively, see if this helps...
http://www.brighthub.com/computing/windows-platform/articles/67648.aspx

[Mike Null]

Lee

I think we should move this to the off topic forum but in the meantime have you looked at the tools> "internet options" tab>privacy.

I don't know whether changing that cookie setting would help or hurt. Are you up to date with all the MS patches?

[Lee DeRaud]

...in the meantime have you looked at the tools> "internet options" tab>privacy.

I don't know whether changing that cookie setting would help or hurt. Are you up to date with all the MS patches?Yes and yes.

Those settings seem to control which cookies are accepted...my problem seems to be more one of how long already-accepted cookies are kept. (IE7 apparently had some now-missing options on that tab.) The only thing I've found that applies to that is the one that makes all cookies "per-session", i.e. clears them all at shutdown, which I suppose makes sense on a public computer but is otherwise pointless.

[Scott Donley]

Lee, nice seeing your still kickin ! Could it be a third party security setting that is set to not keep cookies, an update maybe ? Good luck.

[Michael Hunter]

I use the free version of AVG virus protection. I've set it to check for "bad" cookies and it does seem to clear them all up.

[Lee DeRaud]

Lee, nice seeing your still kickin ! Could it be a third party security setting that is set to not keep cookies, an update maybe ? Good luck.I've been hiding over in the engraving forum mostly...they moved this thread here, which kind of outted me.

I'm using box-standard MS Security Essentials, which AFAIK doesn't diddle cookies unnecessarily. It's like some of them just sort of disappear after a week or so.