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Offline weazel

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« on: November 22, 2002, 02:56:42 PM »
WTF is up with these cookies?

If I choose to block them w/o disconnecting from the net I get a BSOD and have to restart my PC.
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Offline StSanta

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« Reply #1 on: November 22, 2002, 03:01:51 PM »
Looks like a standard cookie used for saving persistent data so they know who you are.

Could be wrong though - is that all there is to it?

Err the doman and site stuff looks weird. Sort of like in C++ when you have a char* and forget to set  the stop character '\0'. Might be what's causing the crashes.
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Offline weazel

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« Reply #2 on: November 22, 2002, 03:55:56 PM »
Yeah, it's only the cookies with the weird domain/site characters that cause a BSOD.
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Offline Curval

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« Reply #3 on: November 22, 2002, 04:09:34 PM »
EVERYONE:

C is for cookie...thats good enough for me
C is for cookie...thats good enough for me
C is for cookie...thats good enough for me
OH cookie cookie cookie starts with C
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Offline Saintaw

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« Reply #4 on: November 22, 2002, 05:35:12 PM »
My bet is that these are Chinese characters badly encoded. Gotta pick yer porn on the good sides weazel :D

PS: a cookie is just stored info on a txt file,it can't hurt you, nor can it "launch" anything on your system without your consent. (as far as I know)
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Offline weazel

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« Reply #5 on: November 22, 2002, 05:55:46 PM »
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Originally posted by Saintaw
My bet is that these are Chinese characters badly encoded. Gotta pick yer porn on the good sides weazel :D

PS: a cookie is just stored info on a txt file,it can't hurt you, nor can it "launch" anything on your system without your consent. (as far as I know)


Came from a link off this UBB.

I don't eat cookies,  I view it as an invasion of privacy.
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Offline JB73

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« Reply #6 on: November 22, 2002, 06:43:34 PM »
with IE 6+ there is a button that you can delete cookies easier than manually going to the "temp" folder......

i allow all cookies then delete them after every session....

oh well my 2¢
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Offline weazel

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« Reply #7 on: November 22, 2002, 07:08:07 PM »
You just *think* your deleting cookies/temp files when you use the IE control panel, the only way to remove them is by booting into DOS mode and deleting the dat files.

MS sucks for air.

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with IE 6+ there is a button that you can delete cookies easier than manually going to the "temp" folder......

i allow all cookies then delete them after every session....

oh well my 2¢
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Offline JB73

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Re: No.....
« Reply #8 on: November 22, 2002, 07:12:20 PM »
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You just *think* your deleting cookies/temp files when you use the IE control panel, the only way to remove them is by booting into DOS mode and deleting the dat files.

MS sucks for air.
well i have gone into "temp" in dos prompt and no files there after ..... even chked hidden flies.

+ there is no REAL  DOS in winXP or 2000 ..... all you have to do is goto the folder and look for any files
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Offline weazel

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They are there.
« Reply #9 on: November 22, 2002, 07:41:57 PM »
MS started hiding them/preventing deletion of them beginning with Win Me.

You are being tracked every minute your online.
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Offline JB73

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« Reply #10 on: November 22, 2002, 08:14:06 PM »
weasle ............ im MCSE certified (almost.. 1 test away) how about you???

i know all about temp files and cookies so SU if you arent positive about what ur saying
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Offline weazel

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Never wasted the money for MCSE certs
« Reply #11 on: November 22, 2002, 08:27:24 PM »
But I build, repair, and troubleshoot PCs for a living.  

I know a lot of things that you aren't going to learn until you do the same.

Maybe you should "shut up" until you get your cherry popped in the real world?

Let me ask you a simple question to *test* the quality of your MS education:

At what size does the IE dat file become a potential problem?

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weasle ............ im MCSE certified (almost.. 1 test away) how about you???

i know all about temp files and cookies so SU if you arent positive about what ur saying
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Offline easymo

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« Reply #12 on: November 22, 2002, 10:27:56 PM »
Be careful.  Cookies give you cancer.
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Offline BlckMgk

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« Reply #13 on: November 22, 2002, 11:32:55 PM »
I Have no clue Weazle But I just wanted to take a stab at your question about the IE dat file, is it 8 megs?

Since JB didn't respond and I'm wondering :p

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Offline weazel

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« Reply #14 on: November 23, 2002, 12:16:04 AM »
Anything over 512 kb causes your browser and OS to measurably slow down and also has been shown to increase the incidence of fatal exceptions/BSOD.

You can clear the dat file by changing the location temporary internet files are stored, after the forced reboot Windoze will rebuild the dat file in the new location.

The original file size is only 34 bytes.

The reason why JB isn't having any luck finding it is he's looking in the wrong location, with WIN9X it's in C:\Windows\Temporary Internet Files or under DOS C:\Windows\Tempor~1.

2000, and XP are in the \Users\My Documents tree IIRC, I avoid both of these OS like the plague as they are too full of MS bloatware/spyware.
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