PC protection

[Mark 5]

More advice on number 5. please
Last night I spent half an hour deleting cookies on a site that gave a recipe for green tomato chutney , and hadn't got even 1/8th of then way down the page ruler showing how many to go .

You have highlighted the point I was making.

It should be an easy task and on some sites it is but on so-so many the task is made deliberately onerous.

I have found, " reject all " doesn't reject all, permanently checked/on selections -- hides a whole lot of cookies/spam.

Some sites I have found reverse selection buttons or colours.

"Save and Exit " for that visit maybe, revisit the site, back to square one.

" Customise " as I suspect you have found opens up a whole world of disabling/turning off, worse still, miss one selection and sites assume, regardless of your efforts, you are giving permission to enable all, you don't actually mean your selections.

Nope!, if sites wants to get its spam and cookies on you PC they will find a way.

Clearing you browser/cache on a regular basis does help but it's an unwinnable battle/onslaught

" Reject all " should mean just that but it doesn't.

 

[roofman]

I have zero common sense on the sites I visit, what do I need to use

your socks or a towel

 

[Kayos]

Thanks, I have taken note.

Apologies I was (half) joking

I do have a laptop for when I need to be in the bowels of the internet, no personal info or login details, shared sign ons etc

I suspect if I connected to a corporate network a swat team would come crashing through the glass

 

[Mark 5]

Apologies I was (half) joking

I do have a laptop for when I need to be in the bowels of the internet, no personal info or login details, shared sign ons etc

I suspect if I connected to a corporate network a swat team would come crashing through the glass

No need.

I don't always look at names or I might miss the humour, not the first time.

If I can answer or reply I will.

BIB reminds me of a story many years ago, details are flakey.

A senior manager of a company brought his 9 year old son with him, son brought along a USB drive given him by his mate that had a downloaded copy of a game to watch, coz that was ok, his friend, what could go wrong.

I can't remember a swat team being involved but apparently a very unhappy office and IT department had something to say.

 

[Ali]

4) Don't open spam Email, just delete it.

Fixed that, makes life much easier.

 

[Robotstar5]

Fixed that, makes life much easier.

One guy I worked with never opened any company emails, he usually had 2000+ unopened in the inbox, his answer was "if it's important they will either phone or come and see me"