"Acrosticus" wrote in message
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Yeah, but TV adverts don't place "data miners" or "keystroke
trackers"on your
system like some of these cookies and pop-ups do. Like the one that
stuck one
on mine, grabbed my passwords and used one of my addresses to send
out 700
e-mails one night when I wasn't even on line! In fact, I was in bed!

Use a decent firewall such as Zone Alarm... This will block pop-ups
and will manage/prevent cookies as well as preventing anything being
written onto your computer. Since installing ZA, I've been amazed how
many attempts are made to access my computer - currently shows 58848
attempts blocked over the last 12 weeks!