User Guide

Privacy Features
32 Internet Guard Dog
Responding to a Cookie Blocker alert message
If during the Interview, you set Internet Guard Dog to prompt you for action
then it will display the Cookie Blocker alert message the first time a site tries
to set a cookie.
You can respond to the alert message in the following ways:
Each time you visit a site that appears in either the Allowed or Rejected list,
InternetGuardDogaddsthenumberofcookiesacceptedorrejectedtothelist.
You can see the totals for a Web site in the Browser Buddy.
If you change your mind about a site, you can remove it from the Allowed or
Rejected list in the Cookie Blocker settings. The next time that you visit that
site it will be as if you are visiting it for the first time. If you want to remove
cookies for a site from which you’ve previously accepted cookies, run a
Security Check and remove t he cookies for that site.
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TIP: You can run Security Check so that it only looks for cookies.Onthe
Internet Guard D og Home screen: cl ick the Options menu; select
CheckUp Settings; then clear all options except Cookie Check. Afteryou
are finishedwiththe CheckUp,don’t forgetto change backyoursettings.
Table 4-1.
If you choose Internet Guard Dog
Accept always Accepts the cookie and adds the site to the
Allowedlist. The next time you go to thatsite,all
cookies from that site are allowed automatically.
Never accept Rejects the cookie and adds the site to the
Rejectedlist.The next time you go to that site, all
cookies from that site are refused
automatically.(In some cases, t he cookie may be
writtento your local hard disk, but your privacy
isprotectedbecause thecookieis never sentback
to the requesting page.)