User Guide

User’s Guide 33
Privacy Features
Why should I change my Cookie Blocker settings?
If you want a good level of privacy protection without having to see any
CookieBlockeralertmessages,use therecommendedsetti ngs—always accept
cookies from sites that you visit directly and decide on a case-by-case basis
whether to accept cookies coming from sites that you haven’t visited directly.
You may also change your settings under specific circumstances (see Table
5-2).
What Identity Protector does
Itis easyto forgetthat whenyou send informationoverthe Internet,itdoesn’t
go directly from your computer to the computer that is storing the Web page
information. Instead, the information can pass through many computers
before it reaches its final destination.
Identity Protector can keep your software from sending any personal
information over the Internetto an unsecure site.A lthough you don’t have to
worry abouta sitewhenitusinga secureconnection, there arema nyWebsites
that use a secure connection only when dealing with credit card transactions.
(For more information, see “Privacy on the Web” on page 58.)
Table 4-2.
If you Use this option
Want the least number of
cookies set and highest
assurance of privacy.
Reject for both Direct S ites a nd Indirect Sites.
If a site requires you to accept a cookie, you can
change this setting temporarily to Prompt.
Always want to know when
cookies are sent.
Prompt for both Direct Sites and Indirect Sites.
Be prepared to respond to a large number of
alert messages.
After you respond to the Cookie Blocker alert
message, you won’t see additional alert
messages for that site.
Arenot concernedat allabout
cookies.
Either turn off Cookie Blocker or change the
Indirect Sites setting to Accept.
You should choose the second method if you
want to keep a total of the cookies added to
your PC, which you can view in the Browser
Buddy.