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User’s Guide

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If you want a good level of privacy protection without having to see any 
Cookie Blocker alert messages, use the recommended settings—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 want to change your settings under the following circumstances:

It is easy to forget that when you send information over the Internet, it doesn’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 that you specify out over the Internet to an unsecure site. 
Although you don’t have to worry about a site when it using a secure 
connection, there are many Web sites that use a secure connection only when 
dealing with credit card transactions. (For more information, see “Privacy on 
the Web” on page 62.)

Want the least number of 
cookies set and highest 
assurance of privacy.

Reject for both Direct Sites and 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. 

Are not concerned at all about 
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 Browser 
Buddy.