Firefox - Attack of the Cookies !

September 5, 2006 in Browsers, Firefox, General, IE, Internet Explorer, Spybot-S&D, anti-spyware, cookies, malware, spyware

I’m paranoid. When it comes to malware & spyware. So much paranoid that I run anti-spyware every 2nd day, irrespective of whether new updates are available or not.
Cookies on Firefox
Today was one of those 2nd days and the results that I saw, gave me quiet a shock !! Tracking Cookies on Firefox !! First I thought that the sky had fallen on me and my first thought was that there is some BIG problem in FireFox 2 Beta 2 [F2B2] since that’s what I’m still using on my office desktop.

After taking few deep breaths & splashing some water on my face [wake-up call], I realised that these were just cookies and irrespective of what browser I’m using, these problems are going to come [so much for FireFox being a safe browser]. Frankly I was used of seeing all these problems when I used IE6 extensively.

So maybe my browsing habits are wrong, but then I don’t visit any porn or any other dicey site for that matter. So is it that the biggest problem is not inside the computer but outside? Time for some serious thinking regarding browsing habits [oh! I can already feel pain in my knees].

Oh! and just for the record, I use Spybot - S&D, one of the best anti-spyware I had came across.

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2 Replies

  1. marcoos

    September 7, 2006 at 4:27 AM

    You can block cookies in Firefox. You can also block cookies from some sites and not from the others or even be asked about each cookie (very annoying, though).

    So, I don’t think that “so much for FireFox being a safe browser” is justified here…

  2. Neeraj

    September 7, 2006 at 11:57 AM

    or even be asked about each cookie (very annoying, though)

    That is exactly my point Marcoos. Though undoubtedly FF is way ahead of IE as far as spam-protection is concerned. But I cannot block cookies since most of the sites requires them [even wordpress requires cookies to be enabled].

    Maybe I was wrong in saying “so much for Firefox being a safe browser” in general, but then cookies are really the pain-in-the-a$$, atleast for me.

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