About every 3rd - 4th time I log on to the Knowbrainer Forum - I come on as a guest - and have to re-log in.  Then I lose all the "flags" and don't have any idea what I've read - and what I haven't read.

Does anyone else have this problem?  Why am I not staying logged in when I have checked the box "Keep me logged in."  This has been happening for about the past two months.

           Dana

Dana Joan - Vero Beach, FL  - 

Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical, Version 10.1; General Medical Large Vocabulary; Windows 7 Ultimate (on desktop); Windows XP Professional SR 3 (on laptop) and Sennheiser MD 431 II mic with the Andrea USB pod on both computers; LAPTOP: HP Compaq 8710p; Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7300 @ 2.00 GHz 2.00 GHz; 2.00 GB RAM; DESKTOP: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU @ 2.66 GHz 2.67 GHz; 2.00 GB RAM.

Dana,

Maybe it's your deodorant?

MDH

Happy New Year everyone!

MDH, how come you know about Dana's deodorant?

Dana, maybe it's because of your browser settings to delete cookies and stuff at the end of the program? I mean, short of your deodorant.

Rüdiger

Well, it's past the point where we can make any changes in the code, but we can still make changes to the Easter Egg!

You are right (not the deoderant!!).  I run Ccleaner weekly - and the cookies that I have asked not to be removed are always removed whenever a new version installs, which is frequently.  That's one bad thing about Ccleaner - it doesn't seem to save the cookies list of those you don't want deleted!  AND - I keep forgetting this!!

Thanks, guys - hope I remember this for next time!

                   Dana

Dana Joan - Vero Beach, FL  - 

Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical, Version 10.1; General Medical Large Vocabulary; Windows 7 Ultimate (on desktop); Windows XP Professional SR 3 (on laptop) and Sennheiser MD 431 II mic with the Andrea USB pod on both computers; LAPTOP: HP Compaq 8710p; Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7300 @ 2.00 GHz 2.00 GHz; 2.00 GB RAM; DESKTOP: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU @ 2.66 GHz 2.67 GHz; 2.00 GB RAM.

Dana,

Cookies can be a pain in the butt when you get some that you don't really want or that cause you headaches.  However, I never delete cookies unless I know exactly which ones I want to delete and I do that on an individual basis without using silly cleaners precisely because of the problem that you note.

On the other hand, maintaining your logins and other information that may be critical to the functioning of specific webpages (i.e., your name etc. when filling out forms) are useful and often necessary.  Still, cookies do contain a lot of personal information relative to your visiting specific websites or even websites in general under some conditions.  This is what I mean by being a pain in the butt.  Fortunately, none of that information on my systems ever gets out through my firewall.  None of my personal information is ever kept in terms of cookies.  I use RoboForm for all of my specific URL accesses that require names addresses and passwords etc.  Since this is all encrypted and password-protected, it only comes from within my RoboForm data, it never gets transmitted in such a way that anyone can access it.  That being said, I shouldn't say never because there are hackers out there that are good enough to get it if they want it bad enough.  Nevertheless, I've made it is hard for them as possible.  I will applaud any of them if they can get past my firewall without my being notified that someone is trying.  My firewall blocks it anyway after which I tell the firewall to treat them as an intruder, which permanently blocks anything coming back in from any of those IP addresses.  Viruses are all handled by a security program that places any suspected code in a sandbox where it can do no damage and allows it to execute to assess the behavior.  If the behavior mimics a virus or Trojan or Malware, it stops there and never gets access to my system.  I use a specially designed heuristic algorithm in a sandbox environment.  I originally got this from my work with security protocols with Finjan, from whom I learned a great deal about how to protect yourself.

Long discourse to simply say that cookies are important in some cases and you do have to be careful which cookies you delete in which you keep.

Chuck Runquist
Technical Project Manager
VoiceTeach LLC

I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but, I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.