How do I disable a cookie thats been placed in my computer by a website?

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[Coroner]

C'mon computer whizzes I know you know!!!

[ClintonBeGone]

Coroner, cookies are GOOD!

[PeteFromMontana]

My sister got bit by a cookie once....


Sorry, lost my mind for a second

[lainde]

Boy I've learned a lot! BTTT!

[miele man]

I went to "Cookie Central". Didn't see how it would be of much help. I did see this article though, e.g.,

Record the Lens That Records You
"Ronald Deibert, a University of
Toronto associate professor of political
science, wants people to grab their
cameras and hit the shopping malls
Dec. 24 and participate in World
Sousveillance Day. Surveillance means
"to view from above." Sousveillance
means "to view from below."

On the day before Christmas, at noon,
local time, all over the world, Deibert
wants citizens to "shoot back" at
surveillance cameras -- not with guns,
but with cameras of their own.
Participants are to head out, in
disguise, to their favorite malls and
public spaces, and photograph all the
security cameras they find..." [wired]

This does not seem to be a prudent thing to do given the heightened state of alert for terrorism in malls. I'm sure the local mall security types as well as the local gendarmes
would be thrilled to hear this lame explanation. Surely.

[PAR35]

Microsoft will put multiple copies of the cookie in several different folders.

[July 4th]

The technique I've used has always been enough to clear an offending cookie from being active. Perhaps a copy is stored elsewhere but not directly referenced by the browser.

[Lancey Howard]

Look for the word 'Tools' near the top of your screen. If you see it, click on it and you will see several options drop down. Click on 'Internet Options'. On the next gray panel that shows up, click on 'Delete Cookies'. This should delete all your cookies.

[MJY1288]

LOL,

[longtermmemmory]

bump for later

[MississippiMan]

Google for a free program called AD-AWARE. It combs your machine and gets rid of intrusive spyware-type cookies without deleting good cookies like the one that allows you the convenience of automatically logging in here on FR.

MM

[tubebender]

I'm using IE on a Mac osx and I have set "ask for each site" and I decline 99% but yet when I check there are a couple of hundred cookies shown. What's going on...am I getting these on sites like yahoo finance and others that are enabled...

[Palladin]

Before you delete all your cookies, make sure you have hard copies of all your favorite sites where you log in with a name and password...like here on FR. Otherwise, you won't log in automatically, and you'll have to remember your password, and if you forget it, it's a big hassle to find it out by email. You'll end up registering all over again, and everyone will think you're a newbie.

[RLK]

You can go into your cookies file with a word processor operating in ascii. The problem is, you need to be able to identify the cookie before erasing it and repositioning the file. I still use DOS Norton Commander for working with files.

[martin_fierro]

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