Newbie ! Cookies and unwanted messages

From: Fat Richard (richard_howe_uk_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/25/04


Date: 25 Oct 2004 10:56:56 -0700

We have recently obtained a decent PC and are amazed at the
differences since we had a steam age PC.
We have overcome the Tiny deoptimising modem problem but have a few
and some advice would be good.
Tiny have disabled the standard Windows browser, how do I get it back
?
I am having amazing problems with cookie control. I am using AOL but
want to use Yahoo email and Google groups which seem to differ with
AOLs settings, easy solution ???

As soon as we turned on we have been getting messages via messenger,
various ones, mostly bogus looking software updates and spam. Having
never suffered this in the past what should we do. Are there some easy
security settings that we can deal with. We feel the urge to delete
messenger but dont want to ! Would getting rid of AOL messenger or
worse Windows messenger remove drivers etc useful to other programmes
??? All help gratefully recieved.

Fat Richard



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