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FINAL ANSWER - Is changing my IP and cookie enough?
 

I have read vigorously through the forums, and I do have the stealth book. The books mentions IP changing and cookies, however in the forums there is more paranoia with respect to flash objects and more sophisticated tracking methods.


My question, besides the other obvious details (name, address, e-mail, paypal) is changing my IP address, in combination with firefox clear personal data and cccleaner enough? I see modee also suggested the Objection firefox tool which i did as well.

The reason I ask is because, before when I changed my IP and deleted cookies, my bank would not recognize the name but allow me to enter it and the password. When I ran CCcleaner it not only did not recognize my name but also asked me an additional question. I am sure ebay is as sophisticated as the bank if not more so.

I also noticed that eBay required me to phone verify before re listing an item, only after I ran ccleaner and not before when I was using IP change and Firefox clear cookies. What is the latest on this detection method?

Should I change my computer login ID, has that been compromised? Now if I changed my IP address, and cleared my firefox cookies but I did not clear my flash cookies would that be linked?

Are you saying you're using the same computer and never cleared your flash objects without setting up another user account on your PC?

Yes you would be linked if that's true.

Here's the link to clear your flash objects...(its that simple )

Adobe - Flash Player : Settings Manager - Website Storage Settings panel

^^^^^^^ do that

I clicked on a link and it showed me a menu, how do i select the appropiate options.

Also i was linked before to the prior account and provided some information then they reinstated it. Will this cause them to link me again and should I expect to receive an E-mail today? ( I logged into a previous paypal account but I do not believe I logged into the ebay account) However I did find a unusual ebay cookie on my computer when I logged out of my old ebay account.

you click on delete websites

it may also speed up you computer to get all that junk off of it, i have a lot of wesbites on mine when i removed the flash cokines from that link above ^^^

flash settings - done

By the way if it was linked, would I get an E-mail immediately or would it be some time?

it will be some time, sometime you get it within an hour, from my experence, if i create and ebay account and miss a step, i am gone within a hour

I last logged into that old paypal account about 12 hours ago,



by the way nice avatar

thats me on halloween, lol

Looks more like a certain user who posts in the Everything Else forum.:eek:

Assuming I did make a mistake and 1 week passes without a trust and safety E-mail is that long enough?

I guess it could come at any time. Just dont do anything to alert them to your account i guess. But i dont really know much, all new like you.

The 2 most important basic thing are to change your IP and clear all cookies. Just use CCleaner every time you log out.