| ShadyOne | 04-12-2011 11:06 AM |
Multiple Hard Drive Partitions vs User Accounts
We get questions everyday on the forum about user accounts, cookies, flash files etc etc and many members follow rituals like this: Quote:
cookies - use CCleaner or similar to delete cookies BEFORE and AFTER visits to ebay AND other sites that track - THERE ARE MANY - and many of them have agreements with ebay to exchange information ( Amazon, YAHOO, Google, most commercial portals) For example, "doubleclick.com" is a NOTORIOUS hunter of user info and they specialize in tracking users accross sites, and selling this information to third parties.
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Flash Objects.
You can use short registry scripts available on the web to disable/enable flash
on the fly. OR - keep Flash off your conmputer altogether. Caution::: with Firefox, I notice I have Flash installed ( embedded in the browser) without ever explicitly installing it myself.
Flash installs EXECUTABLE code on your machine, which can see everything - all hardware and all their serial numbers,
ANY executable code installed on your conmputer has access to the hardware, to POSITIVELY identify you no matter what. A web site CAN NEVER see identifying features of your PC, BUT a website can querry Flash code to get that info, because Flash resides locally, and talks to web sites - it is made for that.
You do not lose much by excluding Flash. 95%+ of Flash content is advertising or annoying intro screens.
| A lot of people (me included) are using user accounts and are just fine but some people sometimes blame thier different user accounts for their most recent suspensions.
Well has anyone thought of just using a different partition for each account to be extra safe? :spy:
It wouldn't be as quick as swithing user :lol: but if it is safest method then why not! ;)
I have thought of a few possilbe problems with it but I will wait to see what everyone else thinks.
:peace: | 
