Alot of the cookies that MSNBC and CNN set aren't their cookies, but third party advertisers, you can block all third party cookies using IE 6.

They can't get your email address with cookies, you have to type your email in a form on their site in order for them to get your email address.

You probably Got Choclate, Vanilla, Orange, Commie, Socialist, lefty, Luney, World, Pro-Arab and Anti-Isreal cookies from CNN,

I have IE6 configured to prompt me each time a cookie is attempted. They can be useful, sometimes. What is interesting is how many cookie attempts I see when loading an FR thread with graphics.

I'm not a computer-whiz, but you might try downloading Zone Alarm.
It's free and from what I understand it keeps other computers from "knowing you're there".
Perhaps some "more knowledgeble" freeper can give you more accurate details about it.

They can't get your email address with cookies, you have to type your email in a form on their site in order for them to get your email address.

Au contraire.

Some weeks back, I went looking for a used car for my daughter. I visited many sites -- dealers, Kelly Blue Book, etc. I never gave even one of them my email address. I never gave them any information. I simply looked at the sites.

The next thing I knew, I was getting email ads for car loans and the like. It could not have been a coincidence.

"You probably Got Choclate, Vanilla, Orange, Commie, Socialist, lefty, Luney, World, Pro-Arab and Anti-Isreal cookies from CNN"

BRWAAAHAAAHAAA

I'm not a computer-whiz, but you might try downloading Zone Alarm.

Got that. I also use Cookie Washer.

I was just screwing around.

Why log on to CNN in the first place? Haven't you gotten the memo?

You forgot "Al-Qaeda's Ahoy" Cookies

Giggle.

P.S. I'm messing around with Photopoint now. One of these days, I'll be able to post private pictures.

Now you see it, now you don't...
Any idea what happened?

a password request is popping up instead of a pic, you might want the sidebar moderator to remove your post :-)

bump for later reading

Why did I get a pop up box asking for name and password when I clicked on this thread? Did this happen to anyone else?

The next thing I knew, I was getting email ads for car loans

Older revs of Netscape Communicator will cough up your email address if you use Communicator's email client and it has your address in it. That's not cookies, though, it's just a relic of a more benign, naive era on the Internet.

I don't know this for a fact, but I suspect that ad-serving outfits like DoubleClick are contantly buying lists of email addresses and trying to match them up with people who have DoubleClick cookies on their machines. That way they can watch where you go and sell your email address just the way it appeared to you.

Could you please tell me if IE6 is compatible with Windows 98, Second Edition. I am using IE 5.5 and having trouble with "Fatal Errors"

Why did I get a pop up box asking for name and password when I clicked on this thread?

Because that porn site in the other window, the one you gave up on, finally loaded.

Cookie Pal from kookaburra software works well also, 30 day free trial.