OT - Facebook Problem

On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 18:56:06 -0500, CatNipped wrote:
Well, yeah, I am insane, that's a given. But every time I went to google I
was submerged in pop-ups and after the first time it did that the viruses

Of course, I didn't mean it like it's a bad thing. :-)

I hardly ever think of viruses as I don't run microsoft software. Only microsoft
could make email dangerous; they've never understood 60's protected resource
technology and how to protect an operating system from its users.

Oh, I totally agree (and I didn't take offence, I *am* admittedly insane
;). I'm just too much of an old fogey, I guess, and don't have the energy
or desire to try to learn something new.

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"AZ Nomad" wrote in message
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On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 18:56:06 -0500, CatNipped
wrote:
Well, yeah, I am insane, that's a given. But every time I went to google
I
was submerged in pop-ups and after the first time it did that the viruses

Of course, I didn't mean it like it's a bad thing. :-)

I hardly ever think of viruses as I don't run microsoft software. Only
microsoft
could make email dangerous; they've never understood 60's protected
resource
technology and how to protect an operating system from its users.

CatNipped wrote:
I don't know if it's because Ben had to rebuild my computer and went from
IE7 to IE8, but since them all my "log in" pages keep logging me out like
every 5 minutes. I have to keep logging in and logging in and it's a PITA.
Has anyone else had this problem and solved it?

There's a check box on the the login page, keep me logged in.

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CatNipped wrote:
Oh, I totally agree (and I didn't take offence, I *am* admittedly insane
;). I'm just too much of an old fogey, I guess, and don't have the energy
or desire to try to learn something new.

BTW, just tried FB with IE9 and it works fine. :-)

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On Sat, 09 Oct 2010 15:46:00 +0100, Adrian wrote:
CatNipped wrote:
Oh, I totally agree (and I didn't take offence, I *am* admittedly insane
;). I'm just too much of an old fogey, I guess, and don't have the energy
or desire to try to learn something new.

BTW, just tried FB with IE9 and it works fine. :-)

From what I saw, there is a new 'security feature' that IE8 has where
the behavior is changed from prior behavior. It involves 'cookies' which
is how a website saves a little information on your own computer and is how
facebook remembers who you are when you reopen your browser so it knows that
you've already logged on. Remove the cookie, and facebook doesn't know who
you are. I think IE8 is automatically deleting them. I don't use IE so I
can't help much other than say that I think the problem is w/ cookies.

Cookies are a very mild security risk. It used to be possible for
website A to save a cookie, and then for website B request to read it.
That could be very very bad if website A had saved login information to
log into your bank account, and website B was malicious. In real life,
sites can't read other sites' cookies, and no site saves anything critical.
No bank website would save login information in a cookie, and no merchant
site would save anything like credit card information. They don't even
save that information on their own web servers -- it gets transfered *one way*
to their financial systems never to be copied back to a webserver which
might be hacked.

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Sherry wrote:

Then you're missing today's Google doodle, which is wonderful.

Off to look at it myself.

Back.

I knew it was going to be "Imagine"! I guess that's his best-known
song. It's a good song, but I'm royally sick of it after hearing it
all the time.

But it was a nice tribute. And wow - he would've been 70! Who could
ever have, ahem, imagined that?


As we are now talking about John Lennon, you all may or may not be
interested to know that when I found my half siblings via Genes Reunited in
2006 (same father, different mother) I discovered that they were related to
John Lennon. Their maternal grandmother and his were sisters and they knew
him well - in fact my half-sis Pauline said "I never liked him as a child,
he wouldn't let me play on his tricycle.."
They are all quite a bit older than I am, settled eventually in Liverpool,
and when I visited Liverpool last year I was driven around by half-bro
Dougie to see Penny Lane etc.
There's quite a Beatles tourist thing going in Liverpool, it's possible to
hire a taxi to go all round the places mentioned in their songs and to see
the houses they were brought up in. Liverpool is a massive place and the
tour takes hours and costs loads of money, but I got mine for free plus
inside information about John Lennon's early life and what he was like as a
person ;-)

Tweed

Dang! I'm sure it's just a setting I'm missing - that's why it keeps
logging me off. But I've set security *SO* low already it's not a good idea
to go any lower. I have "accept cookies" and "trusted sites set up, yet
every 3 or 4 minutes up pops the message telling me to log in. And it's not
just FB, it's my.yahoo.com and any other site that requires a password and
that should be able to "stay logged on".



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"Adrian" wrote in message
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CatNipped wrote:
Oh, I totally agree (and I didn't take offence, I *am* admittedly insane
;). I'm just too much of an old fogey, I guess, and don't have the
energy or desire to try to learn something new.

BTW, just tried FB with IE9 and it works fine. :-)

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Cats leave pawprints on your heart
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I've narrowed it down to Norton (I truly hate that software, but DH says
it's that or a corrupted computer). Even though I've changed the settings
to "ask" rather than "ignore", and set up "exclusions" in Norton, it keeps
going back to the default settings and removing all cookies! ARGH!

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"CatNipped" wrote in message
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Dang! I'm sure it's just a setting I'm missing - that's why it keeps
logging me off. But I've set security *SO* low already it's not a good
idea to go any lower. I have "accept cookies" and "trusted sites set up,
yet every 3 or 4 minutes up pops the message telling me to log in. And
it's not just FB, it's my.yahoo.com and any other site that requires a
password and that should be able to "stay logged on".



--
Hugs,

CatNipped
See all our masters at: http://www.PossiblePlaces.com/CatNipped

See the RPCA FAQ site, by Mark Edwards, at:
http://www.professional-geek.com/rpcablog/

"Adrian" wrote in message
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CatNipped wrote:
Oh, I totally agree (and I didn't take offence, I *am* admittedly insane
;). I'm just too much of an old fogey, I guess, and don't have the
energy or desire to try to learn something new.

BTW, just tried FB with IE9 and it works fine. :-)

--
Adrian (Owned by Bagheera & Shadow)
Cats leave pawprints on your heart
http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk

No, that doesn't work - it's Norton that's the problem, it keeps resetting
itself to default parameters which means we can't get it to stop deleting
*ALL* cookies every time it runs a scan.

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CatNipped
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"Adrian" wrote in message
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CatNipped wrote:
I don't know if it's because Ben had to rebuild my computer and went from
IE7 to IE8, but since them all my "log in" pages keep logging me out like
every 5 minutes. I have to keep logging in and logging in and it's a
PITA. Has anyone else had this problem and solved it?

There's a check box on the the login page, keep me logged in.

--
Adrian (Owned by Bagheera & Shadow)
Cats leave pawprints on your heart
http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk

"CatNipped" wrote in message
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No, that doesn't work - it's Norton that's the problem, it keeps resetting
itself to default parameters which means we can't get it to stop deleting
*ALL* cookies every time it runs a scan.


Get rid of Norton, it's so huge and slow and download yourself a free
antivirus program. AVG is good, I had that on my last computer.
With my new one, it came with Avira already installed, and that is excellent
too.
Tweed