While the Zone Alarm Security Suite is open the sixth (6th) tab from the top is the "Privacy" tab. The first page that is displayed is the "MAIN" page. The main page highlights the following:
Zone Alarm Privacy Tab Site List Page
Customizing Cookie Control
Internet cookies make it possible for e-commerce sites (like Amazon, for example) to recognize you as soon as you arrive and customize the pages you visit. However, cookies can also be used to record information about your Web browsing habits and give that information to marketers and advertisers.
By default, Cookie control is disabled and all types of cookies are allowed. You can you instantly block all cookies by choosing the High cookie-control setting, which gives you full protection against all types of cookie abuse--but at the expense of the convenience that cookies make possible.
If you wish, you can instantly block all cookies by choosing the high cookie-control setting, giving you full protection against all types of cookie abuse--but at the expense of the convenience that cookies make possible.
You can customize cookie control by specifying which types of cookies are blocked and if cookies are allowed, when those cookies should expire.
The Privacy group of features that includes cookie control is available in Zone Alarm Pro and Zone Alarm Security Suite.
- Blocking session cookies
- Blocking persistent cookies
- Blocking third-party cookies
- Setting an expiration date for cookies
Understanding Cache Cleaner
By default, Cache Cleaner cleans the following files from your hard drive:
- Contents of the Recycle Bin
- Contents of the Temp files directory
- Windows Scandisk fragments
You can customize these settings by specifying additional areas to be cleaned, including your Document history, Search history, or Windows Media Player history.
- Clean Document history - Cleans the list of files that appears at Start|Documents . This setting only applies to the document history for the currently logged-in user.
- Clean Recycle Bin - Cleans the contents of the Windows Recycle Bin. Selected by default.
- Clean Temp Files Directory - Cleans the Windows temp directories. Selected by default.
- Clean Windows Find/Search history - Cleans the items in the Windows Find/Search list.
- Clean Windows Scandisk fragments - Cleans chunks of lost or damaged data recovered by Windows' ScanDisk program. Selected by default.
- Clean Windows Media Player history - Cleans the list of recently played media clips in Windows Media Player.
- Run history - Cleans the list that appears in the Open drop-down list at Start|Run.
Click Apply, then click OK.
If you use either Internet Explorer or Netscape, you can configure Cache Cleaner to remove cookie files that are stored on your computer while you browse the Web. Cache Cleaner identifies cookies to remove by the cookie source, rather than by the individual cookie file. When you specify a cookie source to remove, Cache Cleaner removes all cookies from that source. If there are cookies on your computer that you do not want to remove, you can configure Cache Cleaner to retain those cookies.
- Clean cache - Cleans the Internet Explorer browser cache. Selected by default.
- Clean URL history - Cleans the URLs list in the Address field. Selected by default.
- Clean AutoComplete forms - Cleans the previous entries you've made for Web forms, including passwords. Note: If you do not want your passwords to be cleaned, clear the "Clean AutoComplete forms" check box.
- Clean AutoComplete passwords - Cleans passwords for which you selected "Remember password."
- Clean typed URL history - Cleans the URLs you have typed into the Address field. Selected by default.
Netscape Tab
- Clean cache - Cleans the Netscape browser cache. Selected by default.
- Clean URL history - Cleans the URLs list in the Location field. Selected by default.
- Clean mail trash - Cleans the Netscape Mail Trash folder.
- Clean forms data - Cleans the previous entries you've made for Web forms.
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