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ebrid001
I'm using a Mozilla browser and XP Home.

The last time I ran Lava Soft's Ad-Aware,there were no malicious stuffs,but a number of benign cookies it did not remove,which I understand. I have one for my bank,etc,etc.

The other day,checking with Travelocity for an airplane ticket,I noticed the price went up the second time I checked the flight. I did it again with a different flight,and suspect the price is higher if they have the cookie. Can anybody tell me if I'm right about this?

I have my Firefox set up to remove my private data((everything on the checklist is checked)),but it leaves the benign cookies.

**Is there a way to go into my system,to determine what cookies are present,and to select which,if any,to remove from there.

**Also,someone told me there was a free or a reasonably priced download,that once installed, would "crunch" every time a cookie attempt was made,ask what to do with it,and allow stuff like cookies from the bank or the bill pay service?

Thank you.
TMacK
To view your cookies go into Tools/Options/Privacy/Show Cookies and then scroll down the list of cookies and remove the ones you don't want/need.

A good extension to have is NoScript.

This Guide on How to Allow/Block session Cookies in Firefox might be helpful.
Animal
QUOTE(ebrid001 @ Mar 15 2007, 10:10 AM) *
The other day,checking with Travelocity for an airplane ticket,I noticed the price went up the second time I checked the flight. I did it again with a different flight,and suspect the price is higher if they have the cookie. Can anybody tell me if I'm right about this?

I have done this as well, on two and three separate computers with different IP's and gotten 2 or more different prices. So it is not cookies causing the change. Actually the second and fifth price was the cheapest of the six prices on my first trial. I was never able to determine exactly why prices fluctuate during the selling time period. I did this 3 times. The time frames being about 2 hours to almost 36 hours.
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