Thursday, July 16, 2009

Why does Hotmail & Gmail say that "cookies are blocked" when there definitely are not?

I have my Privacy set to "accept all cookies" and turned off all firewalls, but Hotmail %26amp; Gmail STILL say "cookies are blocked" and will not let me into their sites.
Why does Hotmail %26amp; Gmail say that "cookies are blocked" when there definitely are not?
You turning off ALL firewalls presents two problems


A) You shouldn't need more than one good firewall


B) and more importantly, You should never disable your firewall





So the fact that you are having a problem getting onto sites and you have disabled your security would lead me to believe that you probably have some infection.





I suggest you ensure that you have a complete security suite (antivirus, firewall, antispyware, etc) from a reliable vendor (like mcafee, norton, kaspersky, etc... not freeware) and that they are properly configured, enabled, and automatically updating.. and then once you are sure they are completely up to date and you're all rebooted... I suggest you turn off any running programs and perform a complete scan of your computer.





Good Luck
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