[LINK] RFI: Intrusive Internet Mechanisms

[Karl Auer]

On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 18:28 +1100, Jan Whitaker wrote:
> At 02:31 PM 1/12/2010, Karl Auer wrote:
> >If you use Flash, you should also set the permissions on the Macromedia
> >home directory to forbid writing. I don't know how you would do that in
> >Windows, but in Linux it's
> >
> >    sudo chown root:root /your/home/directory/.macromedia
> >    sudo chmod go-rwx /your/home/directory/.macromedia
> 
> Here's the path I finally found after looking around all over the disk:
> C:\Documents and Settings\Jan Whitaker\Application 
> Data\Macromedia\Flash Player\macromedia.com\support\flashplayer\sys
> It wasn't in the other Documents and Settings subdirs nor in the Program Files.

Googling for "windows macromedia flash cookies" finds a heap of
plausible looking candidate answers. I don't use windows, so can't
really help much more.

> Are you saying this folder should be set to read only?

If you can do that effectively in windows, yes. After emptying it, of
course. But be very sure it is the correct directory first (or take a
backup) as I imagine it would be possible to break Flash completely if
you delete/empty the wrong directory.

Regards, K.

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