ParetoLogic Privacy Controls Whitelist Explained

You may have Firefox cookies on your system that you do not want to delete or erase. ParetoLogic Privacy Controls has a special feature that will allow you to do this. It is the ParetoLogic Privacy Controls Whitelist. The Whitelist is a list made up of accepted items. In the circumstances of ParetoLogic Privacy Controls, the Whitelist is made up from items you accept as ones you do NOT want to erase. The items that are listed on the Whitelist will not be included in the erase procedure when you run the scan.

ParetoLogic Privacy Controls and Firefox Cookies

A Cookie is a file that is kept on your computer after you have been to a web site. There are cookies that will hold data on your system like your user name and password allowing you to return to the site and not have to enter this information each time. Cookies are sometimes used to track your browsing activities across the Internet. This is done to give you specific advertisements geared at the sites you have been at. They try to entice you to make purchases. When these types of cookies are on your system your privacy and security of information is at risk. If you trust the web site the cookie is from you could add the cookie to your Whitelist. The username and password cookies could be saved allowing you fast and easy access to the site in the future.

You have the ability to clear Firefox cookies putting them on the ParetoLogic Privacy Controls Whitelist ensuring they will not be erased from your system. It is a good idea to remove the ones that track and keep the ones with the logon information. You can add any Firefox cookie(s) to ParetoLogic Privacy Controls Whitelist easily.

Adding an Firefox Cookie to the Whitelist of ParetoLogic Privacy Controls

You can add any of the Firefox cookies to the Whitelist by following these steps:

1 – Setting the Scan Options

Click the Options button on the left side of the Main Window and be sure that both the Internet Browser and Firefox categories are selected as shown below:

You can read more about Scan Options in the Help files or under: How do I Run a Scan with ParetoLogic Privacy Controls?

2 – Beginning the Scan

Click the Scan & Erase button located on the left side of the main window and you will then open this window:

Click on the Start button to begin the scan.

3 – Scan Results

After the scan is complete you will see a window similar to this:

In the scan results find the Firefox category shown here (located under Internet Browsers in the list):

Expand the Firefox category by clicking on the down arrow to the left. You will see a screen similar to this showing all of the files under the Firefox category:

Expand the Cookies category by clicking on the down arrow to the left. All of the cookies for Firefox will be listed here. You can see one cookie in this example:

Go through the entire list and clear any of the check boxes that are associated with the cookie(s) you want ParetoLogic Privacy Controls to accept. The first time you do this you may find a very large amount of cookies to check out, but all of them should be looked at. It will depend on how often you do scans as to how many cookies you will have to check in future scans; the longer in between scans, the more you will have.

4 – Erase Process

When you are finished checking and clearing the cookies you can select the Erase button to finish the process.

All of the settings you made are kept for future scans allowing the cookie to be stored on your computer. If you ever need to erase the cookie all you have to do is put a check in the checkbox next to it.

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