kind of like the Apaches

you may have heard of Pop-Up Stopper, a utility for keeping annoying ads from appearing on your screen. i have it and i understand it's from a reputable company. (Panicware -- http://www.panicware.com/ ) i also have microsoft's anti-spyware. i mean, there are a lot of bad guys out there, right?

anyhow, i discovered this nifty little program from Panicware called KeepIt and i installed the Full version. it's free, like Pop-Up Stopper, and is intended to be a suitcase for all your user names and passwords.

like a suitcase, you fill it with stuff and then lock it up -- you can only get in with the correct key. hubby has his passwords written on notes, and i have mine typed into docs. this program keeps them all in one place so you can access them without having to hunt. it is very simple and user-friendly, quick to set up, and a snap to work.

several times during the day i clean out my internet files (on IE go to 'Tools' 'Internet Options...' 'Temporary Internet files' 'Delete Files...' 'Delete all offline content' 'OK' ) , and while i was surfing around this afternoon, i read something that said the Cookies information was not only available to the people who put them there, but to others passing by. sure, i have been going into the system and deleting all cookies except the ones i needed to get on sites without having to redo my name/password. but -- if those precious cookies are providing information to a lot of snoopers ..... well, the hell with that. voila! KeepIt!

so now i am going to routinely delete my files and my cookies! take that, snoopers! er, rather .... you can't have that, snoopers!