I am running the free version of Zone Alarm, and I ran the Security Check on symantec.com for my computer, and I passed on everything except for:

Checks whether your Web browser releases information about the site you last visited to other Web sites.

Scan Results:
You are at risk of exposing your Web browsing history to other Web sites that you visit.

So the above looks like, if I go to certain websites, they could view my IE history. Is there anyway to disable this in IE, or ZA? Maybe I need to upgrade to ZA pro?

Thanks for the help
--Zero

I think it has to do with the cookies that are placed on your computer. Some cookies share info across multiple sites that show what other sites you have been on. Someone else might have more information too.

You can try changing your cookie settings to high in the privacy settings of internet explorer, delete all cookies except the ones you want to keep, like the one for computing.net for instance :)

Then run the test again and see if you get a different result. You can also use Spybot to check for spyware cookies and delete them.

Zone Alarm Pro has cookie blocking too, I can't remember if the free version has that but you can check and if it does, you can block cookies there also. For some sites, you need cookies unless you want to sign in every time. It's a trade off between what level of security you want and ease of surfing the web.

There might be another reason for getting that result that I'm not remembering.

thats the most stupid part of the testing sorry to say. if you set your cookies to high you can run into problems logging into secure sites like yahoo, hotmail etc. I think to pass that cookie test you have to block ALL cookies so that there is no possibility of you storing a rogue cookie that log you etc ... but whats the point you need the cookies ??
you should leave your IE cookie settings at "medium high" thats all you need
hope it helps

I think these reports are overkill. Follow what SUZI and HYLIAN_LINK have suggested. There are so many websites that you want visit that use cookies, that you will go crazy going through all the steps to select enable/disable them to maintain that level of security, and for what. These reports add to our paranoia, which is already high enough. I have Zone Alarm pro, and if I set the privacy setting to high to block all cookies, I cannot get into this site without going through several steps to allow it. You can also use the privacy settings in IE6 for cookies too. Is it necessary to use those steps, so this site is on my approved websites, perhaps, but to me it is not worth the effort. For me as long as my browser cannot get hyjacked, my antivirus and firewall works and no-one can take control of my system to obtain or change my data. If someone has some information that is on a cookie, is no worse than you having to grant access when you open a webpage, which is why you must have your browser properly configured, and/or have an antivirus program that will protect you for this type of attack. How far do we take this? You can always delete all your cookies when you delete the temp internet files, but even that action can cause some work for you for many programs you use. Take care and all the best!

I think im just going to keep IE settings at the default level, because that is the most unimportant test on the Security scan anyways. I think the test is overly infasized too when it says "You are at risk of exposing your Web browsing history to other Web sites that you visit." When it really just is a few dumb spyware cookies. I'll just clear my cookies more often, and use adaware too to keep those "unfriendly cookies off."
Thanks to everyone that helped :)

--TrustedZero

There are cookie control programs I have only read about, not used, which will alert you whenever a site tries to put a cookie on. There is info at Spywareinfo.com on these programs. I have not tried them because it sounds like too much trouble. I just delete the spyware cookies every day with Pest Patrol or Spybot.