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Name: Terry
Date: February 13, 2001 at 09:45:58 Pacific
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I don't know how to open the index.dat file in the Cookies folder. Every time I double click it, the MediaPlayer loads but said that it doesn't support the format.

Thanks.



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Name: And
Date: February 13, 2001 at 10:21:02 Pacific
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why do you want to open it in the first place
it's an index to all the files in the cookies folder


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Name:
Date: February 13, 2001 at 10:33:42 Pacific
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It's not in a readable format! It would look like garbage.


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Response Number 3
Name: well
Date: February 13, 2001 at 10:38:08 Pacific
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it IS in a readable format
you just need the right program to do the reading


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Response Number 4
Name: L.G.
Date: February 13, 2001 at 12:01:36 Pacific
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Download a copy of spider,it's on the download page, lower rt corner.


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Response Number 5
Name: Harry
Date: February 13, 2001 at 12:56:26 Pacific
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index.dat can give a few secrets to those nice people at the police dept about what youve been doing on the web. goto http://www.webroot.com and download IE washer to get rid of it each time.


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Response Number 6
Name: DanO
Date: April 18, 2001 at 03:56:55 Pacific
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You don't need to download anything. Open it with notepad. Then under edit, click word wrap. To delete, simply exit windows and delete it from dos. It will rebuild itself as an empty file on boot. I use an old copy of Guard Dog and told it to prompt me so I can deny access to index.dat if I want to.


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