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Old June 1st, 2001
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Default DANGER! Please don't share your entire HD!

Please, please, folks: be careful how you set up you shared folders!

I just did a search for cookies.txt and was astonished with how many results came back. This is the file Netscape uses to store cookies, but IE cookies are also out there in droves for anyone to grab.

I can't even begin to express how EXTEREMELY DANGEROUS this is! Those cookies contain any automatic login information you have for your webmail, online stores, or any other website you use. It would be trivial for someone to insert them into their own browser and impersonate you. Please check your settings and make sure you're sharing only the folders you want to make public.

Really, it would be nice if Gnutella clients prevented users from sharing entire drives and especially the windows folder. At the very least they should give you a very big warning first.
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