JimJoe

And run Ad-aware to get rid of the data miner cookies, which connect with advertiser servers and can slow down your computer booting up. Data miner cookies try to connect to the advertiser server while our computer boots. Ten minute boot times is about right for around 100-200 of these things. One of my sisters have over 300 of them on her computer last month.

Basically its where all that junk mail comes from. A data miner cookie, say for a major department store when you visit their web site, gets placed on your computer. The advertiser server sees a jump in the number of people visiting that department store's web site. Mostly no personal info is gathered. An order to the nearest junk mail printer, then the weekly coupons in the newspaper now include one for that major department store.