As promised, I have done research and have uncovered some very interesting things I believe those using Opera, specifically 3.50, should know. Preferences->Advanced: This is where the Cookie logging option is. As you said about Netscape, this should be disabled. Another interesting thing here is Referrer Logging. This option allows those monitoring a given site to see where you came from, and quite possibly where your going. This is a definite uncheck. Preferences->Multimedia: Here resides if Javascripting is enabled. Don't see Javascript? It's under scripting languages. Unchecking this box takes out javascript. Why is this important? The best way to keep yourself safe from javascript bombs is to not enable it in the first place. Kinda like having a mine sniffer. Remember where this is, just in case you DO need javascripting enabled for certain pages. Preferences->Link Presentation: For the true paranoids, set both non-visited and visited links to the same color, and the same format (underlined, bold, ect.) A nasty trick that I have not come across, but I can imagine, is someone setting their page refresh rate to gather information. An option here, Enable Document Loading, when unchecked, prevents this. If you have any question about whether your preferences are giving away anything about you that you DON'T want, check out your Opera.ini. Also, unless moved, Opera's cache is located at c:\opera\cache Mhead