Re: information being stored from cgi forms

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-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Johnson <bob () PFBC ORG>
To: VULN-DEV () SECURITYFOCUS COM <VULN-DEV () SECURITYFOCUS COM>
Date: Friday, March 10, 2000 11:16 AM
Subject: information being stored from cgi forms

> Hi guys:
>
> I apologize if this is not a reasonable question to ask this group, but:
>
>
> Within the past couple of weeks I've noticed that when I answer questions
on
> any web based   form (questionnaire, application, etc.) on any web site -
it
> seems that each time I press the <ENTER> key or <TAB> key or use the down
> arrow to go to the next field, it takes much longer to advance to the next
> field than it used to.
>
> It's almost like the data that I type in is being stored somewhere on the
> hard disk before I can advance to the next field.
>
> This happens in both secure and non-secure forms.
>
> I run my virus checker every day and show to be clean (McAfee and Norton).
I
> also use ConSeal Firewall and it doesn't report any attempts to send
> information from my computer to anyone.
>
> The computer had plenty of ram and hard disk space, so I don't think it's a
> hardware problem.
>
> Thanks for your help (and patience in reading this letter).
>
> Bob Johnson

If your using internet Explorer or Netscape 4+, it stores all the
information you put in a cgi form except passwords, for later use, most of
the time their just put in cookies, try deleting all your cache and cookies
and see if itll help