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::Nixory OnLine Manual ::

::OnLine Manual Summary::

INTRODUCTION
:::What's Nixory
:::What are cookies and spyware

INSTALL
:::Install Windows (95/98/2000/ME/XP)
:::Install for other platforms

USING NIXORY
:::Main Window
:::Preference Window
:::Scan Window
:::Remove Tool
:::Update Window
:::Event log Window
:::Groups of Data Miner: High,Medium,Low

:::Change Nixory Theme
:::Credits

::What's Nixory::

Nixory is a Python\PyGTK program. It protects the user from malicious data mining for the browser Mozilla Firefox. There are many kinds of data miners. The most common are malicious cookies (see next chapter) that slip from Internet web sites (Often from banners) to a 'Container' ,usually a file. Thanks to a fast and accurate scan, Nixory will find (if there are) tracking cookies and it will completely remove them. To install Nixory, you absolutely don't need to uninstall other anti-spyware, anti-virus, etc. applications because Nixory doesn't edit the system registry or a live process. In other words, Nixory wants to be a powerful, fast, multi-platform and opensource program that protects which is a mature and secure browser. It's released with GNU General Public License.

::What are cookies and spyware::

Cookies are text files, and so, they can store informations. All Internet browsers can get cookies from web pages, and they will use them for a lot of utilities. For example, they can memorize user names on forums; also, most Access Counters use them. But not all cookies are useful. There are also malicious cookies called 'Data Miners' (or tracking cookies). Data miners take information about the user (IP\Host) and sometimes they tell these informations to other web sites. Nixory can find data miners and remove from the computer the selected ones. According to some tests, 90% of Internet-connected computers receive at least one kind of spyware, even on websites thought secure. Because there are also useful cookies, clearing all cookies from the 'Container' isn't always a good idea.