@EldritchCellar:

Your'e probably right there, and I'm too paranoid sometimes.

I've already allowed more cookies on my web machine than is healthy... But in case I catch something nasty there, it's easy to revert to a backup of the drive, so no harm is done.

But if that should occur on my workstation, I'ld be f... Thus I always keep them separate.

So Bondware can try to analyze my surfing as much as they try (I keep deleting cookies regularly, and TOR filters out most of malicious scripts from other sites too) It would be all OK if I was at a site that I can really trust, but these have become very rare these days. So I've resorted to the motto "TRUST NO ONE", and I haven't had an infection ever since the infamous "I Love You" worm (I think that was back in 2005 somewhat).

And believe it or not: I don' even use any "antivirus" snake-oil - just the firewall in my router, and a sandbox in case something goes terribly wrong.

But I think we're getting off-topic here, so if you (or anybody else) are interested in discussing this more in-depth, we should either use PM or create a new thread!

K