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From Rolly===

Dear Webby,
Quite a few sites now advertise "One Click Shopping". How
safe is that?

Dear Rolly
That depends entirely on you.
If you use a half decent firewall to keep hackers out of 
your computer, and if you don't click on any weird 
attachments, and if you don't let other people snoop on
your computer, and if you don't use spy-ware, then even 
the sloppiest "One Click Shopping" stores are perfectly 
safe.

The better "One Click Shopping" stores don't store the
information on your computer, because they know the user
is the weak link in the system. They store your shipping 
and billing data securely encrypted on their side and
even after you have identified yourself with a user name 
and password, they only display enough info for you to
make sure that it is indeed your info.

As a rule of thumb, the less often your confidential data
is shown, the more secure it is.

The worst of them are those who store all that info in a 
cookie on your machine. Cookies can be stolen by 
spy-ware and by hackers and even by viruses. 

Have FUN!
DearWebby