I beg to differ SRS. I recently changed a setting in my virus protection: Intego Virus Barrier for Mac OSX. This was a specific cookie filter in the Firewall settings and was turned on as I hadn't used it previously and wanted to see how effective it was. I use several extensions to block, ads and Googles nosy data collectors with no harm to my web browsing and so I had assumed that it would accept currently existing cookies and then act to block and alert me to accept or decline the cookie.

This was an error on my part and several days later when I started having problems logging in to Mudcat, I didn't make a connection with what I had done earlier and the current problem. Advice from Joe was to no avail as well. No amount of cookie resetting left it in place. Before I got into heavy duty trouble shooting I did some checks and found that when the filter was enabled the Mudcat cookie disappeared. Hence this Intego function is now disabled and there are no further problems.

I think the keyword is that Virus protection shouldn't affect cookies of logon but it can, hence my small contribution earlier.

Cheers,

Andrez