"q" <Q@q.com> writes:

> Hello - I have visited a few sites that somehow have information about what
> city I live in. I have cleared autocomplete and history and cookies and
> offline files, and when I go back they still greet me with the city I live
> in. How do they get that info? How do I stop it?
> Running IE 6
> Thanx

They're most likely divining this info from your computer/ISP's IP
address.

If you proxy your web traffic through another server, then the web
site will think you're coming from there.

Tor is a program that pseudo anonymizes your apparent web whereabouts
by the use of onion routing. You can google the program and term for
more information, but basically, it makes you apparent IP address
appear to come from a number of different places.

I agree with Sebastian though, IE6 is likely the bigger issue here.
You should reconsider that choice if you are concerned with security.
ActiveX is just way too pourous. Firefox and Opera are decent
alternatives.

Best Regards,
--
Todd H.
http://www.toddh.net/