Hi all, Sorry for the first msg but I thought I'd been put on an anti-spam list. Obviously I haven't - at least by this list. OK. I have my safari cookie prefs set to 'accept cookies only from sites I visit". After a while I find that this has altered to 'accept all'. I can't find a reason for it except that a rogue cookie alters the prefs. I don't think I have any spyware - Snitch doesn't report anything unusual. For the record I'm running as user. As a workround I've altered the permissions to, owner = admin and user = read only. However I'm curious as to what might be going on. cheers, Chris