Each of these covers a different area of Internet security, allowing you to customise your security settings to reflect your individual needs.

Security Manager
Personal Security Manager is an application that helps protect the security of communications over the Internet, whether browsing the web, shopping, using e-mail or reading newsgroups. When Personal Security Manager is installed on the computer with Netscape 6 it can be used to control various personal security settings.

To access your Personal Security Manager, within Netscape 6 from the Tasks pull-down menu choose Privacy and Security and then Security Manager.

This brings up the Security Manager box which has four tabs available. Information is simply information about the Security Manager. The Applications, Certificates and Advanced tabs contain security controls regarding wider security issues.

This Manager is full of information about all the options. For more details on each, click on the information i icon next to it.

Form Manager
When using the Web, you often need to fill out forms giving your name, address, e-mail details and the like. The Forms Manager can record the details that you entered to a specific form on a specific site. If you then re-access this form, the manager will complete it for you. Each time you need to fill in a form on a new page, Netscape will ask you if you wish to save the form information.

You access the Forms Manager from the Tasks pull-down menu choosing Privacy and Security then Forms Manager. This has 4 options and they are, View Captured form data, View Sites, Interview and Demonstration.

Looking in View Captured form data, you can see all the information you have entered into forms, add new details to be filled automatically or change your details, for example change your address here when you move house.

View Sites will show you a list of forms that you can automatically fill and those that you have chosen not to. From here you can change your selection of which forms to auto-fill and which not to.

Interview is a tool to help you fill in all your details so they can be use to auto-fill forms.

Demonstration previews how this new feature works to so you can try it out.

Password Manager
Some Web sites require a password to access and the Password Manager will allow you to store the user id/password combinations for each site, as you see fit.

From the FAQ:
Netscape 6 features a Password Manager that solves a problem everybody faces -- how to keep track of all your login names and passwords for different sites. The Password Manager addresses this problem by remembering login names and passwords for you and automatically filling them in on future visits to the sites.
You have complete control over which login names and passwords you want the Password Manager to remember. You can choose on which sites to use the feature and which sites not to use it.
A Master Password, which you create, prevents others from using your login names and passwords.

To access the Password Manager, choose the Tasks pull-down menu and then Privacy and Security and Password Manager.

There are 6 options hanging off the menu, as shown. However the last 4 options are all related and do not access sub-menus.

The options are View Stored Passwords, Change Personal security password, Log out, Encrypt Sensitive Information, Obscure Sensitive Information and Clear Sensitive Information.

In the View Stored Passwords box there are two tabs, Passwords Saved and Passwords Never Saved. Passwords Saved shows all the sites that will always store passwords and Passwords Never Saved shows the sites where passwords will not be retained. Each time you need to enter a password on a new page, Netscape will ask you if you wish to save the password information.

When you choose Change Personal security password you can create or change the password used to lock away your secure information.

Normally you are asked for your Personal Security Password once during each Netscape 6 session in which you access any of your stored sensitive information. However, you can log out of your Personal Security Password so that it must be entered again before any sensitive information can be stored or retreived. You do this by choosing Log Out from the Password Manager menu.

If you use Password Manager or Form Manager to save passwords and personal data, then this sensitive information is stored on your computer in a file that's difficult, but not impossible, for an intruder to read. For a greater degree of security, you may want to protect the file with encryption. Encryption makes it nearly impossible for an unauthorized person to view your stored sensitive information. You can choose this option from the Password Manager menu.

Obscuring sensitive information doesn't actually encrypt the sensitive info, it just renders it unreadable to a casual observer. It is not as secure as encryption but is also available from the Password Manager menu.

Clearing the sensitive information permanently removes all sensitive information from the local computer.

Cookie Manager
The Cookie Manager will allow you to track and manage all the cookies that are stored on your machine, so you can choose which sites record your access.

From the FAQ:
Cookie Manager in Netscape 6 is an easy-to-use, breakthrough feature that gives you more control over your privacy. It allows you to control how cookies are set and modified on a site-by-site and cookie-by-cookie basis. This control is important because you may want to permit the use of cookies on familiar and trusted sites, since cookies allow a site to provide you with custom, personalized content. But you might not want to enable cookies on sites with which you are not familiar or do not trust.
Only Netscape 6 gives you such easy and powerful control over cookies to better protect your privacy.

You can access the Cookie Manager from the the Tasks pull-down menu by choosing Privacy and Security and Cookie Manager. There are 3 options here View Stored Cookies, Allow cookies from this site and Block cookies from this site.

View Stored Cookies shows you the list of all the sites that have given you a cookie, you can delete the ones you don't want from here, remove and block some sites or clear all your cookies.

The Allow cookies and Block cookies options let alter your preferences for the Webpage you are viewing.

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