youtube.com and cookies problem

book12

I want to watch some youtube.com movies, as people say it's a good website to watch all sorts of interesting and funny movies. However, the movies doesn't load. I have the latest macromedia movie player, cookies enabled in the browser to let cookies from the youtube site, I let the cookies in for that site on the browser, and I also set the firewall to allow cookes from the youtube.com site. It still doesnt work. The only way that the movie will load is to disable the firewall. I don't want to do this all the time, as I'm worried that hackers would hack into my computer.

Is there anyway to load the youtube.com movies?

Thanks for your time.

skiddy2k

which firewall have you got? try to add https://www.youtube.com in your rules as a "trusted" IP address

book12

I have zonealarm. I have added the youtube site inthe rules as trusted ip addresses section and also in the privacy section as well. Still doesn't work.

skiddy2k

try to play a movie in googlevideo... http://video.google.com/... does it work?

skiddy2k

read this in another forum (as i dont have ZoneAlarm, so dont know too much about it)... http://forum.zonelabs.org/zonelabs/board/message?board.id=gen&message.id=25296
from looking at that forum, gathered you have to do the following:
1. Shut down Zone Alarm by right clicking on the system tray icon and select 'shutdown'.
2. Navigate to the c:\windows\internet logs folder.
3. Delete the backup.rdb and iamdb.rdb files in the folder (keep a backup somewhere, just incase)
4. Start Zone Alarm again.

Once you do that, manually add https://www.youtube.com back to your site list in Privacy, once there right click on it, then click on 'options' and once again uncheck everything clicking 'apply' as you go through. Now go to the site or refresh the site and see if that fixed it.