Definition of a "Cookie"...

I see "cookies" like they're kind of a little portable electronic doors that websites can install into your computer, so they can wire you their electronic presentations...

And sort of like solo pingpong.. in which you send the ball out, through a cookie doorway, into a chocolate computer-room, and it bounces back with a little chocolate on it from bouncing in your chocolate computer, and the website tastes the chocolate, and sends a whole cake back to your computer... And you taste it, and maybe eat some.. and save some for later, and toss the rest in the trash...

It's like your computer is point A.. The website is point B.. B shows A what it's got.. A tells B what it wants.. and B sends some C to A... Simple as ABC...

In the case of an Internet virus.. B sends some C to A, with some Z in it...
is why we use Z-stopper softwares to keep A clean and healthy, for when bad B's are stinging good people in the A's.

 

Cookies are just something webpages use to save your configurations in them, so you dont have to reconfigure the page every time you load it... no ABC(Z) in that... Imo...

 

don't put cookies and "tracking" cookies in the same basket. Even MG sets cookies but they're necessary to logon quickly and stuf.

 

Cookies: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
http://www.geekontherun.net/cookies1.htm

I prefer Chocolate Chip with Pecans, Homemade of Course

 

Re: Definition of a "Cookie"...

These types of so-called "cookie" files are stored on your computer in order to basically do the following things while you surf around on the web... The cookies are actually simple "Text files" downloaded onto a "website visitor's" computer hard drive in order to "store the visitor's actions" and then to better utilize and "customize" their consequent visits throughout that same website.

Like when you go to your Bank account online "sign in" and switch to the next page - the computer knows it's STILL YOU and not someone else trying to hack into your session and/or account. Other examples are login or registration information, online "shopping cart" information, user preferences, etc. Cookies can be "read" by that Web site on the next visit and let you continue shopping (or posting your question on this board, etc)

The down side on the "user end" is that these files "in abundance" can make Internet navigation slower, because it takes longer and longer for the websites to "find" the cookie that's stored there; especially when there are many, many Megabytes (or even more) of cookies to pick from and "search through."

That's why CCleaner (which used to be called Crap Cleaner) and other such cleaning tools are such a useful programs - they clean out cookies and other useless files. After you are done browsing the Internet for the day; these files become less useful and continue to add up, CCleaner gets rid of this accumulation according to the checkmarks that you either allow or "uncheck" prior to running the CCleaner tool.

Good Luck!