In the computer. Mom wants to know.
2007-07-01 09:10:23 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
Cookies are messages that web servers pass to your web browser when you visit Internet sites. Your browser stores each message in a small file, called cookie.txt. When you request another page from the server, your browser sends the cookie back to the server. These files typically contain information about your visit to the web page, as well as any information you've volunteered, such as your name and interests.
Cookie is a simple piece of text. It is not a program, or a plug-in, and thus, it cannot access your hard drive. It cannot be used as a virus. Your browser (not a programmer) can save cookie values to its memory (RAM) or a file on your hard disk if it needs to, but that is the limit of its effects on your system. A Cookie Alone Cannot Read Your Hard Drive To Find Out Who You Are, Where You Live, What Your Income Is, Or Other Personal Information. The only way that information could end up in a cookie is if YOU provide it to a site and that site saves to a cookie.
Cookies are not dangerous to your computer or your privacy it does not harm your computer.
If you wane make cookies disable you can do it, many user disable cookies.
How to disable cookies
First click on TOOLS at the top of the screen, then click on INTERNET OPTIONS
Click on the Privacy Tab
Now click on the ADVANCED button
Select the Override automatic cookie handling option
First Party cookies are cookies set by the website you are visiting and Third Party cookies refer to cookies that are set by a different site to the one you are visiting.
You have 3 choices for each type of cookie:
* Accept - Accepts any cookies.
* Block - Blocks all cookies.
* Prompt - Asks you before storing a cookie.
Session cookies are cookies that will expire when you have finished your session on the website (some websites need these cookies enabled to function correctly).
Your choice for the 3 options will depend on your requirements, select whichever settings you want and then click the OK button.
2007-07-01 09:19:01 · answer #1 · answered by {[[ FaaŽerS ]]} 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
snapshots of the webpages you visit
your computer stores them so it can load the webpage faster next time you visit it. they are not harmful just part of internet browsing
2007-07-01 16:14:34 · answer #2 · answered by tommy d 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a way for the website to know you were there at what date and time.
2007-07-01 16:17:57 · answer #3 · answered by cadaholic 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋