what are cookies on the internet???

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

Cookies are just small .txt (text) files that by themselves cannot hurt your computer. Cookies are "set" by almost every web-site that you visit, on every visit. You can delete all your cookies today and by tomorrow you will have dozens again just by visiting web-sites.

Cookies are NOT a virus.

Cookies do NOT slow down a computer, at least the first million or so that you might have on your computer!

Children are the people that are always the most nervous about cookies. Because cookies are an easy way for Mommy and Daddy to find out exactly what their darling 'lil kids have been looking at on the web.

Personally, If I happen to remember it, I will delete my cookies every 6 months or so :-)

Just don't delete any cookies for websites that you have forgotton the password for. Without cookies you will need to sign-in again until the site generates a new cookie.

Cookies are much ado about nothin'.

Answer 3

Cookies are very small script kind of texts that keep information about your behavouir on the internet.

A cookie is sent by a web site and your browser send the cookie back when you visit the same site. They keep track on your personal or web site spesific information like username and the color of the site.

Answer 4

Cookies are there to let the owner of that site know that you've been there. It also allows you to access that site a lot quicker. Also it contains your user name and password that you will need on some sites, like Yahoo in groups that you are in, or eve T V station web sites that require you to log in.

Answer 5

cookies are small files that a website sends to your computer so that when you revisit the website, it remembers you. unfortunately, many websites use this info to spy on you.