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Q: How dangerous are cookies? A: Cookies are very small files that are stored on your computer. I frequently hear people worried about how the cookies are filling up their computer. Any computer that was bought new in the past few years would require 20,000,000 cookies to fill the hard-drive. That figure would fill a 20 Gigabyte hard drive. Needless to say, a lifetime of browsing 24x7x365 would not fill your hard drive. Far from it.
Typically what cookies are designed to do is to remember that you visited a particullar site and store an ID that allows you to shop on-line or keeps secure information needed to identify you when you log on to a web site. These are typically harmless bits of information, only accessable by the site that requested that your computer save this information.
Cookies also have an expiration date that lets your computer know when to delete it.
Looking here at my own computer, I recently did some shopping on Lincoln Mold Company's web site. In the process of placing the order this small piece of information was placed to identify me and connect me to my shooping cart as items were added to it. Here are the contents of that cookie:
htscallerid
41EEBCE70007CE99000045B300000000
lincoln-mold.com/
1536
1702824576
29760819
1357900672
29687393
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A very small amount of information is stored on my computer.
Another use of the cookie is to allow a site to know what advertisements have been displayed on your screen and provide you with new ones. This obviously helps to give you something new to look at next time you visit Yahoo.com.
If you are worried about what dangerous cookies are on your computer, check out AdAware and SpyBot. These are two good tools to remove any cookies that cross these lines and may threaten the security of your computer.
As long as you are careful as to where you browse and scan often with these two programs (once a month) you will likely have little to no problems with cookies. In the past decade of working on hundreds of computers that are on the Internet, I have seen no instances where a cookie, in and of itself, caused damage or breached security on a computer.
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Violation or abuse of this policy will result in the
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cost of your site. Additional pages are available for an additional
charge per page per year.
** Paid Yearly, hosting only, we
also prefer to maintain your URL registration (www.yourname.com)
for $20/year.
Additional assistance, though seldom needed, is available
in maintaining your web site, billed at our regular hourly
rates.
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Q: Are scrolling banners good to use on web sites? A: This is a bit of a controversy in the web development industry. The inquiry is about how a scrolling javascript banner will effect the placement of a site on the search engine results.
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Q: What is Spyware and Adware? A: Spyware and Adware are programs that are added to your computer, many times without your knowledge or consent. These programs are designe to monitor your browsing habits and report back to the writters of the program so that they can better advertis... MORE
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Q: What is SPAM? A: SPAM is e-mail that you receive that you did not ask for and you do not want. It comprises all the JUNK mail you get in your e-mail account every day. It is mail that you did not ask for and certainly do not want. It is the scourge of the current e... MORE
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