Everytime i run my c cleaner, i have a long list of cookies ?

are these harmfull ?? and how can i stop this please ??? thankyou ?

Everytime i run my c cleaner, i have a long list of cookies ?
Cookies





Cookies are actually harmless text files that certain websites will place onto the hard drive of your computer. Your Internet Browser will then load the information into memory while you are visiting their site. The Cookie itself, actually takes up very little space and acts as an identification card for the visiting site. You can compare this to visiting your favorite restaurant where your food server will usually remember certain aspects of how you like your food prepared and what you usually order. This information would obviously be based upon his familiarity of your prior visits. Well Cookies actually act in a similar manner and do not contain viruses as a virus must be executable file. .





Why Sites Use Cookies?





There are numerous reasons why websites would want to use cookies. These range from statistical purposes, such as how many visitors came to the site. This can be further broken down into are they new visitors or actually repeating visitors and how often do they visit. The Website would actually create a unique id for each visitor and store this information into a database.





Cookies can be used to store your personal preferences, referred to as customizations, that you set while navigating their site. For instance, if you visit Yahoo.com, you can sign in to create your very own personal yahoo page where you can customize it according to your news and weather preferences after providing your zip code. You can even change the color of the page layout as well.





Online Shopping sites can use cookies to keep track of items that you add to their shopping carts and quick checkout options. The cookie will keep track of every item that you add to the shopping cart while you continue to browse through different pages or even entirely different sections of their site. Every item you add is stored within the Web site’s database along with a unique ID value that has been assigned to you. Therefore, when you select the check out option, the site automatically knows what items are in your cart by retrieving those selections from its database. This is why sites such as Amazon or eBay will prompt you to enable cookies in case you have disabled them.





Cookies also provide web designers and programmers with a quick and convenient method of keeping their site content fresh and up to date according to the interests of their users. Modern web servers use Cookies for back-end interaction as well, allowing them to securely store any personal data that the user has entered within a site. Therefore, on return visits the user now only has to enter partial information to access their account and purchases can be made quicker as their payment information is on file regarding their previous purchases.





In closing, as Cookies are actually small text files, they really can not damage your computer system or any files on your hard drive. Once again, they cannot transmit viruses as viruses are executable in nature. Some users may just not want to be tracked and this is one of the primary reasons why many people just disable accepting cookies.








For The Latest Version of Internet Explorer





Click on the word Tools, which is contained in your top tool bar area.





This will pull down a menu for you to now click on Internet Options.





Then click on the Privacy tab located at the top of the options windows.





Then click on the Advanced tab to bring up the Advanced Privacy Settings windows.





This is the area where you can define how Cookies are handled on your system etc.
Reply:most of the time cookies are not harmful but some like "tracking cookies" they can cause some problems,cookies are very small files that store information about a visitor. A Web site stores cookies on the visitor's browser so that the Web site can remember something about the visitor at a later time,removing the cookies is a good choice Good luck ;)
Reply:Disabling your cookie history in Internet Explorer 6.0 or greater





1. Load your Internet Explorer web browser


2. Click the View menu tab


3. Choose Internet Options


4. Select the Privacy Tab Click Advanced


5. Click Never accept cookie, block cookies or Warn me before accepting cookies.
Reply:Looks like G already gave you the answer. So now that is settled you can just call me and we can talk about something else. Love, honey
Reply:sorry shylow i dont know
Reply:I do get the same long list and have always cleared them. Virtually all of them will be removed but some very few will be left behind. I have learned not to removed these few left-overs otherwise I will run into some slight problem when next I start my system.
Reply:In the main cookies are not harmful. Every time you visit the internet lots and lots of history cookies will be downloaded.





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