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aylmer



Joined: 07 Jan 2006
Posts: 165
PostPosted: 07/06/07 - 05:29    Post subject: Reply with quote
I have a question regarding cookies. I have seen in log window of my antispyware software that it finds some cookies to be undesirable. On the other had, there are some sites that require from you enable cookies to be able to access them. That led me to thought that there are good and bad cookies. Can you tell me if I am right?
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francklyn



Joined: 07 Dec 2004
Posts: 191
PostPosted: 07/31/07 - 23:19    Post subject: Reply with quote
You can say that good and bad cookies exist. Good ones are used to store password for some forums and such sites and to keep history of read messages. They are just for your convenience so you have not to worry about what posts you have visited and what posts are unread. On the other side, there are bad cookies which are used from some marketing research companies to track your activity on internet and to build their databases. These cookies never present serious risks but antispyware programs interpret them as a security threat and delete them, which is right thing to do if you ask me.
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