How significant are cookie files to hackers?
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Cookies are a tracking device and not particularly useful to hackers except to identify you and even then is not very interesting unless you can be scammed into visiting a fake bank site. You can always delete your cookies. \n\nThey have much more powerful techniques to use on you.
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First you should check if your browser is accepting cookies. Second it is VERY important that you clear your History, Temp and Cookies after each session or else you could be giving hackers a good opportunity to hack into your accounts. Another thing you might want to do is contact your ISP.
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Not to worry..they are secure. Avg disabled them..they are held in the vault in case you find a certian file missing that was mistaken as a virus.\n\nI hope this helped
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Every file in windows has some attributes...when u access the attributes of the file..u can check the created date of the cookie and can guess how much it is old
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You can't be sure if you dont read the source code or disassemble the software, so you basically have to trust the vendor. For additional security its recommended to scan your PC with scanners like AdAware ( http://www.lavasoft.com/software/adaware/ ). \nThis still wont give 100% security, because this program can only find most Spyware, but not all.
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Yes you can, and it's quite easy. Cookies are saved as a plaintext, thus you can open it using any text editor program, like Notepad. \n\nIn Windows XP, the cookies is saved in this path:\n\nC:&#92;Documents and Settings&#92;[YOUR USERNAME]&#92;Cookies\n\nChange the Usernames first then paste it on the Windows Explorer Address Bar.\n\nBe aware the cookies might looked like one long lines with some unrcognizable-character squares. You should delete these squares and replace it with a line feed (press enter) to get a proper cookie view. Or open it on text editor that recognizes non-windows line ending character
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Cookies are not "harmful."  They are flat text files.  The harmful stuff are scripts and programs.  Cookies show up in spy ware scans because they represent an effort by someone on the Internet to catalog or store something from you. Cookies that show up in spy ware scans are normally from known advertisers or marketeers who are marking your information so they can collate into statistics that they sell to others.  Be deleting these files you are telling those marketeers 'NO THANKS.' Don't use me to make money on.\n\nBut not all cookies are bad.  In some cases this may be the fact that you visited the site before and when you go back to the site it responds with "Hi Wendy, welcome back."  How did they know who you are?  Because of a cookie.
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Your username and password will be saved as a cookie (usually). To actually find the file with the information in it would require you to go inside you hard drive and the temporary file folder.
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A cookie is specific to the browser. So if you use a webpage, then another person in the same browser the admin will not notice.\nIf you use a multi-user operating system where each user has to login with username/password then the browsers save the cookies in the user profile. In this case the cookie will be different for each person. The administrator won't know that they use the same computer.\n\nBut I should note: cookies don't collect information. A cookie is a set of text that the webserver gives to the browser to store on the computer. The browser doesn't add information. Next time you visit the website (to be precise anytime you surf a webpage there) the browser sents the cookie as well. So it's only information the website knew anyway.
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There are "tracking" cookies placed on your computers by advertisers that keep record of where you surf so that they can target advertisements to you.  While this is grey as to whether this is invasion of privacy, you CAN control which cookies are placed on your computer.\nMany cookies are useful!!! They keep track of your preferences and settings on websites you use most.\nI'd suggest using Yahoo! Anti-Spyware (Part of the Y! Toolbar) to look for and delete "tracking cookies".  You can also set your security options higher in Internet Explorer (Or whatever browser you use) to prevent or prompt when cookies are detected.
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no, but they should be cleared every couple of weeks, because they can contain information that let's a website track your personal activities.\n\nso if you want privacy, clear your cookie files every couple of weeks.\n\nbut other than that, they're fairly harmless.
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You can check by using the search feature on your computer, selecting "all file types", typing in "cookies" as your search term and looking in your hard drive, usually labeled as the C: drive.  If you have more than one hard drive, you can repeat the search looking in your other hard drive.  You probably won't be able to delete or erase the contents of the index file in each "cookies" folder...at least I haven't figured out how yet.  Anyway, you go ans select basically everything in the cookies folder (it should read user@website, something of that nature), select those, right click and delete, which will probably send them to the recycle bin and then you can empty the recycle bin and that should get rid of them, I think.  If you want to, you can download ad aware SE for free and that should get rid of cookies (which will be categorized by the program as 'malware'), as well as spyware.  It has also been known to detect a trojan downloader agent, which mcafee overlooked for some reason, but anyway....I hope this helps.
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The risks and dangers of not having sufficient privacy or security on your SITE:\n\n(1) Your data can be taken AND/OR revised.\n\nIt summarize only to either of the above point (i.e. HACK). Remember the recent happened to the prophet cartooning? More Denmark’s websites were defaced.
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Yes it will delete passwords and login names on some pages. By that I mean that you will have to login and retype your password on certain web pages after deleting cookies. And yes again it will clear up a lot of space on your hard drive...cookies use a lot of space.\n\nIf you are using the new IE7 you can fix it so that it will save your passwords and login names on certain pages...the same for firefox as well. If you are ju8st removing tracking cookies then your passwords and login names will stay. Most spywares removes tracking cookies.\n\ni make it a regular habit to delete all cookies clear temporary files and history, I run clean sweep and defrag once each week.\n\nHope that this helps you!
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Some hacker you are, hehe. :)
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u need not to be worried bout the cookies ...since everytime u visit the site again they r recreated.....n they just keep a track of ur system...that........whnever u come for the nxt time ..what to serve in the page for u ..if u hav set some options on
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Deleting your cookies, files and history does nothing to remove your online presence.\n\nEvery computer you sign into has your ID (username).  Any IT staff can simply use a sniffer application to see where you and by what computer you are using, its name and dept.  Your IT staff should be able to locate you anywhere on the network within 1 minute.