How Internet Cookies Work ?
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Cookies are small files which are stored in your computer by websites you visit. \n\nCookies are used to remember you, track what you get up to and sometimes are used to track your browsing habbits.\n\nThey are used for a lot of things.
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websites use cookies to keep track of you. For example without cookies yahoo wouldn't know you logged in. When you delete cookies that tells your browser to forget everything and you will have to relog into all your sites. Sometimes cookies are also used to keep track of your activities online, which may be considered an invasion of privacy, but no personal information is disclosed.
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Cookies are small piece of data stored on your computer used by websites to identify your computer next time you visit the same site. These can be accesses through your browser, or by simply through the windows explorer. You can erase all cookies on your browser by going to Tools>Internet Options>Delete cookies. \nIf you want to specifically delete yahoo related cookies you should open the cookies directory and select yahoo cookies and delete them. For example, on My Win XP machine the directory was C:&#92;WINDOWS&#92;Temp&#92;Cookies.
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You need Cookies\nthey are a little text file that web site add cookies so \nthey know who you are so when you log on to the site you still have the preferences for that web page\n\nMany web sites need cookies to work properlly\n\nThere also tracking cookies where some spyware programs will detect and delete.
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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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If you are using Windows I can help. Go to your control panel and open up internet options. Then click on the privacy tab. From here you can slide the privacy bar up and down to the relevant setting you would like. Read the description of which cookies are allowed under each setting in order to decide. \n\nAlternatively you can delete your existing cookies by opening internet explorer (7.0) and clicking on Tools->Delete Browsing History. There is a button there for deleting cookies.
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Opera gives you detailed control of what cookies to accept and reject, such as allowing for different set-ups for different servers.\n\nThe settings in Tools > Preferences > Advanced > Network and Tools > Preferences > Advanced > Cookies determine how Web servers handle and monitor your net activities.\n\nReferrer logging\nSome Web sites register the site that referred you to them. This information can be used to control content by delivering documents that have some bearing on the site that you came from. If you prefer not to allow a Web site to know where you were before visiting it, especially if you were on a local, secure, or restricted site, disable this option. Note, however, that some sites depend on referrer logging internally. \n\nEnable automatic redirection\nSometimes a site might redirect your browser to a different URL, often because the site has moved. Leaving this option enabled does not constitute a big security risk, but turn it off if you want complete control of what sites you visit. \n\nWhat are cookies?\nCookies are: Strings of text, pieces of information stored in files, that Web servers store on your computer when you are browsing. These files let the same servers recognize your computer the next time you visit their sites. \n\nCookies are not: Viruses. They cannot cause direct damage to your computer system in any way, but they can record your browsing habits in intrusive manners and trace your movements across different Web sites. \n\nSome sites use cookies to store your user name, which means, for example, that for 10 hours after you log in with your password, you will not have to retype your password when you check your e-mail. This is a convenience, but it can also be a security hazard if others have access to the computer you are using. \n\nAnother use of cookies is to store information about the pages in a site that you have visited previously. This allows a Web site to customize itself with fresh content, rather than showing you the old material, and to present you with content you might be interested in based on what you have already viewed on the site. \n\nNote that the "Use cookies to trace password-protected pages" option in the privacy preferences does not affect Internet activity, it merely uses the cookies saved to remove password-protected pages from your cache, and is thus mainly of interest if you are using Opera with a shared user account. \n\nInvalid cookies\nThere are types of cookies that Opera will refuse regardless of whether you have set the browser up to handle all cookies. These are cookies set for top-level domains: domains ending in .com, .net, and .org, among others. Such cookies are considered invalid or illegal and are blocked because: \n\nAny Web site could read such a cookie's contents, it would have unlimited access.\nThe only use for such cookies is to track surfers across the Web.\nOpera will not let you accept these cookies. \n\nConfiguring cookie settings\nOpera allows for a wide range of cookie setups. You can allow all cookies to be stored on your computer. You can refuse all cookies to be stored. Or, you can selectively allow certain cookies and certain types of cookies. \n\nYour first option is whether to enable cookies at all. Note that you may have difficulties logging on to a significant amount of Web sites if you leave this unchecked. \n\nThe next step is deciding which cookies to accept and which to refuse. You can choose to allow only cookies that are set by the Web site you are visiting, not by any other sites whose content is displayed in frames or via images on the current page. You can choose to be prompted every time you receive a cookie, and to delete all new cookies when exiting Opera. \n\nManaging cookies\nClicking "Manage cookies" takes you to your Server Manager, which lists all the domains you currently have cookies from. You can add new domains, delete the domains you do not wish to keep cookies from a
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Yes It is true It registers from cookies pathnames to websites to images even passwords. But there is a way to prevent that and even errasing the histories.\n\none way is to :\n1. click on the tools menu at the menu bar at the top of the window.\n2.select internet options from the cascading menu(Remember you must be doing this from your internet browser. eg internet explorer)\n3. click the "delete all cookies"& "Delete files" from the small window that appears (it is usually in the middle of the small window under the temporary internetfiles option).\n4. finally select apply and ok. then you exit.\n\ninorder to prevent your browser recording your privacy \n\n1. while you are still in the internet options window down at the bottom \n\n2. adjust the no of days that the web browser can keep your history to 0 days then save.\n\nBut just to be on the safe side.\n\n1.open documents & settings from the c:&#92; drive(make sure it is the system drive that contains the operating system) \n2. select your user profile folder and open it eg "administrato"\n\n3.go to local settings(this file us usually hidden so inorder to adjust it\ni. click the tools oprion in the menu bar \nii. then click folder options \niii. select the View tab \niv. in the list that displays select"show hidden files and folders" option make sure it is marked \nv. save and exit then select the local settings folder.)\n\n4.empty all folders except the "application data" folder\n\n5.exit and no one will know where you have been online \n\n"also you can download free history deleters and cookie editors that can wipe out your browser history."\n\nlink to cookie editor download is bellow!
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You can possibly find the page by looking in your cookies are Temporary Internet files. But I wouldn't bank on it. It will only work if:\n\n1.) The site stored a cookie, must sites do.\n2.) You downloaded something from there.
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cookies are used to store information about a user on their computer.  generally, it's used to track preferences, and allows customization of websites.  it also gets used to keep track of shopping cart contents.  cookies are used in combination with sessions to track this info.\n\ncookies can not travel between domains as this violates security.  if you're seeing the same cookie name on multiple websites, it could be because both sites are using similar application software (that use the same naming conventions).\n\nmore likely, it's a coincidence (especially if you're noticing a common cookie name such as userid).\n\nsome people freak out about cookies "tracking" their behavior, but if everyone turned off cookies, much of the web wouldn't work.  analytics programs require cookies most of the time to track a user through a website.  this might sound like an invasion of a user's privacy, but it helps web site builders build better websites, because it allows them to understand the behavior of users and where the problem spots are on a web site.
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You canot go to and check cookies or history at every client PC. You have to setup you network as below:\nInternet -> DSL modem -> Hub or Switch -> Firewall PC (with ISP, or...) -> Client PCs\nSo that, every client PC connects to internet through the Firewall PC. And you can use logbook in ISP to find out which location people go
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This page should solve all the required queries : \n\nhttp://www.andyrathbone.com/tips/cookies.html
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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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Many websites issue "cookies" when you visit them.  So if you check the "save login info box" it issues you a cookie that has that info on it.  If you clear your cookies from your internet browser, then you will lose that infomation.
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You delete them from your browser. Each browser is different. For IE, you go to the tools menu, select "internet options..." and then "Delete Cookies"
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short answer: very little. \n\nmost websites dont really rely on cookies anymore cos users dont like them. temporary files are just that - temporary. so no biggie.
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Deleting cookies\nYou can delete all or some cookies in Internet Explorer.\n\nTo delete a single cookie\n\nIn Internet Explorer, click the Tools button, and then click Internet Options. \nOn the General tab, under Browsing history, click Settings. \nClick the View files button. \nClick the Name column heading to sort all the files alphabetically, and then scroll down until you see files that begin with the prefix Cookie:. All cookies will have that prefix, and they usually contain the name of the website that created the cookie. \nRight-click the cookie you want to delete, click Delete, and then click Yes. \nClose the window that contains the list of files, and then click OK twice to return to Internet Explorer. \nTo delete all cookies\n\nIn Internet Explorer, click the Tools button, and then click Internet Options. \nOn the General tab, under Browsing history, click Delete. \nClick Delete cookies. \nWhen you are prompted to confirm that you want to delete cookies, click Yes. \nClick Close, and then click OK. \n Note\n\nSome websites store your member name, password, or other information about you in a cookie. If you delete that cookie, you might need to enter your personal information again the next time you visit the site. \nRelated Topics