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It is on websites that are not well known and established that cookies may become a concern. Because they can be installed without your knowledge, cookies can be installed by a third party from a website that is less than desirable. If you enter login information on a website that installs a cookie on your computer for malicious purposes, that individual can then take the information stored in that cookie and try to use it to steal other pieces of your information. This is easily solved in most cases by setting a higher security level for cookies, requiring that the browser ask you before saving any cookies to your browser or hard drive.
Another possible way in which cookies can negatively affect your computer is when they are stored on your hard drive for too long. Generally, the information there is safe because it is non-executable text files. However, if malware or spyware is installed on your computer, it may be possible for it to access those cookies and start retrieving your login, email, and personal information and sending it back to whomever installed the spyware.
Cookies which contain viruses may also transfer the computer which the cookie is installed in with the virus.
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What are cookies in relation to the internet?
cookies, are text files sent by a server to a web client and could be Web cookies or tracking cookies
What is uses of cookies?
Cookies are used by web page or web sites for storing state information on the PC. Mostly website uses cookies for finding visitors on the site by unique ID.
What are internet cookies?
Information about web pages stored in your web browser (apex)
What happens when you visit websites where cookies are enabled?
When you visit a website, the browser maintains cookies. These cookies help in faster loading of the web pages.
How are cookies passed in the HTTP protocol?
The cookies are usually pass in HTML headers from the web server to the browser.
What is the relevancy of cookies in web technology?
In this case the word cookie describes a small piece of code put on you computer that tells the cmputer what web site you have been to, and what you login and password is to that website, Cookies are stored by the web browser and should be discarded when you leave the website unless you you choise to keep the cookies
What is computer cookies?
A cookie is a sweet baked good which contains sugar, flour, eggs either butter.There are number of delicious varieties of cookies like chocolate cookies, butter cookies, gingerbread cookies and many more.Perfect dessert to celebrate year occasions like valentine's day, Holidays, Birthday, Thanksgiving day etc.
What happen to as we move from step in a chain or web?
1. The Situation 2. The Unsafe Habit 3. The Unsafe Action 4. The Accident 5. The Result
Why are Internet cookies seen as a kind of privacy threat to Internet users?
Cookies can record where and when you visit web pages.
What is web cookies for?
A web cookie will be used fore authenticating, session tracking, and storing information about users, such as site preferences or the contents of their shopping carts. Web cookies will only come from the internet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie
What happens to energy as we move from step to step in chain or web?
1. The Situation 2. The Unsafe Habit 3. The Unsafe Action 4. The Accident 5. The Result
What happen to energy as we move from step to step in chain or web?
1. The Situation 2. The Unsafe Habit 3. The Unsafe Action 4. The Accident 5. The Result
