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Posted by Desiree on May 10, 1999 at 10:41:52:
In Reply to: cookies posted by Joan on May 10, 1999 at 09:46:41:
From Netscape: NetHelp
"...A "cookie" is a small amount of information that a web site copies to your hard disk. A cookie can help a web site identify you the next time you visit."
From a misc FAQ:
"What are Cookies"
A "cookie" is a small piece of information which a web server can store temporarily in Netscape and then later retrieve. For example, when you browse through an "on-line shopping mall" and add items to your "shopping cart" as you browse, a list of the items you've picked up is stored by Netscape so that you can pay for all of the items at once when you're finished shopping. It's much more efficient for each web browser (Netscape) to keep track of information like this than to expect the web server to have to remember who bought what, especially if there are thousands of people using it the web server at a time. As you browse the web, any cookies which servers might send to your copy of Netscape are stored in your computer's memory. When you quit out of Netscape, any cookies that haven't expired are written to a cookie file so they can be reloaded next time you run Netscape. (On a Mac this file is named "MagicCookie", on Unix it's "cookies", and on Windows it's "cookies.txt". You can look at this file with a text editor (MS Word, WordPad) to see exactly what cookies are stored there, or delete the file to get rid of all of the cookies.
From a misc FAQ:
Can I catch a virus by looking at a Web page?
Your computer cannot catch a virus by just clicking on a web page, even if it has graphics or plays movies, sound or 3D files. It is possible to get a virus if you download a program or application and run it. It is important to consider whether you trust the site you are downloading the files from. A virus could cause serious problems on your computer.
Malicious web authors can retrieve information from your hard disk, wipe out the hard disk, etc. This is embedded within the HTML code and activated while the user is visiting the page. This is different than a virus where something is deposited onto the user's hard disk and do any range of damage. So..as always, just be aware of sites you visit.
Des.
