Computer cookies
Have you noticed that when you come back to that website where you made purchase days later, you are greeted with a phrase like 'Welcome back ...!'. Do you know how websites remember your name and preferences? The answer is very simple - websites use computer cookies.
Computer cookies are pieces of data that are sent to your browser from web sites you visit, identify you as a unique user and track your web usage. Every time you visit a certain website, it will look for its cookie on your hard drive. It uses the information stored within the cookie to know your name, your shopping preferences and other information about you. Computer cookies can do everything from monitoring your visit throughout web sites to tracking how many times you've visited the site, how long you've been on the site, your log-in information at a particular page to remember important information about your computer.
The primary purposes of cookies is to recognize user and retain his/her personal preferences when he/she returns to a website. If you personalize web pages, register for products or services, cookies help to recall your specific information. This may be useful to simplify the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, etc
Why you should clean cookies
Every time you visit a website, it will look for its cookie on your hard drive. It uses the information stored within the cookie to know your name, your shopping preferences, etc.
Despite cookies are useful, they can also store such informattion as your name and password on protected login pages, preferences, account information and choices you have made on the site. Are there some sites you visit that you'd like to keep private?
And even if you clean browser history, cookies like a map will show your surfing preferences, habits, passwords, etc. Even if the cookies don't contain such information they clearly show that you visited the sites from which they came. So to protect your privacy, you should constatly clean cookies.
Also in one of their malevolent forms, cookies from one web site might track your visits to a different web site. For example, most of the ads that you see on web sites do not come from the site that you are viewing, but from sites that provide ads to many sites. When the advertising site displays the ad, it can send cookies on your computer. This lets the advertising company track your web usage over a range of sites and profile your browsing habits.
How to clean cookies
One way to maintain your privacy is to clean cookies manually. But in Internet Explorer even if you clean cookies manually, index.dat file stores Internet surfing information. This file keeps a total record of every website you visit. And this file is locked, so you can’t delete it by hand.
Clear All History makes it easy to protect your privacy and clean cookies information from your computer, including the locked cookies index.dat file.
Using Clear All History you can clean cookies in Internet Explorer (including index file), MSN Explorer, Maxthon (MyIE2), Firefox, Opera, Mozilla and Netscape
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To clean cookies in Internet Explorer 7.0:
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