A cookie is a little round or square thing - usually made with flour, sugar, eggs and stuff. They're really good. I used to gorge on them until I got a little chunky (no pun intended!). They will make you chunky too; if you eat too many of them. There are chocolate chip cookies (my favorite), oatmeal cookies (the health food of cookies) - Oh wait! You meant a computer "cookie". Sorry!
A cookie, in computer terms, is a small text (txt) file that a web page on another machine writes to your personal machine's disk to store various bits of information. Cookies have earned a undeservedly bad reputation. Cookies cannot cause your computer harm because they are nothing but text files. Most cookies are used by sites to keep count of "unique" visitors, to provide services to visitors, to save user settings, etc. Normally, a cookie can only be read by the site that placed it on your computer. Cookies are never spyware because the term "ware" indicates a program.
There are such things as "tracking cookies" where sites working together track your movement from one of their sites to another, but no cookie can track your movements across the Internet. Cookies, unlike spyware, can be quickly and easily deleted by clicking Tools / Internet Options on the Internet Explorer toolbar and clicking the "Delete Cookies" button. And use ATF Cleaner by Atribune.
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