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Question
I enjoyed your show on Jan. 30. While you talked about downloads that can detect and delete spyware, you didn't mention
what should a person do about cookies. Should they be deleted too? If cookies are important (i.e. from my ISP or AOL),
will they not just be resent and re-established?
--Steve, North Oaks, Minnesota
Answer
A "Tech Talk" staff member responded:
Steve —
Thanks for your interest in Tech Talk.
You don't ever have to delete your cookies if you don't want to. Cookies are kinda like name tags,
they only identify who you are while you're at the event you're attending (or the website or service
that the cookie is for). They don't actively do anything while they are residing on your computer. If
you are having goofy things happening on a web page like getting errors after logging in
or another user of the computer's name instead of yours appearing, then you can try deleting your
cookies, clearing your internet cache, and possible restarting your computer. Then try revisiting
the page.
I hope this answers your question. Thanks again for watching our program.
— The Tech Talk Staff
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