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Arastar

Is there any real reason to have cookies enabled? Everytime I do an Adaware sweep it always finds tracking cookies so I just assume shut them off so that they won't end up in my system.

Thoughts?

Zimbo

Hey there Arastar

Here is some brief words I have taken out of a couple of tutorials on the web about cookies, I have placed the links below incase you want to read further.

What is a cookie?

Most web sites store information in a small text file, called a Cookie, on your hard disk. Cookies typically contain information about you and your preferences for the web site you are visiting, so that the site can customise the web pages you see the next time you visit or go back to a previously visited part of the site.
A cookie can only store information you provide during your visit, based on the choices you make. A site cannot capture your email address unless you send it to the site, in a web form, for example. Allowing a web site to create a cookie does not give the site access to the rest of your computer, and only the site that created the cookie can read it. Credit card information is never stored in cookies.

For example, cookies are used to personalize Web search engines, to allow users to participate in WWW-wide contests (but only once!), and to store shopping lists of items a user has selected while browsing through a virtual shopping mall.

So to answer your question I would say, YES keep your cookies enabled, if you don't have your cookies enabled you will be unable to browse certain websites.

Hope this helps, I am sure other people will have their opinions.

joe5

Yup , you need them to be able to surf normally. But tracking cookies are nothing to really worry about , so it isn't a real problem.

You could exclude them from detection by ad aware and just leave them. It would be a good idea to every now and then to delete them manually or with an app like Ccleaner though.

Arastar

Thanks for the input!

joe5

Just ask if you have more questions.

I'll mark this one as Awnsered.