Sunday, April 15, 2012
Hello friends,How are you?
In this post I am explaining about some concept of cookies and how to retrive or delete them with the help of some software tools.
So,Basically What is a Cookie?
A cookie, also known as an HTTP cookie, web cookie, or browser cookie, is used for an origin website to send state information to a user's browser and for the browser to return the state information to the origin site.
The state information can be used for authentication, identification of a user session, user's preferences, shopping cart contents, or anything else that can be accomplished through storing text data.
Cookies are not software. They cannot be programmed, cannot carry viruses, and cannot install malware on the host computer .However, they can be used by spyware to track user's browsing activities – a major privacy concern that prompted European and US law makers to take action. Cookies could also be stolen by hackers to gain access to a victim's web account.
>>>>>>Here I am using Software named CookieView to retrieve
cookies>>>>>>
Now,When you will run the software first time,you will see previously stored cookies in your computer as shown <remember this is my computer cookies>:
1 The Filename which is highlighted i.e FBQUONAJ.txt has following information as given below:
Cookie Details:
Domain: Last Visited Domain.
Created: Date of visit that domain.
Expires: Date of automatic deletion in future.
Lifetime: Time left.
As this is my computer browser cookie.Changes may takes place from computer to computer.
Uses:
Easily track your children computer activities when you are not present at home.
Gives a platform to track fraud activities without your presence.
Easy way to access and delete cookies stored in computer.
