What are cookies and spyware? How are they different from each other?
How are they different from “trojans” and “malware”.When you go to a website for the first time you might get a pop-up message asking whether you will accept a “cookie” from that website. Cookies are just a bit of text on your computer are widely used and are legitimate tools used by many websites to track visitors. Cookies contains a small amount of information that identify you to particular websites. These cookies are used, for example, to personalize information or to help with purchasing stuff in an online store. Cookies cannot be used to “steal” information about you or your computer system. Plus, the only websites that can retrieve the information stored in a cookie are the websites that wrote the information in that particular cookie. This ensures your privacy by stopping anyone other than the site you are visiting from being able to read any cookies left by that site.However, if you are concerned about cookies you can delete any that are on your computer and/or you can set you
