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What are cookies?
An HTTP cookie is a packet of information sent by a server to a World Wide Web browser and then sent back by the browser each time it accesses that server. HTTP cookies are used for user authentication, user tracing, and maintaining user-specific information (preferences, electronic shopping cart, etc.) A file used by the Internet Explorer browser to store a cookie.
Cookies have been of concern for Internet privacy, since they can be used for tracing the browsing of a user. As a result, they have been subject to legislation in various countries such as the United States, as well as the European Union. Cookies have also been criticized because the identification of users they provide is not always accurate and because they can be used for network attacks.
On the other hand, cookies have also been subject to a number of misconceptions, mostly based on the wrong claim that they are programs, while they in fact are simple pieces of data, and are therefore unable to perform any operation by themselves. In particular, many Internet users have been reported to incorrectly consider cookies as a form of spyware or viruses, which are able to read or erase a users' hard disk (a misconception perhaps complicated by the detection of cookies from certain sites by anti-spyware programs). Most modern browsers allow users to decide whether to accept cookies, but rejection makes several Web sites unusable. For example, users' preferences or shopping baskets implemented using cookies do not work if cookies are rejected. Some alternatives to cookies exist, but have their own drawbacks.
Suggested cookie settings for My Pc Center use.
To maximize the user of our site, we recommend the following settings for Internet Explorer 6. If you are using an older version of Internet Explorer, we suggest that you upgrade because the cookie settings in Internet Explorer 6 provide a lot more control than any of their earlier versions.
For Internet Explorer 6:
Go to Tools
Internet options
Privacy tab
then click on the Advanced button.
Select the following options:
Always allow session cookies
First-party cookies: Accept
Override automatic cookie handling
Third-party cookies: Block
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