Windows Control Panel - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer
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This may be basic but, can cookies damage your system in anyway? It's one of those things that a lot of sites require you to accept, and an average user just accepts them.
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@mary said in Windows Control Panel - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer:
This may be basic but, can cookies damage your system in anyway? It's one of those things that a lot of sites require you to accept, and an average user just accepts them.
Today? Not knowingly. In the past there were browser bugs that let them, yes.
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@mary said in Windows Control Panel - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer:
This may be basic but, can cookies damage your system in anyway? It's one of those things that a lot of sites require you to accept, and an average user just accepts them.
So the cookie itself is just a text file. A tiny one. That's it. So the cookie itself does nothing.
The issues are if the cookie has something in the text and a browser reads it and does something it shouldn't because of it. But realistically, that's not going to happen.
The main concerns around cookies are that they help people to track you, but you need to be tracked. We've been conditioned to thinking that being tracked is a bad thing, but cookies are what lets us track you from post to post here in RoIT for example.
