JB,
I'm not Skuzzy (I'm much better looking), but maybe I can help.
A cookie is a small piece of text saved on your computer's hard drive by the browser at the request of a Web page. If you agree to let the browser save this information on your machine, when you visit the Web page again, the site can read the saved information and use it.
Not all cookies are bad. For instance, most places you buy things from use a cookie to track your order as you place it, this board uses a cookie to track if you're logged in, etc and there are other legitimate reasons for cookies. They aren't bad.
But there are some that track just about every move on the internet via a slew of web sites using the same cookie and many times shoot you to unwanted web sites and in conjunction with viruses can track what you type on your keyboard. THOSE you don't want.
Since I don't do any "unsafe" surfing, there's really no need for it, but I use Ad-Aware weekly to clean out the borderline ones. And monthly, I simply delete all cookies from my system. This can be a pain. You see when I do that, I need to log back in to this board and many other places I frequent.
Hope that helps.
