Read every concern ever expressed on cookies and you'll have heard that they can put a virus on your PC. Some people think that Web sites can use cookies to get your e-mail address, others believe that cookies might be used to track every single site you visit on the Internet. Worst of all, a major newspaper once wrote that “cookies are little programs planted by a remote Web site on your PC, which then feedback personal information without your knowledge”.
It's no wonder people are scared, but they shouldn't be - this is all nonsense, there are concerns about cookies, but they're not the ones that appear in the scare ... [more]