Cookies are small files that are placed on your hard drive. They hold the information about date and time you have visited web sites and can contain other information that websites use to prepare and serve you customized pages. Cookies are often used by websites for automatic logins. Internet users often wants to delete cookies because by looking at cookies one can easily see what websites were visited, where did you logged in and more than that. To clear cookies is easy, just keep in mind that they will be reproduced when you visit the website that placed them on your computer. So, you should often clear cookies. You can use free Clear History software to clear all cookies from your computer as well. Or, for more power in protecting your privacy on internet you can resort to some powerful commercial package, amongst the best are Privacy Eraser Pro, Shadow Professional and CyberScrub Privacy Suite.
In Internet Explorer:
- Go to the Tools menu
- Select Internet Options
- Go to General tab (first one)
- Click on Delete Cookies and confirm.
In Firefox:
- Go to the Tools menu
- Select Clear Private Data
- Make sure Cookies is checked. Uncheck others as you wish.
- Click on Clear Private Data Now and your cache is cleared.