Conclusion: Cookie histories are a lot more valuable than we give them credit for. Once Google, Microsoft and Yahoo peruse 2.6 quadrillion cookies (Jupiter Research's figures in a Red Herring story).

Clearing SFGate-related browser cookies and cached files (and then restarting your broswer) can sometimes take care of display or login problems with SFGate. Here's how to do that.

1 Cookies are small text files used by websites to store information about you – but you can block them from being created, and delete them at any time Credit: Alamy What is a cookie?

Cookies get stored on your computer when you use a web browser. The cookie file gets read by the server on the other end of the connection.

Hackers are creating backdoor accounts and cookie files on WordPress sites running OneTone Attacks began earlier this month after WordPress theme developer did not release a patch for a trivial bug.

All of them have 'path=/' BTW.<BR><BR>In any case, my question actually is about the multiple cookie files from a single site that IE is creating.

Cookies, the small data files placed on an Internet user's computer when visiting websites, are primarily used to identify visitors for the purpose of customizing content such as advertising.

1 Cookies are small text files used by websites to store information about you – but you can block them from being created, and delete them at any time Credit: Alamy What is a cookie?