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YOUR BROWSER MUST HAVE COOKIES ENABLED
IN ORDER FOR THE PAYPAL SHOPPING CART
TO WORK PROPERLY.
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Cookies: What they are and how they
work.
A cookie is a file on a web user's hard
drive (it's kept in one of the subdirectories
under the browser file directory). This
is useful for having your browser remember
some specific information which the web
server can later retrieve.
For example, when you browse through an
"online shopping mall" and add
items to your "shopping cart"
as you browse, a list of the items you've
picked up is stored by your browser so
that you can pay for all of the items
at once when you're finished shopping.
It's much more efficient for each browser
to keep track of information like this
than to expect the web server to have
to remember who bought what, especially
if there are thousands of people using
it the web server at a time.
A cookie file is NOT a secret way for
a web server to find out everything about
you and what you have on your hard drive.
The ONLY way that any private information
could be in your cookie file would be
if you personally gave that information
to a web server in the first place and
it decided to put that information into
your cookie file for some reason. Also,
each cookie is marked with information
about what web server it's for; e.g. Internet
Explorer does not send any cookies to
any web server they're not for.
There is absolutely no way for a web server
to get access to any private information
about you or your system through cookies.
Also, there is no possible way that a
virus could be spread through the use
of cookies.
