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ALSO CALLED: Cookie Files, Transient Cookies, and Session Cookies
DEFINITION: A cookie is information that a Web site puts on your hard disk so that it can remember something about you at a later time. (More technically, it is information for future use that is stored by the server on the client side of a client/server  … 
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Removing Internet Anonymity Barriers with IP Intelligence
sponsored by Digital Element
WHITE PAPER: NetAcuity IP Intelligence technology provides an excellent way to non-invasively gather new intelligence about the online universe, and Digital Element delivers the de facto standard in IP Intelligence.
Posted: 31 Jan 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007
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Spyware: Counterintelligence
sponsored by Symantec Corporation
WEBCAST: Learn how to focus on proactively protecting your enterprise from spyware, bots and increasing security risks, as well as uncovering the hidden costs associated with allowing spyware to run rampant in IT organizations.
Posted: 13 Sep 2005 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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COOKIES DEFINITION (continued): …  communication.) Typically, a cookie records your preferences when using a particular site. Using the Web's Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), each request for a Web page is independent of all other requests. For this reason, the Web page server has no memory of what pages it has sent to a user previously or anything about your previous visits. A cookie is a mechanism that allows the server to store its own information about a user on the user's own computer. You can … 
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