Spyware most likely uses which of the following types of cookies?

Spyware most likely uses which of the following types of cookies?

• Poisonous
• Tracking
• Transport
• Session 

EXPLANATION

Cookies are small amounts of data sent from a website to a computer. In Windows, most cookies are stored as text files in the logged-on user’s Temporary Internet Files folder. Websites use the encoded information in cookies to “remember” information such as website visits, previous authentication attempts and the status of current logins. Some websites use cookies to compile browsing history records, and it’s also possible for hackers to impersonate someone’s login session by stealing his or her cookies. Therefore, cleaning cookies off your business computers on a regular basis is a good security practice.

1.Click on the “Start” button and select “Control Panel.”

2.Click on “Internet Options" to bring up the Internet Properties dialog box.
3.Click the “Delete” button under Browsing History on the General tab.

4.Check the “Cookies” box, and uncheck everything else.

5.Click “Delete.”

Warnings

• Some cookies in your Temporary Internet Files folder are just pointers to their actual location in C:\Windows\Cookies and may not clear out when you empty out the folder in Internet Options. But if you delete them manually, both the pointer and the actual file will be removed.
• Your Temporary Internet Files folder is in the following location on a Windows 7 system (substitute “username” for your own account user name):
• C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files
• This is a hidden folder that you can make visible in Windows Explorer by clicking “Tools,” then “Folder Options,” and then “Show hidden files, folders, and drives” from the View tab.
• Delete any files beginning with “cookie:”.