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in a secure non buggy browser, cookies are restricted so that a certain web site can only look at the cookies it creates. Now then, MANY complex banner sites like double click heavily use cookies to a) keep track of what banners you have seen so far, and b) what doubeclick affiliated site you have been visiting (it wont know what sites who dont sign up to doubleclick you are viewing) for statistics. Many ad sites use cookies as an easy form of anonymouse statistic gathering.
There is simply no way these sites can view your other cookies. Cookies are a well accepted and very usefull practice that has been around since shortly after GUI web browsers.
You can allways disable cookies if you are really scared, but the majority of saved password and board setting features require their use. Infact most board systems require cookies if you wish to simply stay logged in while browsing the boards.
Thankfully I havnt come accross any of these crappy anti viruse programs.
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