Avast spam page on firefox. YES IT IS SPAM.

[AdrianH]

It is not a troll. It is a firmly held conviction which I have followed for years with no untoward consequences, and is also the recommended course at another security forum I frequent. I have always held the belief that there is a ridiculous degree of paranoia circulating the 'net over the perceived evils of site cookies.

Posts you don't agree with are not automatically trolls.

Exactly right Paul.

Known and proven fact, deleting safe website cookies causes MORE problems than than leaving them enabled.

Like 90% of the internet these days, it is all myths generated by the utterly clueless.

http://www.thiefware.com/cookies.spyware.shtml

http://lifehacker.com/5461114/fact-and-fiction-the-truth-about-browser-cookies

http://www.websitecookies.com/myths-facts-website-cookies/

Snake oil vendors have to find ways to get the gullible to download more scanners and blockers, so that they can spend 23 hours a day scanning their systems for imagined problems.

I wonder what percentage of computers actually do any real or productive work each day.

[Paul_D]

Thankyou AdrianH for those interesting and informative links.