Virus?

[Merlyn]

Well that helped, some. Thanks Bud. Would help more knowing where the term 'cookie' came from.

[Bud]

Chryss...you tricked me! I'll get you for this one way or the other in the future...heh

[Merlyn]

Originally Posted by Bud

Chryss...you tricked me! I'll get you for this one way or the other in the future...heh

No trick intended, do you know where the term 'cookie' used in PC terminology came from and/or why ? That's all it would take to explain it to me.

[Bud]

The term "cookie" was derived from "magic cookie", which is the packet of data a program receives and sends again unchanged. Magic cookies were already used in computing when computer programmer Lou Montulli had the idea of using them in Web communications in June 1994. At the time, he was an employee of Netscape Communications, which was developing an e-commerce application for a customer.
A magic cookie or just cookie for short, is a token or short packet of data passed between communicating programs, where the data is typically not meaningful to the recipient program. The contents are opaque and not usually interpreted until the recipient passes the cookie data back to the sender or perhaps another program at a later time. The cookie is often used like a ticket — to identify a particular event or transaction.
The name "cookie" comes from a comparison to an unopened fortune cookie, because of the hidden information inside.

[Becca]

I've been getting the same notification of a virus when I try accessing our forum from work. I haven't had the problem until recently, so has something changed? Because I know nothing has been changed with my anti-virus program at work. I use a mac at home so I don't get any of these notifications at home.