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But cleanup programs such as the three evaluated here can zap even persistent cookies and thwart companies' efforts to track you on the Net. Unlike the Netscape 6 browser, Microsoft's Internet Explorer 5.5 doesn't allow you to easily view information about stored cookies and delete them. But Pierre-Marie Devigne's Cookies Manager 1.1 freeware delivers some of this functionality to Internet Explorer in a compact 19KB download. Clicking on arrow buttons slides a cookie from one list to another. Distinguishing the good cookies from the bad can be tricky, however.