Safari 2.0.3: curious cookie - bbc.co.uk

this cookie shows up in Safari pretty much when I go to any new pages, once I land on my default page.
I suspect there must be some spyware installed somewhere on my machine thta plants this cookie.
Very unnerving.
Anyone familiar with this?
And any tip to locate the offending malware?
thanks

Hello Paul, et al
I thought this to be an interesting topic & this article seems to fit.
There is a lot of hits when googling. "BBC & cookies on mac"
Cookies & Pies
"Whereas people have heard about cookies, they are much less familiar with Persistent Identification Elements. So what are they?
Built into Macromedia Flash multimedia player ......."
hello JP!! :~)
regards to you all
Eme
was edited by: Eme p.s I delete all MSN related cookies after a log out

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