Aha, this may explain some of the occasional glitches and netscape lockups I've been 
encountering once in a while.  Hmm, now I have a
better idea of where to start looking for the culprits.  THANKS!

Mark Polhamus wrote:

> It's put there by the Netscape browser to prevent against some sort of
> exploit - if the cookies file is run as Javascript it will get stuck on
> the first line and not execute code placed by some other cookie.  I
> don't know the details.  If you delete it Netscape puts it back.
>
> I expected to find the answer in a FAQ somewhere on the web, but no
> luck - only more people asking about it :(
>
> Best reference I could find (not good) was:
> http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/sf/www-mobile/2001-q2/0033.html.
>
> Does anyone out there know the whole story?
>
> On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Michael O'Donnell wrote:
> > I'm using Netscape 4.76 and I notice
> > the following in my cookies file:
> >
> > kcookie.netscape.com    FALSE   /       FALSE   4294967295      kcookie 
><script>location="."</script><script>do{}while(true)</script>
> >
> >
> > What is this about?
> >
> >
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