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Cookies on my comp
ok well i was doing a scan..and most of the files infected came from the cookies...how do i clean them and if i clean them...does it remove the infections? cause like every site i visited had an infection .... thank u :)
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Hi there,
The odds are that you are running LavaSoft's AdAware, which reports all tracking cookies as problems.
If you are running something else, it would be helpful to say what spy ware scanner you were using when you got these results.
Before I forget, I would like to agree with the person below that SpyBot Search and Destroy, is a great spyware program. You should get it, and use it alongside whatever else you use now for removing spyware from your computer.
In whatever program you use, there may be a way to disable scanning of cookies altogether. I just ignore them, but if that bothers you, you could try to stop it from scanning cookies at all.
Cookies do NOT contain viruses. They are just little bits of text that the website you are visiting uses for things. Some sites use it to track what pages you go to, some sites, like ours, use it so you can stay logged in without having to put your username and password in on every single page.
Someone below said to delete all your cookies... That is bad advice. Any site where you logged in and said "remember me" or "keep me logged in" will no longer know who you are until you log in again. When you log in again, it will set the cookie again to help you stay logged in, so what is the point of deleting them?
For whatever this is worth: I have been in computers for over 20 years, and I don't delete all cookies. EVER.
To recap: Cookies aren't dangerous, as a rule.
They can be used to track you from one site to another, but that isn't what most sites use them for.
Cookies are NOT viruses.
If you need anything else, let me know.
DN.
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tools-internet options-delets cookies.
that gets rid of them all.
or after the scan, when it finds the infected cookie,
dooe it have the option to 'quarentine' the cookie?
if so click that
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ok, if your scan is telling you that every cookie is infected it means one of two things
1. you have a crappy scanner, it could be a trial version trying to scam you into buying it
2. you have some sort of virus that really has infected all of your cookies.
cookies by themselves arent dangerous, and shouldnt cause an alarm on a regular scanner. if you arent already, you should be using spybot.
if you are, and thats whats telling you about your cookies, then you most likely have a virus.
the scanner you are using should have a clean/delete option, if not, then thats more evidence for possibility #1. go to download.com and you can find a nice antivirus.
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Cookies aren't much of a threat. Don't worry about them. They're tiny bits of text, and it can show advertisers which sites you go to, but it doesn't allow them to steal your personal info or ruin your computer. Every time to select "remember me" on a login form, it's saving a cookies. Th banner ads at advicenators probably leave a tracking cookie. If you want to delete them(which will log you out of every site), go to tools>internet options. If you use IE7, click delete on the general tab. If you use an earlier version, click "delete cookies". For firefox, go to tools>clear private data, make sure cookies are selected, and click "delete private data".
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