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Tracking cookies? -
July 5th 2009, 07:04 PM
I've set it so that my computer is scanned everyday at a set time and most of the time there is things called tracking cookies which are labelled as "potentially dangerous" or something.
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Re: Tracking cookies? -
July 5th 2009, 07:10 PM
Tracking cookies are generally harmless, though it can't hurt to remove them anyway. See here for info about what they are and their purpose: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie
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Re: Tracking cookies? -
July 5th 2009, 07:15 PM
It gives me the option to heal the dangerous ones which I do but there are others that I can't and I guess are just stored in the virus vault or whatever it's called. Thanks for the replies though. :]
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Re: Tracking cookies? -
July 5th 2009, 08:06 PM
Tracking cookies are generally the cookies used by ad-serving companies so that they can track what they've already shown you and what to show you next.
I don't know why only ad-serving company cookies are detected by anti-virus applications, but they're harmless and safe to remove. Clearing cookies in your browser has the same effect.  |
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