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Posted 07 July 2009 - 09:53 AM

First of all I'm kind of new to the site so try to bear with me,now for the questions


What are tracking cookies? What do they do? should I delete them?


I recently ran a quick scan in my new laptop and it showed that I had a
security problem AKA tracking cookie, the security risk is relatively
low so I haven't takan action as of yet, any suggestion on whatI
should do with this type of files?
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Posted 07 July 2009 - 10:51 AM

See if this helps:

http://en.wikipedia....iki/HTTP_cookie

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=c77gopt_KB8
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Posted 07 July 2009 - 04:31 PM

:D Hi :

I make it a point to "Delete" "Tracking/Adware" cookies as soon as I am aware of them .

IF your computer has a Win XP Operating System, you should consider using a FREE

Cookie "Manager", such as "CookieWall" .
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Posted 10 July 2009 - 06:30 PM

I guess I should of mentioned I'm running Win Vista, will CookieWall work with it?
If not what other programs would be reccomended to use?
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Posted 11 July 2009 - 03:31 PM

:D Hi :
I have NOT checked the 2 Cookiewall Sites in quite some time and when I checked the

One at www.spychecker.com/program/cookiewall.html discovered it had been

"Updated" on 3/20/09 to ver 1.02 ( I have ver 1.01 ) . The Author's Site at

[http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/cookie.htm] says ver 1.02 is

compatible with Vista . For "Details" of the program, start with the Info at

[http://www.spychecker.com/screenshots/cookiewall.htm] . To minimize potential

problems with installing this program, I recommend you read the "FAQs" on the Author's

Site at [http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/faq.htm] PRIOR to downloading .
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