Cookies

castle96

are these a bad thing ? What do they do ?

How do I clean/get rid of (step by step please)

HP/Vista

thanks

alanwjones

What is a cookie.-
The main purpose of cookies is to identify users and possibly prepare customized Web pages for them. When you enter a Web site using cookies, you may be asked to fill out a form providing such information as your name and interests. This information is packaged into a cookie and sent to your Web browser which stores it for later use. The next time you go to the same your browser will send the cookie to the Web server. The server can use this information to present you with custom Web pages. So, for example, instead of seeing just a generic welcome page you might see a welcome page with your name on it.

Clean cookies

Control panel. - Internet Options - General - Browsing History - Delete -
Delete Cookies

Or in Tools - Internet Options - General - Browsing
History - Delete - Delete Cookies

busenbust

http://www.ccleaner.com/ is very effective at cleaning out all cookies. They are not necessarily all harmful by themselves. Is there a particular cookie that is troubling you? Firefox, and I believe IE, allow very precise control over specific cookies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie

castle96

thanks

massive Vista site shows from your link

which part deals with deleting cookies ??

penrhyn

Massive Vista site?????

Ccleaner as linked to above.

If your browser is being misdirected then you may have problems, do a Virus/Spyware scan.

busenbust

^That's what I was confused by.

nomoneytoday

Some cookies are good, for example the one here to keep your user name logged in and others are bad as they circumvent tin helmets to distribute data to all and sundry

busenbust

Don't mention Google

aliEnRIK

castle96 wrote: »

thanks

massive Vista site shows from your link

which part deals with deleting cookies ??

Sounds to me like your machines infected

Download MALWAREBYTES (Make sure you click 'DOWNLOAD LATEST VERSION')
http://www.filehippo.com/download_malwarebytes_anti_malware/
Open malwarebytes and goto UPDATE and click 'check for updates'. After its updated goto SCANNER and click PERFORM FULL SCAN then click SCAN
Post the log COMPLETE here AFTER youve deleted everything it finds


reboot

Download HIJACK THIS (Make sure you click 'DOWNLOAD LATEST VERSION')
http://www.filehippo.com/download_hijackthis/
Click DO A SCAN AND SAVE A LOGFILE (Takes seconds) then post the log so we can see whats running
(do NOT do anything else with Hijack but scan and post the FULL log)

Saving_spree

You can delete the cookies using the tool in the menu bar then
internet option-history-delete-cookies