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Posted by Annie Woughman on July 27, 2008, 1:22 pm
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> Annie Woughman wrote:
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>> "Victek" wrote:
>>>> When installing AVG 8.0.138, (minus the toolbar and email scanning)
>>>> it arbitrarilly uninstalls the AVG Anti-spyware, with the pretence
>>>> that AVG 8 includes an anti-spyware function. It might have it,
>>>> but it doesn't work on the free version. I found that out by
>>>> checking the history. All scans showed no spyware found and none
>>>> removed. I have since re-installed AVG anti-spyware 7.51.43 and
>>>> found and removed the usual spyware. Both programs work
>>>> great--they just have to be updated and run separately.
>>>>
>>> What is the "usual spyware" is AVG AS 7.51.43 finding that AVG 8.0
>>> does not?
>>
>> Mostly tracking cookies: Atdmt, Casalemedia, Coremetrics,
>> Doubleclick, Hitbox, Mediaplex, Realmedia, Tribalfusion, etc.
>> Cookies like this show up on every daily scan, but they weren't with
>> just AVG 8--it kept reporting none found and none removed. After
>> several days of running daily scans of AVG alone, I installed AVG
>> Anti-spyware and had 36 tracking cookies (this was 30 minutes after
>> the AVG Anti-virus had finished scanning.)
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> Ah, as I thought when reading your original post. Cookies. Cookies
> aren't malicious spyware, they are just annoying. Why not set your
> browser to simply ignore them in the first place?
My browser is set to block third-party cookies that do no have a compact
privacy policy, etc. but if I move it up a notch, then I am not able to
properly access my banking information or credit card sites.
> Use a HOSTS file as well.
I don't know how to do that. Can you explain it to me? Would it get around
the cookie problem at banking sites with the browser set to high?
> --
> -bts
> -Friends don't let friends drive Windows
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