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Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on July 27, 2008, 6:10 pm
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Annie Woughman wrote:
> "Beauregard T. Shagnasty" wrote:
>> Annie Woughman wrote:
>>> 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.)
>>
>> 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.
Most modern browsers allow you do block by domain. If you are using
Internet Explorer, you might want to look into a modern browser. Firefox
and Opera are good choices.
>> 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?
This should help:
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
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