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Posted by Michael J. Pelletier on December 19, 2004, 12:26 am
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Ron wrote:
> After upgrading my XP machine (motherboard, CPU, ram, etc.), I was
> forced to reinstall XP from scratch onto the same C drive. I then
> reinstalled Spybot S&D v1.3, but now it only detects MSIE cookies,
> nothing at all from Firefox, my main browser. A check within Firefox
> shows there to indeed be many cookies there.
>
> When I say "can't see" the cookies, I mean that when in Spybot Advanced
> mode I look under Settings / Ignore cookies, and only the IE cookies
> appear for me to check or uncheck. Before my upgrade and XP reinstall,
> Spybot was able to see cookies from both IE and Firefox.
>
> One thing that did happen after reinstalling XP is that under the
> Documents and Settings folder, three new folders were created: All
> Users.WINDOWS, Default User.WINDOWS, and a last one with my user name
> appended to my computer's name. The previous similar folders remain.
>>From what I can tell, both MSIE and Firefox are using the new folders
> for their settings, but it's hard to say for sure, or even whether this
> is related to the problem I'm having with Spybot.
>
> Is there a way to tell Spybot where to look for cookies, or to
> otherwise find all my cookies?
>
> Thanks.
Not sure why. But I would try reinstalling spybot. Maybe it looks for it
when it is being installed...
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