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Posted by Scherbina Vladimir on February 22, 2006, 11:30 am
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Cookies does not harm your pc. It's just some files that contains info that
will be sent to a web server while you're browsing in the web.
Why are cookies seems to do the dirty job ? Because they can be set by
adwares, and you can (or antivirus) identify by cookie that you have
installed adware on a system.
Why adwares set cookies ? Because in most cases they show popups to some
advertising webservers and those servers need to identify clients - in 99 %
cases this is done using cookies.
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Vladimir
> Hi All,
>
> I'm running (a purchased copy of) SpyWare Doctor set to check cookies
> automatically every 30 minutes. It reports and quarantines anywhere from
> a few to a dozen cookies every period.
>
> But that means the enemy cookies can do there dirty work for up to a half
> hour before being zapped. I like to disable them almost as soon as they
> are installed (or impede their installation if I could.)
>
> Running SpyWare Doctor every minute seems like it will bring my system to
> it's knees, making it useful only for keeping the office warm in the
> winter :-)
>
> I'd like to write a light-weight process like a Ruby or WSH script to be
> run every minute to search-and-destroy known culprits in the cookies
> folder. The rely on Spyware Doctor to ferret out any new ones every
> half-hour. Does that seem realistic?
> --
> Thanks in Advance,
> Richard
>
>
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