OH NOES MY COMPUTER HAS COOKIE TRACKERS D:

[Moriarty]

I was just scanning my computer, and I found like 10 cookie trackers!
And I thought I was safe without anti virus for 2 months...

[Ad Bot]

[Sandvich]

What is it exactly?

[zackin5]

What is it exactly?

Spyware

[Moriarty]

What is it exactly?

I'm not sure, but nothings happened to any of my accounts on anything.
But it copies all your info and stuff at the time of stealing it, and then they decode it into words and crap.
I'm going to see what I can do to take it off if the antivirus program lets me.
Theres 15 of them D:

[Miga]

What antivirus are you using?

[Moriarty]

What antivirus are you using?

AVG anti virus. I have nothing but 15 cookie trackers, and it isnt a pop up. Its real D:
Its been scanning for half an hour, its scanned over 125000 files and no viruses. Thats good I guess.
I'll copy all of them for you.
"C:\Documents and Settings\myfullnamehere\Cookies\myfullnamehere @atdmt[1].txt:\atdmt.com.7247c262";"Found Tracking cookie.Atdmt"
x3
"C:\Documents and Settings\myfullnamehere\Cookies\myfullnamehere @bs.serving-sys[2].txt:\bs.serving-sys.com.5bf1f00f";"Found Tracking cookie.Serving-sys"
x8 or something


"C:\Documents and Settings\myfullnamehere\Cookies\myfullnamehere @msnportal.112.2o7[1].txt:\msnportal.112.2o7.net.7225be6f";"Found Tracking cookie.2o7"
x3

"C:\Documents and Settings\myfullnamehere\Cookies\myfullnamehere @questionmarket[1].txt:\questionmarket.com.4dd5e426";"Found Tracking cookie.Questionmarket"
x3

[Wedge]

They are basically harmless, just delete them.

Just as an example, the atdmt cookie is part of a service owned by Microsoft. I'm not entirely sure what it does, my best guess is that it logs the number of times you've seen a particular ad so that it doesn't keep showing you the same ad. I don't know every site that uses atdmt, but MSNBC does, so that's one place you could have picked it up.

[Moriarty]

They are basically harmless, just delete them.

Just as an example, the atdmt cookie is part of a service owned by Microsoft. I'm not entirely sure what it does, my best guess is that it logs the number of times you've seen a particular ad so that it doesn't keep showing you the same ad. I don't know every site that uses atdmt, but MSNBC does, so that's one place you could have picked it up.

Oh thank god. Do I just delete the files or something?

[Azimuth]

yes.

[Moriarty]

yes.

k

[tails]

Tracking cookies are pretty common, No big deal.

[General Nick]

All they do is just look at webpages you've been on.

Even so they're harmless.

[Saxophone]

COOKIES??

Arn't some cookies useful? As in, they store information like passwords and stuff.

So you don't need to log in the next time you go to that site.

[Chippy]

 

[Niblic]

While its scanning your crap, go to a research-site and leave it on for the rest of the night.