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OH NOES MY COMPUTER HAS COOKIE TRACKERS D:
Moriarty:
--- Quote from: Miga on July 02, 2009, 02:59:58 PM ---What antivirus are you using?
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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:
--- Quote from: Wedge on July 02, 2009, 03:35:18 PM ---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.
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Oh thank god. Do I just delete the files or something?
Azimuth:
yes.
Moriarty:
--- Quote from: Azimuth on July 02, 2009, 03:38:49 PM ---yes.
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