Tracking cookies?

tomseal6 · Apr 5, 2008

Guys, My system has never ran so smooth before since I formatted the drive from smitfraud a few weeks ago. Since then, I am running AVG, Symantec, Symantec Firewall, Super anti-spyware, and AD-aware from lavasoft. I do a scan about twice a week with those 4 softwares.

When I run the Ad-aware, I get alot of tracking cookies that come up in a san. What are they and why does my computer seem to run faster when they are cleared?

DavidGP · Apr 6, 2008

Hi

If you are running AVG antivirus and Symantec antivirus, do please remove one of them as two AVs running at once can cause your PC to run slower than it could as the two scanners are scanning the same files.

Sadly Ad-Aware has too much emphasis on tracking cookies, these are harmless and are needed to allow you to surf the web, logon to forums and shopping sites etc.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie

As for speedier PC once these are removed, this may just be a placebo effect after running some cleanup tools etc, cookies are small files and even if you have 1000s of them in saved in your temp folder they wouldnt slow a pc down, may have the odd website not load correctly if you have a corrupted cookie saved, but clearing the cookie and internet temps would clear that up.

A good read >> How to Protect yourself from malware!

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