should cookies be deleted by Spybot 1.4 if not excluded?
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Hello, I love all the tunables in the new 1.4 release. Have hit an odd thing however. I used the Ignore Cookies setting to check Cookies I want to keep. Then I ran a scan. I expected all the cookies that were in the list that were NOT selected would be listed as bad so I could okay Deleting them.
This did not happen. No cookies were identified as candidates for deletion, and when I went back to Ignore Cookies, all the settings were as I wished them to be, and all the cookies I wanted gone were still unchecked, ie. waiting to be scanned and deleted.
I am assuming the cookies I don't want, that are UNchecked, do exist on my system, right? Or else why would 1.4 identify them if they are not resident?
So how do I delete them without using another product like Ashampoo? :confused:
thanx for the help, dudes and dudettes. MidniteSkulker
Unexpected benefits but still not resolved
Thank you Zenobia. I did as you said, and reran Spybot 1.4. Of course many new results this time. Getting Usage Tracks now means I am in over my head. I could tell what SOME things were for, and cautiously left many, and purged 91, such as Backup text files and History tracking for Media Player and Real Player, which I don't need and no one else needs either !! LOL.
But the cookie situation is unresolved. It showed this time that there were cookies found but did not itemize them as in your previous release levels. After 'Cookies' in the results page, there was a [52] which I assumed meant 52 candidates for deletion. But I didn't purge them since I didn't know if I wanted to keep some, such as Amazon order info, etc. So this is not the solution I seek.
I also ran Ashampoo anti-spyware and got a list of 22 cookies that I don't want, but I didn't use that utility to scrub them. I wanted Spybot to find them and scrub them.
So I need further direction. I want itemized Cookies to pick and choose to kill. I have read previous posts on this forum on this topic [couldn't find hardly anything] and I did read your Tutorial on cookies, and understand you want us to manage them thru IE6 Tools etc. That being said, what else can we do? I LOVE THAT you give me an itemized list in the IGNORE COOKIES to pick and choose which ones for future termination. I just haven't found how to purge the ones I didn't exclude from the purging :scratch:
thanks to any Advisors or Users who can guide me.
Midniteskulker