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    Question SpyBot v1.5.2 not finding cookies to clean up?

    Hello!

    Ever since I upgraded v1.5.1 to v1.5.2 via its updater (log says last cookies cleanup was on 2/7/2008), my SpyBot no longer find SeaMonkey v1.1.8 cookies (inside cookies.txt) to clean up on my home system (Windows XP Pro. SP2 with IE6.0 SP2 and all updates). On my other desktop machine, it finds and clean correctly.

    Any ideas? I checked the settings (e.g., excludes, filters, all sets) and they looked OK to me. And yes, SeaMonkey was closed (won't find and clean if it was running). I attached a zipped file of my SpyBot logs in case those logs help at all.

    Thank you in advance.
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    Spybot's immunization process prevents the storing of the same cookies as it scan detects

    Do you use Spybot's immunization facility? If so are there items being immunized related to either SeaMonkey or Firefox?

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    Quote Originally Posted by md usa spybot fan View Post
    Spybot's immunization process prevents the storing of the same cookies as it scan detects

    Do you use Spybot's immunization facility? If so are there items being immunized related to either SeaMonkey or Firefox?
    I think I did run it once during installation. Do I just use "Undo"? I don't use this feature.

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    If the immunization feature is blocking the tracking cookies from being stored on your system in the first place, I don't understand why you wouldn't want to discontinue using it in favor of removing them after the fact.

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    Quote Originally Posted by md usa spybot fan View Post
    If the immunization feature is blocking the tracking cookies from being stored on your system in the first place, I don't understand why you wouldn't want to discontinue using it in favor of removing them after the fact.
    I actually don't use immunization feature. I will try undoing and see if SpyBot will find and clean to bad cookies.

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    Super. If you could let us know the results of what you find, I would appreciate it.

    Also if you could let us know if the immunization items are listed as SeaMonkey or Firefox, I would appreciate that also. I personally don't use either SeaMonkey or Firefox. However, since both are Mozilla products and both appear to use the hostperm.1 file in the profile folder to set preferences about which sites you allow or prohibit cookies from, it is possible that by immunizing items for Firefox that they are also immunizing SeaMonkey.

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    Quote Originally Posted by md usa spybot fan View Post
    Super. If you could let us know the results of what you find, I would appreciate it.

    Also if you could let us know if the immunization items are listed as SeaMonkey or Firefox, I would appreciate that also. I personally don't use either SeaMonkey or Firefox. However, since both are Mozilla products and both appear to use the hostperm.1 file in the profile folder to set preferences about which sites you allow or prohibit cookies from, it is possible that by immunizing items for Firefox that they are also immunizing SeaMonkey.
    I forgot to select all and then "undo" earlier during my food run since the results came up no cookies found to be problematic to clean. So I will have to rescan again later when not using the computer.

    I attached a screen shot of my Immunize screen. It shows Firefox icon. I do have Firefox v2 installed from XeroBank Browser (uses Tor; http://xerobank.com/xB_browser.html ).
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    Quote Originally Posted by antdude View Post
    I forgot to select all and then "undo" earlier during my food run since the results came up no cookies found to be problematic to clean. So I will have to rescan again later when not using the computer.

    I attached a screen shot of my Immunize screen. It shows Firefox icon. I do have Firefox v2 installed from XeroBank Browser (uses Tor; http://xerobank.com/xB_browser.html ).
    Odd. Why did my attachment shrink and change to JPG? Here's the original: http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/9...eenshotit9.gif

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    Hmm, I reran it and still doesn't find bad cookies to scan and clean. Weird.

    I forgot to mention that the other machinedoesn't have Firefox installed.

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    No more ideas? I still have the problem even with today's updates.

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