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[Amethyst]

I have Immunizer on, updated it after installing Spybot updates today. I am using Firefox.

Since running Immunizer, I have done full scans every day at the end of the day, and no tracking cookies have been found. I ran a scan just now and it said no problems were found.

I'm still learning about Spybot and I went to have a look at the 'ignore cookies' feature. I don't really want to delete any cookies (unless they are tracking cookies, of course), and I don't have any on the list set to 'ignore'. I see that some of the cookies listed in Firefox are written in red. What does that mean? And if they are a problem, why wouldn't Spybot find them on a scan?

[Tom.K]

I see that some of the cookies listed in Firefox are written in red. What does that mean? And if they are a problem, why wouldn't Spybot find them on a scan?

The cookies written in red are tracking cookies. Spybot ignores scanning checked cookies in "Ignore Cookies" feature. If you want to scan all cookies, go to "Ignore Cookies" feature and uncheck all cookies. Then Spybot can scan those cookies.

[drragostea]

Are you using the latest version of Spybot? (1.5.2.20).

Actually there is a easier way. Go to ADVANCED MODE under MODE. Go to the SETTINGS tab and click on "File Sets". When you install Spybot 1.5.2, the USER TRACKAGE is disabled by default.

Click on "User Tracking" and "tracks.uti".

Spybot will now detect cookies in future scans.

In my opinion, tracking cookies are not considered malicious. They simply offer to remember passwords, while some track "web browsing" history. I simply clear all the cache and cookies after each browser session.

--Eric.

[Amethyst]

drragostea,

Thanks for your reply.

I do have the latest version of spybot.

None of the cookies on the ignore cookies list are checked, nor have they ever been.
I still have a total of 6 items there on that ignore cookies list, unchecked and in red. One is an atdmt tracking cookie, the other 5 are advertising.com with various extensions.

I don't want to disable all usage tracks. I would just like spybot to show me those tracking cookies when it scans the way it used to (before I turned on Immunizer) and thus give me the option of deleting them. Now, whenever I scan, it always tells me no problems are detected.

I'll try undoing the immunizer and see if it picks up the tracking cookies.

I don't know, just grabbing at straws at this point. It's almost like Spybot is simply not scanning for cookies anymore. In any case, something doesn't seem to be working correctly in regard to ignoring cookies, since Spybot is ignoring tracking cookies and I haven't told it to do so.

Maybe one of the Spybot team can address this.

Thanks.

[Amethyst]

I used 'undo' to un-immunize and then ran another spybot scan. Still no cookies found. (I've re-enabled the immunizer.)

On the 'ignore cookies list', still the same list of cookies stored on my hard drive, still 6 of them printed in red. The red indicates bad guys, yet scans say the computer is clean. I have no checks to ignore any of the cookies, never did. In the 'File Sets', I have checks in everything except usage tracks. I have never had checks in the usage tracks and spybot was finding the tracking cookies before I turned immunizer on. It appears I have some tracking cookies stored on my hard drive and spybot identifies them as such by printing their names in red on a list of cookies, but scans don't find them. So either the red is wrong or the scanner has a problem, perhaps.

That's all I'm going to tinker with it until I hear back from someone.

If I put checks in the user tracking, would it come up with a bunch of registry stuff plus listing ALL the cookies? (I don't want that, which is also why I don't want to mess with it until I know more about it.)

Maybe I'll just go into the browser and manually delete those cookies and see if they come back.

Thanks!

[md usa spybot fan]

Amethyst:

Go into Spybot > Mode > Advanced mode > Settings > File Sets. Make sure that the following Set/Filename is checked:

• Cookies.sbi

Go into Spybot > Mode > Advanced mode > Settings > Ignore cookies. Make sure none of the red cookies are checked.

Run another scan.