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TryThis
2011-09-27, 21:58
What type of cookie is this?

Could this be something installed from browsing on the internet? Could it be something someone installed? "ad.yieldmanager.com" (It says my name in front of "ad.yieldmanager.com"

tashi
2011-09-27, 22:54
Hello TryThis,

http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/ad.yieldmanager.com

Which browser do you use? :)

Cheers.

TryThis
2011-09-27, 23:11
Well, I use firefox, but it says it's from internet explorer. I don't know what that link means.

I want to know how it got on my computer. The name is my ex-boyfriends old company. It's odd - I never went to that site, but it is part of a larger company and it's possible I could have gone to that main site.

I was just wondering if it was something he might have put on my computer to track browsing.

tashi
2011-09-27, 23:30
Hello TryThis,

don't know what that link means..
It is a link to Web Of Trust and shows that the site in question is not trusted by reviewers. "Warning! This site has a poor reputation."

I want to know how it got on my computer. The name is my ex-boyfriends old company. It's odd - I never went to that site, but it is part of a larger company and it's possible I could have gone to that main site. Perhaps one of you visited a site that dropped the cookie.


I was just wondering if it was something he might have put on my computer to track browsing.
One can see a user's browsing if one has access to a person's computer which hasn't been set to clear cookies when the browser is closed.

TryThis
2011-09-27, 23:35
But he doesn't use my computer - at least, he's not supposed to!

That's why I'm wondering.

Is there any way I can find a date for when the cookie was dropped?

tashi
2011-09-27, 23:39
Hi there,



Perhaps one of you visited a site that dropped the cookie.
Please try this: http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Deleting%20cookies :)

TryThis
2011-09-28, 00:00
Before deleting it, I was hoping to find out more info about it

tashi
2011-09-28, 01:33
Hi there,

Tracking cookie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie

Hope that helps. :)

TryThis
2011-09-28, 04:07
So then my suspicion is very likely ...

But if it says "my name internet explorer" (after the word "tracking cookie") does that mean it can only track activity on IE? I use firefox..

lewisje
2011-09-29, 05:06
An IE tracking cookie can only be used to track activity on browsers that embed the Internet Explorer engine; I wonder, if you use one of the "IE Tab" extensions (so some Web apps, like Windows Update for versions of Windows before Vista, will still work in Firefox), have you ever browsed the ordinary web in IE mode?

Another possibility is that you have used another application that in some way uses IE components to deliver Web content; as an example, Soulseek uses IE internally for its "Web" module.

TryThis
2011-09-29, 05:39
Have I browsed the web in IE? Not ordinarily - once to upload some pics to a CVS (store) site so I can go pick them up at the store b/c it wasn't working on Firefox, but I pretty much only ever use firefox.

I wish there was a way to find out the date of this cookie and if he put it there.

lewisje
2011-10-01, 04:20
I wish there was a way to find out the date of this cookie and if he put it there.Try this little utility: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/iecookies.html

If you love that no-installation utility, consider getting the whole set, maintained by Nir Sofer: http://launcher.nirsoft.net/

It also includes integration with the SysinternalsSuite, a set of tiny utilities developed by Mark Russinovich of Microsoft after they purchased his company Sysinternals: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb842062