Hello, I have a question about the Tracking cookies that Spybot finds. When S&D finds cookies, I'll resolve the problem and run the program again. It usually finds the same problems, then I will block the remove the cookies and manually block them in Firefox. When I run S&D, the cookies do not show up.
My question is, is this an effective way of resolving my problems? or am I just tricking S&D into showing results I want to see? Thanks for your help.
(the problems have been:
casalemedia.com
zedo.com
adresolver.com
etc -a few others i can't remember)
spybotsandra
2006-11-14, 13:55
Hello,
You can do the following:
Please go into your Firefox and choose "Tools" from the menubar above.
Then you choose "Options". Now select "Privacy" from the navigation bar on the left.
At the section "Cookies" you have to open the "+" by ticking it.
Please choose "Exceptions".
Now you are able to enter an address of a web site to block it or allow it.
Here is a thread in our forum that deals with the same problem:
http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=3008
If you don't have any other cookies you want to save in Firefox,you could click the Remove All Cookies button. This would be easiest, but don't do it if you have any cookies you want to keep.
If you do have other cookies in Firefox you want to keep, could remove the cookies manually from within Firefox. To do so go to Tools->Options->click the Cookies tab, then click the View Cookies button.
Looking off the Spybot report, scroll through the list to find the tracking cookie(s), then click on the tracking cookie with your mouse, and then click on the remove cookie(s) button.
Or you could try doing another scan with Spybot and see if it removes the tracking cookies this time (though it might not work, but you could try and see).
There's an article here, showing how to block third party cookies.
http://www.spybot.info/en/faq/37.html
It is also recommendable to use SpywareBlaster also, which has an option to Prevent ad/tracking cookies in firefox.
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
Best regards
Sandra
Team Spybot