How harmful are cookies? It seems everytime I run a spyware scan they show up. Should I remove them or not.?
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Cookies are not "harmful."  They are flat text files.  The harmful stuff are scripts and programs.  Cookies show up in spy ware scans because they represent an effort by someone on the Internet to catalog or store something from you. Cookies that show up in spy ware scans are normally from known advertisers or marketeers who are marking your information so they can collate into statistics that they sell to others.  Be deleting these files you are telling those marketeers 'NO THANKS.' Don't use me to make money on.\n\nBut not all cookies are bad.  In some cases this may be the fact that you visited the site before and when you go back to the site it responds with "Hi Wendy, welcome back."  How did they know who you are?  Because of a cookie.
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Scan for virus and it should/will tell you what potential if any spyware has been downloaded to your computer. Then you have the option to delete the files or not. I use McAfee.
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Sounds like you have already been compromised. Try running scanner specifically targeting spyware while in safe mode.
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..Hi ..This links is very good;) ...\nOr you can try : ..spy ware Doctor...\nKind regards! ..And.. good luck!;) ..
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How fricken patheetic can you get. Pay someone so they can have spyware on their computer? LOLOL\nSpyware, can't speak English, Credit card...Are people THAT STUPID!? oh proably
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Get firefox, delete spyware with adaware\n\nhttp://www.jimmyr.com/security.php
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Can you search next time please.... Try spybot and adaware.
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Try using an adware removal program like Lavasoft Ad-aware of Spybot Search&Destroy. The best though is Hijackthis, a little hard to use though. Try using a yahoo search to find instructions on how to use it if you choose it!
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M to delete spyware...make sure when you scan your computer for spyware or any other threats, make sure is up to date. \n\nWhat you need to do:\n1. Install any Spyware program, make sure is a well-known spyware program such as Microsft Defender Beta, McAfee...\n2. Update it!\n3. Close all programs\n4. Scan your computer under an Administrator account\n5. After finishes, if spyware was detected, remove or deleted\n6. If it did not detect anything, then two things are true:\na. You do not have spyware\nb. You have scan under Safe mode\n* If you don't know how to go under Safe mode, do the following:\nYou have to be fast!\n\nAfter you turn your computer on and before Windows starts:\n1. Press F8. \n2. A menu of choices will appear--one of them should be "Safe Mode"\n3. Select its number and Windows will start in safe mode\n\nThen just everything else is the same, do the steps for scanning.\nHope it helps!
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oh dear been looking at those rudie sites again eh!!  go run spybot s&d , if that dont work google ,  malware remover and have a look around at whats there
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Hi ,\n\n  I use the AVG Anti Virus Personal Edition.\nMake a search on google for this. \nFor spyware Ad Aware is a decent program. \n\nRegs,\nm
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No, they tread a fine line. You technically agree to everything when you download. IT's a bit sleazy.\n\nBut they don't monitor what you do, or take your personal info, so it's not spyware. Just ANNOYWARE.
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Scan your PC with these.\n\nAll of these are ones that I personally use and all are free.\n\nAVG Removes I-Worm/Stration · BackDoor.Generic3.GBB and .GBC · Worm/Generic.FX · Exploit.WMF\nhttp://free.grisoft.com/doc/5390/lng/us/tpl/v5\n\nSpybot - Search & Destroy detects and removes spyware, a relatively new kind of threat not yet covered by common anti-virus applications. Spyware silently tracks your surfing behaviour to create a marketing profile for you that is transmitted without your knowledge to the compilers and sold to advertising companies. If you see new toolbars in your Internet Explorer that you haven't intentionally installed, if your browser crashes inexplicably, or if your home page has been "hijacked" (or changed without your knowledge), your computer is most probably infected with spyware. Even if you don't see the symptoms, your computer may be infected, because more and more spyware is emerging. Spybot-S&D is free, so there's no harm giving it a try to see if something has invaded your computer.\nhttp://www.safer-networking.org/\n\nhttp://superantispyware.com/\nSUPERAntiSpyware is the most thorough scanner on the market. Our Multi-Dimensional Scanning and Process Interrogation Technology will detect spyware that other products miss! SUPERAntiSpyware will remove ALL the Spyware, NOT just the easy ones!\nEasily remove over 100,000 pests such as SmitFraud, Vundo, WinFixer, SpyAxe, SpyFalcon, WinAntiVirus, AntiVermins and thousands more!\nMake sure after you download any of these, that you update them.\n\nhttp://ccleaner.com\nCCleaner is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. But the best part is that it's fast (normally taking less than a second to run) and contains NO Spyware or Adware
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I'm using a free software called AD Aware which scans for spyware/adware and and enables me to delete them. It's suppose to be the best. So I'm not afraid of such software anymore.  \n  Only thing is, I'm not sure if AD Aware scans itself. Just joking !
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take care from spywares !
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These are the ones I use.\n\nAll of these are ones that I personally use and all are free.\n\nAVG Removes I-Worm/Stration · BackDoor.Generic3.GBB and .GBC · Worm/Generic.FX · Exploit.WMF\nhttp://free.grisoft.com/doc/5390/lng/us/tpl/v5\n\nSpybot - Search & Destroy detects and removes spyware, a relatively new kind of threat not yet covered by common anti-virus applications. Spyware silently tracks your surfing behaviour to create a marketing profile for you that is transmitted without your knowledge to the compilers and sold to advertising companies. If you see new toolbars in your Internet Explorer that you haven't intentionally installed, if your browser crashes inexplicably, or if your home page has been "hijacked" (or changed without your knowledge), your computer is most probably infected with spyware. Even if you don't see the symptoms, your computer may be infected, because more and more spyware is emerging. Spybot-S&D is free, so there's no harm giving it a try to see if something has invaded your computer.\nhttp://www.safer-networking.org/\n\nhttp://superantispyware.com/\nSUPERAntiSpyware is the most thorough scanner on the market. Our Multi-Dimensional Scanning and Process Interrogation Technology will detect spyware that other products miss! SUPERAntiSpyware will remove ALL the Spyware, NOT just the easy ones!\nEasily remove over 100,000 pests such as SmitFraud, Vundo, WinFixer, SpyAxe, SpyFalcon, WinAntiVirus, AntiVermins and thousands more!\nMake sure after you download any of these, that you update them.
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google for a program called hijackthis and that will remove it just watch what your doing with the program since it can mess things up if done wrong \nonce thats finished run all the spyware checks.