re: spyware cookie name@~~local~~
Tuesday, March 1, 2005 at 11:54 am
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Jack Gulley
(5917 messages posted)
I have never seen a cookie with that name before. But it sounds like the type
that some Browser Extensions put in your cookie folder. Often these and AD sites
place a cookie with your "local" information that identifies where you live (like
a ZIP CODE or AREA CODE) so that marketer's can target you with "local" ADs. This
is why Ad-Aware SE flags it. So it should be deleted each time you run Ad-Aware SE,
but it will just keep coming back. It is possible that every "AD" on each web page
could be puttion such a cookie on your system.
It is not clear from the wording of your post if you are only finding one cookie
with that name each time, or if you are finding thousands of cookies by that name
(which would be a major problem).
One possible problem I see. Ad-Aware SE uses the WININIT.INI file to delete cookies,
and cookies are not really removed from your machine until you reboot. So there could
be something wrong there, if they come back by just rebooting. Some sort of "hijack
program" could also be doing the same thing.
Try the following: Reboot your system and do not open a Browser. Just run Ad-Aware
SE and delete all that it finds. Then reboot your system and run Ad-Aware SE again
and see if it finds the same cookie(s). If the cookie is back already, there is something
putting it there or the WININIT.INI process is broken on your machine. After booting,
look in the C:\Windows\ folder and see if there is a WININIT.INI file. There should
be a WININIT.BAK file. If you still have the WININIT.INI file, then something is
wrong with your system. Just delete the WININIT.INI file and then make sure you do
have a WININIT.EXE program file in that folder. Extract a clean copy from the system
WIN_17.CAB file if it is missing or not working correctly. Some of the CoolWebSearch
browser hijacker versions damage or remove the WININIT.EXE file.
You might also want to run DELINDEX.BAT to remove all cookies from your
system and give it a good cleaning.
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| | re: spyware cookie name@~~local~~ (Jack Gulley: Tue, Mar 1, 2005, 11:54 am) |
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