In a message dated 10/20/2006 8:16:14 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, wizard@xxxxxxxx writes: Hi Arlene, Thursday, October 19, 2006, 6:16:51 PM, you wrote: Aac> I did a scan with Spybot S&D and for the second time found Aac> "problems" to be fixed in the Firefox Cache files. I am also Aac> using Spywareblaster all of the time but apparently there is a Aac> problem at firefox(?). As George suggests, Spybot S&D may just be finding cookies. Cookies are a privacy issue, not a security issue, and nowadays they seem to be mostly just a concern to the paranoid. If you take a closer look at what Spybot S&D says, you'll be able to see whether or not it's talking about cookies. The next possibility is that these are indeed undesirables of some sort. If they are, then there are two things to consider. First, such undesirable stuff is usually only sent to your system by "seedier" web sites. If you're wondering where the files came from, you can simply scan your system (especially the cache area) every 15 minutes or so while you're using your browser. If junk appears a few minutes after you go to a particular site, then that site is probably the source of it, and that site and probably similar sites should be avoided. The second thing to consider is that the junk is useless unless the browser does something with it. IE automatically handles a number of things by default that FF does not. Just letting stuff sit in the cache is unlikely to harm you (although to be prudent, it should be removed anyway), unless you have a tendency to go poking through the cache and trying to open stuff. If you're seeing stuff in the FF cache which was not showing up in the IE cache, then probably there's a difference in your settings. -- Scott. I can't find the piece of paper but I think it was McAfee antivirus that found firefox profiles cache and maybe a trojan, and it is gotten rid of. Arlene -- -------list-services-below----------- Regards, John Durham (list moderator) <http://modecideas.com/contact.html?sig> Freelists login at http://www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi List archives at http://www.freelists.org/archives/pchelpers PC-HELPERS list subscribe/unsub at http://modecideas.com/discuss.htm?sig Latest news live feeds at http://modecideas.com/indexhomenews.htm?sig Good advice is like good paint- it only works if applied.