Re: Ad Aware and Alternatives
- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 09:05:12 -0800
Oh. Well, to be candid, I never stop at the end of the scan, switch to the
Jaws cursor if necessary, and inspect what AdAware says it's found in the
way of threats or whatever it calls them. I just say yes to all, major and
minor. And I've never yet inadvertently thus disabled or deleted a cookie so
that the next time I visited a site that was important to me, I could not
get on without logging in all over again. Plus, really, I can't even
understand why AdAware would perceive a simple text cookie as an intrusion
of any sort. I mean, I do not understand this technically at all.
anyway, please understand that I do not have problems when on the Web or
anytime else that resemble what people say can be caused by spyware. So I'm
really pretty content, in any case, and all these details others are talking
about-- run this spyware program, then do this, then run that one, etc., all
seem excessive to me, but only because I just feel adequately taken care of
by running Spyware Blaster or whatever it is to keep an eye on things, and
then running AdAware once a week to clean up whatever got through the net.
So it's okay. I just don't have an issue with cookies, is all, Sorry if that
doesn't sound as astute as it ought to.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Clendinen" <alanclendinen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 1:44 AM
Subject: re: Ad Aware and Alternatives
Yardbird,
The only possible reason for deleting cookies prior to running Ad Aware or
some other anti-spyware program, is so it doesn't flag any tracking-cookies
as spyware. I've done this too, just to make it easier to determine if Ad
Aware or Spybot really find something nasty. I don't want to be told dozens
of items were put in quarantine, if they were all just tracking cookies.
Alan
Yardbird wrote:
another? Why would you expect an anti spyware program to turn up spyware
once you've deleted some cookies from your cookies folder? I hope my
question is clear.
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