I am using AVG free edition for anti virus and my internet provider's spyware remover that comes with my subscription to Comcast. It is called PestPatrol. I can run it and it will find a bunch of these tracking cookies and remove them. Then I will run it again, just to make sure, all clean. Then maybe five or ten minutes later I run it again and there are more tracking cookies!
Is there some setting I can change so they will not get in in the first place?
How do you keep "tracking cookies" from getting in your system in the first place?triumph
Yes, that's easy!
If tracking cookies bother you AND you are using Internet Explorer for a browser, a simple change of a setting can let you permanently block all 3rd party (tracking) cookies. (Much easier then constantly removing them!) Go to tools %26gt; internet options %26gt; privacy %26gt; advanced %26gt; check-mark "override automatic cookie handling" %26gt; third party cookies %26gt; tick "block" %26gt; ok %26gt; ok.
But...
Cookies are NOT the cause of your fake security website problem. Guaranteed.
Cookies are just small .txt (text) files that by themselves cannot hurt your computer. Cookies are "set" by almost EVERY web-site that you visit, on every visit. You can delete all your cookies today and by tomorrow you will have dozens again just be visiting web-sites.
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