There are about 25 tracking cookies that won't go away, and a thing called "adware". I don't care whether they're a threat to my safety on the computer or not, I want them off!!!! How do I get them to go away? They're slowing down the internent and how fast things load...help?
2007-05-11 08:21:26 · 7 answers · asked by Biology Nerd 5 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
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 tommorrow you will have dozens again.
You could have 50,000 cookies on your computer and it would not slow it down one bit!
They are not a virus or spyware, but some people consider "tracking" cookies to be an invasion of privacy.
Tracking cookies are mostly "3rd party cookies" from advertising servers. They can track your movements around the web in order to deliver to you customised, targeted advertising.
It all depends on one's level of paranoria.
If you are using Internet Explorer for a browser, you can permanantly block all 3rd party cookies. Go to tools > internet options > privacy > advanced > checkmark "override automatic cookie handling" > third party cookies > tick "block" > ok > ok.
2007-05-11 08:30:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could run an anti spyware scan to get rid of the tracking cookies. AdAware may actually be an anti spyware program that helps keep your computer safe.
You may, however, be able to uninstall it by going to the Control Panel and then clicking on Add or Remove Programs and clicking on edit or remove next to the name of the program you don't want anymore.
2007-05-11 15:25:26 · answer #2 · answered by Jamie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Boot your computer in the safe mode (Press F8 at boot) and try again to delete them. Good luck
2007-05-11 15:25:55 · answer #3 · answered by alex m 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try to remove them anti-virus, anti-spyware softwares and if that fails, I suggest that you reinstall your whole computer for the problem to go away.
2007-05-11 17:27:09 · answer #4 · answered by Oli-NYC 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have located them and you couldn't delete them because those files were in use, try to boot your PC to safe mode (CTR+F8 during Windows boot) and delete them.
2007-05-11 15:27:49 · answer #5 · answered by coolaomnet 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you cant delete it in safe mode,you can search a program called 'killbox' in google,it can delete anything.
2007-05-12 09:48:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
try restarting the computer and then delete.
or download Adaware
2007-05-11 15:24:31 · answer #7 · answered by You may be right 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋