Hi all,
I contacted in parallel the 'Intermute technical support' about this issue.
According to their answer, it looks like normal behaviour for CWShredder:
"Unfortunatly part of CW Shredders ability is to reset the settings, so
therefore you would need to change them back after doing a check
using that utility."
I experienced the same consistent behaviour on 2 different computers using
each a different version of CWShredder.
Both have winxp with all latest critical patches unstalled, with ZoneAlarm
as firewall, have no viruses (according to avast, panda online and trend
micro online), both have latest and updated AdAware SE personal and Spybot
1.3 (tracking cookies but they say no spyware) and HijackThis (as far as I
can see, no suspect things in the logs). Checks and scans are carried out on
a regular basis, the only thing that comes out of it are tracking cookies.
No persistent slow-downs in IE, hangs, crashes, or 100% CPU during surfing.
Machine 1 has XP home and I downloaded CWShredder v2.0 as of yesterday
(21-11) - first install ever on that machine. Machine 2 has XP Pro and an
older version CWShredder 1.59.1. Nevertheless, same behaviour on both
machines. Checked out that changes do not occur at boot.
Before running CWShredder, I check the cookie settings (control panel ->
internet options -> privacy tab -> settings: advanced): radio button
'Override automatic cookie handling' is checked, first-party cookies 'ask'
and third-party cookies 'block'. OK
Without any program running (including browsers), I start CWShredder and
click the 'fix' button. Nothing detected on both machines.
But when I check back in 'internet options' right after CWShredder, the
'override automatic cookie handling' is unchecked and although options are
greyed out, they seem to be set to allow first and third party cookies...
(tried it out several times, always same result)
The changes don't take place if you click 'scan only'...
I can live with the fact that CWShredder does do that, but I would have expe
cted some more info from merijn - intermute, or anywhere else on the web, in
newsgroups, but couldn't find any indication.
Thanks for all replies!
Jan