ad-aware

[Guest]

I have windows xp home with sp2. Every few days when i run my ad-aware (free
edition) scan, it always finds 2 or 3 infected files (data miners or tracking
cookies) in browser cache. How can I stop these getting into my computer? I
have norton anti virus and also AVG anti virus free edition installed as well
as spybot. Any ideas?
jimbo 6.

 

[D@annyBoy]

they are just plain old cookies
clean the cache after surfing

While having coffee and bread this morning, I read that jimbo 6 wrote in

 

[Guest]

What is their purpose and what is the easiest way to clean the cache?

 

[Peter Foldes]

Right click on the IE icon on desktop then select Properties and then Delete Cookies then Delete Files

 

[Vincenzo Di Russo [MVP]]

What is their purpose and what is the easiest way to clean the cache?

[...]

See:
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/cookies.htm
"Blocking Unwanted Cookies with IE 6"
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/delcache.htm
"Safely Delete the Temporary Internet Files".