infected cookies... - boatmote

anyone know the cure for stopping unwanted infected cookies?
I have a program that takes the infected cookies out ,but I need something
to stop getting the infected cookies,I can disable accepting cookies,but then
I can't check my yahoo mail or even go on my bank site, IS THERE A CURE FOR
THIS PROBLEM?????
i HAVE HAD TO WIPE MY HARD DRIVE 3 TIMES DUE TO GETTING VIRUSES IN THE
INFECTED COOKIES.  the people responsable for loading our pc's with these
infections should be hunk by the sack untill dead.. seems my spyware and
virus programs are useless in stopping  the infected cookies from entering my
pc.

What AV program do you use? - Bruce Hagen

What AV program do you use? Avast is free and good. Apparently, your program
is not doing a good job.

Avast:
http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html

Windows Defender would be a good idea as an addition to your AV, not a
replacement.

Windows Defender:
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA

infected cookies... - Daniel Crichton

boatmoter wrote  on Tue, 6 May 2008 07:36:03 -0700:


What have you used to determine that the virus was sourced from a cookie? I
find it highly unlikely that is where it's come from. Even if you did get a
virus delivered in a cookie, you'd still need to be able to execute it - and
your browser won't do that, the cookie is just a file for temporary storage
of small bits of data to be passed between your browser and the originating
server.

--
Dan

Cookies are text files not programs so they cannot be infected. - Tom [Pepper] Willett

Cookies are text files not programs so they cannot be infected. However,
they can be threats to your privacy, if they are tracking cookies. By the
time your scanner detects those cookies they've already done their work.

here's what Spybot search and Destroy has to say about cookies:
http://www.spybot.info/en/faq/37.html

How can a cookie be infected? Are you referring to unwanted cookies? - PA Bear [MS MVP]

How can a cookie be infected?  Are you referring to unwanted cookies?  What
AV app are you running?
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
DTS-L http://dts-l.net/

infected cookies... - Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM

Cookies CANNOT be "infected".
have written to that site.  Go to Tools | Internet Options | Privacy and
block third-party cookies.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
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