Currently using IE7 (but worked with IE6 also)
My spytracker gives me the name of the cookie but not the web address(seems
dumb to me).
I take the name given and go to c:\Documents and Settings\myname\cookies
Here I look up the name from the spytracker. Bring the text up for editing
and examine the contents.
In the contents is always the name of the server spy.cdfreaks.com for
instance.
Taking the base (cdfreaks.com) I go to IE7's internet properties / security
and select Restricted sites.
I then add the base address cdfreaks.com (it gets converted to
*.cdfreaks.com when it is inserted).
No more cookies from that site.
My hosts file is empty except for 'localhost'.
First few time thru your spytracker this is a real pain but no worse than
adding to hosts. Now my system stays clean with only a couple of new
tracking cookies per week.

Would like to see spytrackers offer to add the tracker site to the untrusted
sites list!

Michael

"louise" <louise@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
news:4tse7jF15l0mkU1@mid.individual.net...
> I'm getting sick and tired of removing the same tracking cookies everytime
> I run an antispyware program.
>
> So I started looking at the host file at mvp.org. But the notes say that
> any hosts file larger than 135kb will slow down win XP. The MVP hosts
> file is almost 500 kb.
>
> What should one do? Might I just add the things that are consistently
> picked up in my antispyware? Is there a smaller hosts file that is still
> considered valuable?
>
> I'm running FF 2.0 about 95% of the time with noscript and adblockplus -
> but I still collect all these tracking cookies.....
>
> Help?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Louise