"AMUN" <spamblocker@bett.net> wrote:

>
>"Terry Pinnell" <terrypin@dial.pipex.com> wrote in message
>news:35q0j3t0l0qj4vg8acjgt8b7ve6ims8oi2@4ax.com.. .
>> This is a common occurrence on my Win XP Home PC. I just ran Adaware
>> (with latest definitions) and it found only one 'critical object', a
>> tracking cookie. (The quarantine log entry shows it was Referencefile
>> : SE1R201 05.11.2007 TRACKING COOKIE obj[0]=IECache Entry :
>> Cookie:terry@real.com/"
>> so I take it that it's something to do with RealPlayer.)
>>
>> But then I ran Spybot (with latest definitions) and that found 6 more
>> tracking cookies: Adviva, Doubleclick, Mediaplex, Statcounter,
>> Tradedoubler, and Zedo.
>>
>> Those seem very familiar names to me. Why didn't Adaware also report
>> them?
>>
>> --
>> Terry, East Grinstead, UK
>
>
>I would assume they just never got around to adding them yet.
>Cookies are not really a priority, as they are fairly benign.
>I would rather seeing them spending their time going after the really nasty
>malware anyway
>
>I've been using both programs for quite a while now and found each week one
>catches something the other misses, on average both seem equally as good as
>the other.
>
>Use both and you are covered.
>

OK, thank both, understood. I hadn't realised it was quite so
subjective! I'll carry on using both in complementary fashion.

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK