"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.