Norton Antivirus just reported a “tracking cookie” detected on my comput. What is “cookie”? How do I treat it?
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As I am browsing the internet on my computer now, I got the above message. What is cookie? How could a cookie be tracking my computer and what for?
The antivirus also reported that, it requires attention. How do I take care of it?
I even noticed that, my computer just became much slower than usual, could it be responsible? What should I do?
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run a scan and when it finds it press fix and it will remove it its not that big of a deal really its not a virus or anything.
its not a virus. don’t worry.
every time you went to an web-page, it will automatically store cookies on your temp folder. cookies is to keep track of where you had gone to.
just click fix it or you can disable the popup optio if have to.
1st party cookies = from the site you ‘asked’ you browser to go to (and are usually helpful & benign);
Session cookies = current cookies for that session (also benign);
Persistent cookies = cookies the first party gives you to remember log in’s, your more ‘permanent’ 1st party data, and so on;
3rd party cookies = assets from servers not related directly to the 1st party (these are commonly advertising, but may have more sinister implications); may also have long term ‘expiration’ TTL’s.
Flash cookies = an entirely different form of "cookie", that is not handled by browser settings (by normal ‘cookie’ protocol) that must be dealt with by entirely different methods.
Advertisers (and other unscrupulous parties) have managed to trick your browser into revealing information about you & your surfing habits (and more) with these 3rd party cookies (and lately "flash" cookies).
These are the ones that many anti-malware scans turn up as ’spyware’ or worse.
You should always block these, as they are hardly ever needed by anyone.
Settings are usually in your browsers ‘Privacy’ section.
1st party & session cookies should be allowed, but can be scrubbed out with modified browser settings, or utilities such as "CCleaner".
GRC’s ‘cookie operation’ (how all this stuff works):
http://www.grc.com/cookies/operation.htm
For evaluation of your browser’s cookie ‘asset’ handling, what info may be ‘leaking’, etc., go here:
http://www.grc.com/cookies/forensics.htm
Just fix it
set all options of norton to default it will do the work no need to worry with cookies
don’t leave the cookie jar next your pc
Click the "Eat it" button.