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Boggin:
--- Quote from: Lady on December 20, 2015, 05:06:12 am ---How can I get to see the Cookies folder in Explorer?
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You can see the Cookies on the computer with the free version of CCleaner.
https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download
During its install it has a box to intelligently clean cookies but I leave that unchecked and run it at the end of each session.
When you run the program, click on Options/Monitoring and uncheck those boxes, otherwise it will unnecessarily be running in the background.
While in Options, click on the Cookies link and that will list them.
Lady:
I use CCleaner and I see the list you're talking about. But I meant in Explorer, like Jethro mentions in #28. I found out how to make the folder visible (http://www.thewindowsclub.com/cookies-folder-location-windows) but it doesn't seem to work. Maybe after a reboot? Well, it's not that important. Just curious why he can see it and I cannot. :smiley:
Lady:
Oh, and I just ran a BullGuard full scan and it came up with a malicious tracking cookie...... :omg: How in the world is that possible with this wall I just built around my pc? :smiley:
Jethro Bodine:
--- Quote from: Lady on December 20, 2015, 05:59:39 am ---Oh, and I just ran a BullGuard full scan and it came up with a malicious tracking cookie...... :omg: How in the world is that possible with this wall I just built around my pc? :smiley:
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Hi Lady , that was my feeling exactly , on finding this one blighter that always gets through the defenses ,
and yes , that folder is hidden by default.
In answer to your earlier question , there are two ways I find it -
Start button -> Computer then in the explorer window , replace "Computer" with this path -
C:\Users\MyMachine\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies
where "MyMachine" is whatever yours is called
The other way is to use "Everything" from Voidtools ( free ) which , incidentally is the best search tool
I have ever seen ...... I can't recommend it too highly ! .... I only wish there was a Linux equivalent.
Start Everything , wait a moment for the disc to be searched , then enter " cookies " in the search box ,
look for the appropriate folder , right click and choose " Open "
It makes the M$ Windows search look like something from the Stone Age !
Lady:
Hi Jethro,
COOL! It worked with the path in the explorer window. See image. The Low folder is empty. What are these other 3? Are those cookies? Should I delete them?? When I click on them, Notepad opens and a lot of numbers and letters appear. Like this, the first one:
__cfduid
d77a3acd14e57e53bb5749fedcd7d483f1450003654
avaaz.org/
9728
624404224
30561381
2915475543
30487955
*
It might be the cookie that remembers my mail address when I sign petitions for the Avaaz organization. (If you're concerned about the world's crises and the environment etc. you should check them out, they're awesome!) If that is true, they're harmless. (The other two are another one from Avaaz and one from my cell phone company.)
I must tell you that the tracking cookie that BullGuard found was called Cookie .2o7. As far as I could find out, it's linked to gathering info for Adobe and iTunes. I checked the cookies list in CCleaner, like Boggin explained, and I don't see the cookie with which you're battling, :smiley:, the adnxs.com. I don't know why I don't have it. :S
Isn't it weird that the cookies list in CCleaner is so much longer than the Windows Cookies folder? Are all those "good" cookies :smiley:, useful or functional ones? CCleaner says "Select the cookies you want to keep". But I don't recognize all of them. Hmmm. My logical mind says: BullGuard or MBAM would have found the bad cookies among them. Am I right?
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