Is there a page where I can find out who owns the cookies that keep appearing when I do scan???

Toydajo

fredg

HI,
When you scan; do you mean such as using Spyware scans, like AdAware?
The "owner" of the cookies will the website the cookie is for.
If you are referring to spyware scans, there is a free, very good, program I use that will block these from gettting into the computer in the first place.
It's called SpyWare Blaster from
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/sbupdate.html

I do wish you the best. And, if you mean something different, please post back.

NeedKarma

You could always open up the cookie and read it. It is simply a small text file. Some operating systems may give a warning dialog box about opening a System file but not to worry - go ahead and read it.

ScottGem

A quick look in my cookies folders shows all cookies using a name format like:



For example



So that cookie would have been set during a visit to cbs.com.

toydajo

Actually I use the Norton package. I weas having problems so I uninstalled it and then reinstalled it then went to trend and found a file that had no info on it. and two cookies that also had no info according to trend.... deleted them and now just wondering if there is a way to find their origin....
Toydajo

toydajo

And if you do happen back in here, thanks for the info I forgot to check the actual www. before letting trend delete them. But I have had them back since then and it was one of the sites I probably shouoldn't be on anyways that was dumping files into my PC. This OneCare by windows is actually giving me an option on cookies so I just block them. Thanks Again for the info ...