Cookies (No not food lol)

[Leon]

So recently I'm in the forums for a place I joined and I think yesterday the site page started to mess up a little bit and it nearly redirected me to a random site and I was told that it was some russian site then seconds later took you back to Google. Strange enough google doesn't even know wth it is. Anyway I've been concerned about these cookies since its been tracked in my virus scans it showed 2 called "Cookie doubleclicker" and "Cookie Atdmt" and it removed the 2 files after it was done.

 

The people in the other forum said it happened to them as well with Safari, Chrome, Firefox and IE8 (which I use blah blah)

 

Does anyone know if these cause harm to the PC or what? I've already tried on different occasions deleting browsing history and cookies too just incase. Also I'm not really sure how to change my settings to block I guess 3rd party cookies which some people say it's best to do that, but I never really had any problems with this before and I always go to the same places like Youtube, SG, and other safe sites.

[Veggie]

In chrome you can clear flash cookies and cached data, need to be using chrome v14, you can do this in firefox as well. Also try Ccleaner link below.

 

CCleaner - Optimization and Cleaning - Free Download

[Leon]

I havent done tha CC cleaner yet but I did another virus scan and more came up just 5 now

 

Eyeblaster

2O7

yeildmanager

Atmtd

doubleclicker

 

Imma just wait and check with my dad first about it and see what he could do.

[James]

Normally cookies aren't dangerous, they can be annoying though if you don't regularly clear your cache. Those two that you named I believe they are data miners, which simply gather browsing info for commercial puposes like many other cookies.

 

Are Cookies Dangerous? - Added Bytes by Dave Child

 

If you scroll down to the bottom it will show you a few basic options depending on what browser you use in order for you to block 3rd party cookies, should prove useful Otherwise, I guess depending if your firewall/virus scanning software has a built in malware/spyware/adware remover you could try that.

[Leon]

Right well I used the CC cleaner to check the cookies, history etc and deleted it so I'm running Virus Scan again to make sure and so far nothing popped up for tracking cookies (usually got 4 or 5). I might as well stay away from the site for a while since after I go there and did another virus scan they showed up again. Thanks for the help guys ^_^

[NaY.]

I am not 100% sure but I think its a google redirect virus..

[Leon]

I am not 100% sure but I think its a google redirect virus..

 

Well the guy talked with the provider to get rid of it and said it wasn't a virus, some people mentioned their anti virus "screamed" at them but mine never caught anything terrible. Anytime I do a full scan it catches 5 but deletes it afterwords. My PC hasnt fucked up by going slow etc so thats good lol