Norton Internet Security / Norton AntiVirus

[GreatNate1312]

oh I see, well this whole cookie situation is really heating up! Iv never dealt with one as tasty as this

[dodger39]

I'm not really concerned about it, as it's classified as a cookie. More curious as to why it's just started appearing.

It's only coming up when I go to a website (anyone). I use the same sites all the time, very rarely go elsewhere.

It doesn't come up when I initially open my browser (IE7), only when I go to a site.

And as far as it being tasty, you should try a roo sanger.

[AuntC]

For me, it comes up just opening IE browser to my home page.  Then I scan and the cookie is there.  Doesn't happen with Firefox.

[dennis_lawler · Accepted solution]

Hello to all, and sorry about the confusion this has caused!

"Orphan" cookies are what we call cookie files in your Temporary Internet Files folder that do not have a parent entry in the Internet Explorer index file.

There is nothing to worry about - these cookies are not seen by IE, so they are merely taking up hard drive space.  The "Orphan Cleanup" cookie is a special operation that simply cleans up these extra cookies.

This cookie has actually been around ever since the Tracking Cookie Cleanup feature was added - however, it was not previously visible, so there appeared to be a discrepancy between the list of cookies displayed, and the count that Norton reported.  This is why Norton used to report 3 cookies, while showing only 2 in the details.  To make the count match the display, we recently updated Norton to display the "Orphan Cleanup" cookie.

Hope this clears a few things up!

[dodger39]

Thanks for clearing that up Dennis. Now everyone can go back to sleep.

[AuntC]

Thanks very much for your answer.  Appreciate it.

[NY1986]

cool. But since I was the one who opened this question, who was able to mark it solved?

[ProTruckDriver Super Spam Squasher]

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NY1986 wrote:
cool. But since I was the one who opened this question, who was able to mark it solved?

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THE COOKIE MONSTER!!    Just kidding. It was probably the people in RED.

[minsk2]

One to me then !!!!!! 

[ETN_TC]

So when the Orphan Cleanup cookie is found should we tell Norton to "Fix or "Ignore" it or does it matter"?