I'm a little confused about tracking cookies; I'm using NIS 21.1.1.7 on a Windows 8.1 PC with IE11.
My main issue is every time a scan removes tracking cookies I have to 'reset' many websites' default preferences. I have a few questions:
Is there any real security risk ignoring tracking cookies in NIS Settings? I don't really care if my internet use is tracked or not, so beyond that is there a real privacy risk?
Is the tracking cookies scan different from a quick scan, or is that when it happens?
If I set 'Ignore Tracking Cookies' in the computer scan settings, and set 'Remove' in the full scan setting, it will leave them until the monthly full scan removes them, correct?
If this is how NIS treats tracking cookies with the above settings, it seems a good compromise to convenience.
I'm a little confused about tracking cookies; I'm using NIS 21.1.1.7 on a Windows 8.1 PC with IE11.
My main issue is every time a scan removes tracking cookies I have to 'reset' many websites' default preferences. I have a few questions:
Is there any real security risk ignoring tracking cookies in NIS Settings? I don't really care if my internet use is tracked or not, so beyond that is there a real privacy risk?
Is the tracking cookies scan different from a quick scan, or is that when it happens?
If I set 'Ignore Tracking Cookies' in the computer scan settings, and set 'Remove' in the full scan setting, it will leave them until the monthly full scan removes them, correct?
If this is how NIS treats tracking cookies with the above settings, it seems a good compromise to convenience.
Same problem here on Windows 7 with IE11. Norton appears to be corrupting the IE cookie cache in some way causing IE to reset the database and remove ALL cookies. It is very annoying and there are lots of threads on this issue with no fix apart from turning off cookie removal.
Just a thought but I wonder if Norton removing cookies in the background while IE is running is a bad idea.
I'm a little confused about tracking cookies; I'm using NIS 21.1.1.7 on a Windows 8.1 PC with IE11.
My main issue is every time a scan removes tracking cookies I have to 'reset' many websites' default preferences. I have a few questions:
Is there any real security risk ignoring tracking cookies in NIS Settings? I don't really care if my internet use is tracked or not, so beyond that is there a real privacy risk?
Is the tracking cookies scan different from a quick scan, or is that when it happens?
If I set 'Ignore Tracking Cookies' in the computer scan settings, and set 'Remove' in the full scan setting, it will leave them until the monthly full scan removes them, correct?
If this is how NIS treats tracking cookies with the above settings, it seems a good compromise to convenience.
Thanks for the input.
BajaBoojum ,
As Buck115 mentioned, the Tracking Cookie removal action does remove 'net settings, usernames at sites, etc , depending on the IE version.
I'm running Norton 360 2013 (ver 20.4.0.40) with Windows 7 x64 with IE10 . I disabled the Tracking Cookie removal option in my Full and Qick Scans and that eliminated the issue for me.
I'm running unattended daily overnight Full Sys scans with the setting disabled and my 'net settings remain unaffected.
I haven't looked at workarounds regarding Cookie removals yet.
Tracking cookie removal does things like changes the CNN website so I get prompts to set the default location, on a bank website I have to reopen a dropdown menu so Identity Safe can fill it properly, and I get lots of cookie notifications. I even had another bank not let me login until I opened the website a couple of times first.
It seems ignoring tracking cookies is the way to go unless NIS changes how it handles them.
Tracking cookie removal does things like changes the CNN website so I get prompts to set the default location, on a bank website I have to reopen a dropdown menu so Identity Safe can fill it properly, and I get lots of cookie notifications. I even had another bank not let me login until I opened the website a couple of times first.
It seems ignoring tracking cookies is the way to go unless NIS changes how it handles them.
Thanks for the comments!
I guess it comes down to a choice for the PC user, keep all Tracking Cookies purged or leave them on the HDD. For me, the convenience of keeping the cookies is worth the risk of privacy issues, as with probably most PC users, I have multiple sites that I visit daily that require login information.
I forgot to mention the most annoying tracking cookie removal result- Bing. Bing is my IE homepage and I don't like the photos, so I set it for the gray background. Every cookie cleaning I have to go back into Bing help and reset the preference. You'd think MS could find a better way to keep such a basic setting.
