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To All,
I have NIS 2008 installed on three PCs - XP SP2 - Laptop and Desktop and Vista Home - Desktop.
I noticed the Vista and XP Desktops always want to fix and Low - tracking cookie - this happens every week.
Not sure why this happens... I have searched for cookies under all users and removed them along with temp files and temp internet files.
The laptop rarely receives this tracking cookie fix message. ALL PCs are updated automatically as needed for all software updates.
So far - there have been no viruses found.
any ideas,
PerDiem856
I'm not sure what you mean.
If I'm correct you mean that every week Norton wants to fix some cookies?
If I understand you correctly, you're saying that when your machine carries out a system scan it always ends up with the result of one low priority tracking cookie found and offers to fix it.
I've found this too and yet I'm always clearing my browsing history and Norton continues to find it.
sosull wrote:If I understand you correctly, you're saying that when your machine carries out a system scan it always ends up with the result of one low priority tracking cookie found and offers to fix it.
I've found this too and yet I'm always clearing my browsing history and Norton continues to find it.
Hi,
perhaps you have installed a software like MSN Messenger, ICQ and so on. This "adware" contains advertisement and sometimes it leaves some cookies on your PC. Another way is that Adobe Flash stores it's cookies in another directory as the IE. Maybe this is the problem that Norton only find them in a scan.
Cheerio
Lars
HorstL wrote:Hi,
perhaps you have installed a software like MSN Messenger, ICQ and so on. This "adware" contains advertisement and sometimes it leaves some cookies on your PC. Another way is that Adobe Flash stores it's cookies in another directory as the IE. Maybe this is the problem that Norton only find them in a scan.
Cheerio
Lars
s4u wrote:Or maybe a browser toolbar?
It's off topic but I hate these toolbars. If you don't care and install your freeware or other programs with default options it's possible that someday you only have little window to surf because hundred toolbars needing place... *lol* and most you don't know what they do if you surf through the web.
Cheerio
Lars
HorstL wrote:
s4u wrote:Or maybe a browser toolbar?It's off topic but I hate these toolbars. If you don't care and install your freeware or other programs with default options it's possible that someday you only have little window to surf because hundred toolbars needing place... *lol* and most you don't know what they do if you surf through the web.CheerioLars
Hi,
Do you use 3rd party hosts file?
This is a good question, the tracking cookie does come up with a 'fix' option and then all is well again until the system does another scan. I haven't seen any way to turn this 'feature' off as yet. it appears in both N360 and NIS.
You don't have to have visited any dodgy sites for it to appear, some legit sites use them to improve the user experience. So if you aren't worried about where you (or kids / other users etc) might have been, the quickest way is just to ignore the message. The machine I am using at the moment (isnt mine so I can't check config settings)
Mark
markdl wrote:This is a good question, the tracking cookie does come up with a 'fix' option and then all is well again until the system does another scan. I haven't seen any way to turn this 'feature' off as yet. it appears in both N360 and NIS.
Donna wrote:
markdl wrote:This is a good question, the tracking cookie does come up with a 'fix' option and then all is well again until the system does another scan. I haven't seen any way to turn this 'feature' off as yet. it appears in both N360 and NIS.
Hi,There is an option to stop Norton to scan for tracking cookies by going to Manual scanning>General settings.HTH,
Hi Donna,
No I do not use 3rd party hosts - I think after reading everyone response, my gut feeling - is no one can tll for sure and I will have to live with it.
Thanks for ALL the Help,
PerDiem856
a lot of the times is due to all those annoying cookies that are required when visiting certain sites.
Also, please keep in mind that NIS/NAV would do an automatic liveupdate so sometimes depending on the patch that was downloaded, it would run a quick scan on your machine.
Thanks for getting back PerDiem856.
Don't lose hope :)
The other reason that this is maybe happening is because there are cookies that you have not deleted.
Cookies in Vista is handled differently. I'm not sure how you manage cookies (manually or using 3rd party application) but you might want to try to use CCleaner (in case you are not using this application yet) to analyze the system for cookies, unneeded files, temporary files that can be deleted from the system. See if there are really no more cookies that NIS is misdetectiing or there are still cookies that tracks in which NIS is correctly detecting.
The reason I mentioned the above is because I'm using NIS 2008 on Vista but no cookies is detected during scan (monthly, week, quick).
Whether I'll run it manually or allow the scheduled scan.
I did noticed that issue before though but it is detecting the entry in the hosts file and marked as "cookies" and it was fixed after reporting
it to Symantec support.
Regards,
Donna,
I believe I am seeing the same issue as originally reported by the OP. NIS 2008 seems to be behaving differently than it used to (this may be by design). Here is my experience...
When I fist installed NIS 2008 and allowed it to do a weekly full system scan it would find tracking cookies on my PC. I could select "Ignore" and then those cookies would no longer trigger the warning when a full scan was done.
A few months ago NIS started behaving differently. Now, when I select "Ignore" it doesn't seem to do anything. I get the same warning the next week during the scan.
I finally set it to not scan for cookies and this resolved the problem but it doesn't make me feel good to have to make this change in NIS.
I guess the way I expect it to work is that when I select "Ignore" NIS logs those cookies on my PC and doesn't alert to them again.
Maybe I just don't know the difference between the choices that come up "Fix" vs. "Ignore." I assume that "Fix" will delete the cookies but what does "Ignore" do?
By the way, this happens on two different XP Pro (SP2) boxes and one Vista Ultimate (SP1) box. I'm not using any special hosts files.
Thank you for any suggestions.
To All,
Well, I have used Cleaner several years ago - but I will try it again - being "Freeware" - I do not have much faith....
I have lived to long and have a firm belief - "There are no "FREE" lunch in Life." - that include "FREEWARE" lunch.
I have been glued to the "Masters" ALL weekend - waiting for Tiger to make his move.....
Flyer Wins...
Phillies Lose
and still waiting for Tiger - to make his move.... Trevor Emmelman has just put it within 3 feet of the pin on 13
PC will make our lives better, PC will make our lives better..... Uncle Bill, Uncle Bill - "Are we in Sillycon Vally anymore....."
Thanks again to All,
PerDiem856
Hi Ed,
Like you.. I don't like NIS to not to scan for tracking cookies. I want it enabled so I know if there's really a tracking cookie on my systems or not. It's enabled here and so far no tracking cookies to fix.
I highly suggest to run a cookie manager e.g. CCleaner, Karen's Cookie Viewer to see if there's really no cookies that NIS is flagging. Delete any cookies you don't want to keep. Next, enable NIS to scan for tracking cookies. See what will happen on next Norton scan.
"Ignore" means Norton will not do anything with the particular risk that you choosed it to not to handle during that scan session.
"Fix" means it should handle it by deleting the offending cookies and should not appear again unless something rewrites the cookies in place again.
Hi,
CCleaner has been updated many times and so far it's doing fine here on my Vista. You can create a backup before you let it handle what you asked it to clean-up.
If you are not comfortable in trying a freeware, there's other paid privacy tool e.g. Window Washer by Webroot but I have not try this on Vista.
In case you want to manage the cookies.. see freeware Karen's Cookie Viewer. Just run and view if you really have Cookies that Norton is detecting. You can also use it to delete the cookies if you like.