Unable to allow specific cookies that NIS keeps identifying for removal - tv guide, for example

I am pretty frustrated with the inability to get NIS to stop identifying the tv guide cookie as a security issue-- as a result, I have to either constantly reset my settings for the tv guide website, or forego the security feature of NIS that removes tracking cookies-

 

The inability to identify a specific cookie as 'ok' makes NIS pretty unusable as far as protection from tracking cookies goes-- you can make your system very user unfriendly and have to reset preferences every day, or have tracking cookie protection - not both

 

I have read the posts that suggest various ways to solve this - they don't work - i have my system set to 'ask me' for cookies- it never asks anything about individual cookies -

one posting says to select the individual cookie and say 'exclude' - that feature has been gone from the product for several years- that is the whole point - NO way to individually select a cookie and tell NIS it's 'ok'

 

is anyone from Norton looking at these forums to see what issues are giving users headaches??? 


mm1234zzz wrote:

one posting says to select the individual cookie and say 'exclude' - that feature has been gone from the product for several years- that is the whole point - NO way to individually select a cookie and tell NIS it's 'ok'


According to the following workaround, the idea is not to exclude a specific individual cookie but to run the scan and remove all tracking cookies, let the TV Guide cookie be set again, then scan and exclude all the found cookies (which should only be TV Guide at that point).

 

http://community.norton.com/t5/Norton-Internet-Security-Norton/Excluding-a-Cookie/m-p/299980/highlight/true#M128796


SendOfJive wrote:

mm1234zzz wrote:

one posting says to select the individual cookie and say 'exclude' - that feature has been gone from the product for several years- that is the whole point - NO way to individually select a cookie and tell NIS it's 'ok'


According to the following workaround, the idea is not to exclude a specific individual cookie but to run the scan and remove all tracking cookies, let the TV Guide cookie be set again, then scan and exclude all the found cookies (which should only be TV Guide at that point).

 

http://community.norton.com/t5/Norton-Internet-Security-Norton/Excluding-a-Cookie/m-p/299980/highlight/true#M128796


All that does is change the "Tracking Cookie Scan" setting (Remove, Ignore, Ask Me) under Settings, Computer Scan, to "Ignore"; which then ignores all tracking cookies from that point forward.

 

From what I've experienced on my systems, this is only an issue with IE10; the login, bank security, etc. cookies aren't removed if I go back to IE9. I agree with the OP; this is really getting old!!!!!!!!

Setting a preference to "ignore" is not the same thing as excluding a detected threat from removal.

I am pretty frustrated with the inability to get NIS to stop identifying the tv guide cookie as a security issue-- as a result, I have to either constantly reset my settings for the tv guide website, or forego the security feature of NIS that removes tracking cookies-

 

The inability to identify a specific cookie as 'ok' makes NIS pretty unusable as far as protection from tracking cookies goes-- you can make your system very user unfriendly and have to reset preferences every day, or have tracking cookie protection - not both

 

I have read the posts that suggest various ways to solve this - they don't work - i have my system set to 'ask me' for cookies- it never asks anything about individual cookies -

one posting says to select the individual cookie and say 'exclude' - that feature has been gone from the product for several years- that is the whole point - NO way to individually select a cookie and tell NIS it's 'ok'

 

is anyone from Norton looking at these forums to see what issues are giving users headaches???