Weird Tracking cookie popped up

I use mozilla and run addons that eliminate most cookies so I rarely get them. I just ran a scan and a tracking cookie popped up that I have never seen before. It was called:

 

tracking cookie: Cookie: username@m.webtrends.com

 

I know its kinda stupid to be worried about a tracking cookie but I am kind of wondering because I have never seen it before. Thank you

 


cjames8033 wrote:

I use mozilla and run addons that eliminate most cookies so I rarely get them. I just ran a scan and a tracking cookie popped up that I have never seen before. It was called:

 

tracking cookie: Cookie: username@m.webtrends.com

 

I know its kinda stupid to be worried about a tracking cookie but I am kind of wondering because I have never seen it before. Thank you

 


Hi cjames8033,

 

You are right that it is a tracking cookie.  A Google search turns this up -  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webtrends.  You should be able to block it by opening the Privacy Tab and include it in the Blocked sites list.  I hope this helps.

 

Dave.

Thank you Krusty13 for the reply.

 

I went through old scans with tracking cookies and saw this one pop up a few months ago. I have never been to that website but I guess other sites can give this tracking cookie also. Thank you again for the reply.

Thanks for the feedback.  Yep,  I downloaded Windows Live Essentials 2011 a while back and had atdmt.com tracking cookie,  also after logging in to my Google account I had doubleclick.net plus others.  Just depends,  I think,  on who companies use for marketing.

 

Dave.

> You are right that it is a tracking cookie.  A Google search turns this up -  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webtrends.  You should be able to block it by opening the Privacy Tab and include it in the Blocked sites list.  I hope this helps.

 

I have also received this tracking cookie.  I added this to my Firefox 16.0.2 Blocked sites list.  Unfortunately the username@m. gets deleted in the process and only webtrends.com is added to the Blocked sited list, so the cookie gets through.

> I have also received this tracking cookie.  I added this to my Firefox 16.0.2 Blocked sites list.  Unfortunately the username@m. gets deleted in the process and only webtrends.com is added to the Blocked sited list, so the cookie gets through.

 

Sorry, I erred in that reply. Here is a corrected version:

 

I have also received this tracking cookie.  I added this to my Firefox 16.0.2 Blocked sites list.  Unfortunately the surname@ gets deleted in the process and only m.webtrends.com is added to the Blocked sited list, so the cookie gets through.

 

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As an update, I have just added webtrends.com (without m.) to the list.  That might work, but I think that it is the lack of surname@ in the Blocked list that is causing the problem.