Are tracking cookies and MRU list harmful?

[DemonSkull]

I was wondering this for a while now because my scanner picks them up a lot. If they are harmful how would I get rid of them? Thanks.

 

[Zepherus]

Tracking cookies and MRU list generally aren't harmful... Tracking cookies are used by websites for a few things, to keep you logged in on some websites, (Im pretty sure sythe uses tracking cookies to keep you logged in, if it doesn't, rhq does to remember names you put in calcs), but they can also be used to track what your doing and such... They usually have an expire date on them but just to be on the safe side you can get rid of them once every week by going to Tools>Clear Private Data >Cookies > Ok in FireFox. MRU list is just most recently used list... Can possibly handy-cap your system if it builds up but again its usually not much of a problem.

 

[bigmacdood]

yep wut zepherus said they generally dont mess with ur comp. they just tend to store and waste space.

 

[Osmosis]

Not really, after all they're just text files.

 

[DemonSkull]

Ok, thanks.

 

[sorcey]

Yeah i get those come up in my ad-aware scan all the time i was worried for awhile lol but learned there not harmful at all it was funny because id remove em and fivem inutes later 5 more come back ><

 

[lilfuzzyrat]

Tracking cookies are used be advertising companies. The adverts display advertisements based on what web sites you have been to.

 

[Xzsz33]

They are not bad... You usually get them when you click "Remember me from this computer." and stuff like that.

 

[the batman]

ya they are mostly not harmful to your computer

 

[Mad-moose]

no their not and i suspect your using adaware se personal

get AVG free

 

[Hellriders]

Nope. Don't worry about them.

 

[Hellriders]

And Mad-Moose, are you saying that AVG is better than Ad-Aware? Because really, it's not. It's best if you use them both together.