Hi In my AVG Virus Vault I have a lot of tracking cookies such as Yieldmanager, DoubleClick, Tribal Fusion, Mediaplex, Serving.sys. These are just a few. Is it safe to delete these from the virus vault?
A bit OTT.deleting them all at the end of every session is a good compromise.
Sorry but that’s a really daft idea if you are a serious internet user & regularly visit the same sites; banking, buying, gathering information, this & other Forums to name just a few & the majority of them aren’t a threat, it's visiting “moody” sites you need to watch . If you delete ALL your cookies you will have to go through the tedious log on procedure every time you visit a regularly used site. If you have a decent ISP, just mark the ones you don’t want as trash & you won’t even see them in your inbox; or, as I do, have a second (or even 3rd) E mail account you can use when visiting sites that will obviously bomb you.If I were you, I would set up your browser to at the very least delete all cookies at the end of every browsing session, it would be better to block them - but this will quickly annoy you - deleting them all at the end of every session is a good compromise.
Hmmm, ignorant am I ; your obviously a neurotic with an anxiety complex about spies & nasties intent on invading your personal space. I’m careful about my personal data & never give away more than I have to. I don’t really give a stuff about spam or anyone selling harmless details about me, they really are just wasting their time & money; at the end of the day I have a delete button. For someone as concerned about mostly harmless cookies as you seem to be, my advice would be to skip your internet PC & live a peaceful but ignorantly uniformed life.It's not a daft idea if you have some sort of password manager to encrypt/decrypt and re-enter your logins. You can think what you like, but you are ignorant
Cookies can't know your e-mail address and therefore lead to spamming, although companies dealt with who have been given your e-mail address could pass it on to others.]