cookies detection

Dear Sirs,

I have an operating system XP SP3.I would like to know which are the settings for Avast 7 Free Antivirus 2012 to scan and detect cookies after browsing with Internet Explorer 8 and Google Chrome.

I am thanking you and wait for your answer.

Avast doesn’t scan for cookies - Cookies are a minor pain and some anti-spyware make a real big deal about them, in much the same way that you have in the bold coloured text. In any anti-spyware that I have ever had if it has a tracking cookie option, I have always switched it off, it is a waste of time, effort and anxiety.

If you disallow 3rd party cookies in your browser (why this isn’t a default setting is beyond me) so the only cookie which can be used/recorded are those of the site you are visiting. This puts a crimp in so called tracking cookies.

You might also consider only using/allowing session cookies and or clearing cookies when you close your browser, this removes any such data gathering activity. I use firefox CookieMonster add-on to manage cookies and that allows only sites you permit to set a cookie (and only fir that site). I don’t know if there is an equivalent for IE.

The only cookie remove any needs.

http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner

If the OP does as suggested above there won;t be any cookies for ccleaner to clean, but I think that is a default action.

However, the above measures are proactive rather than reactive e.g. after they have been set and any information gleaned before you get around to running ccleaner.