[What Anti-Virus do you use]

What Anti-Virus do you use?

 

Prevx 3.0.5.187

[What type of Firewall do you use?]

What type of firewall do you use?

 

Linksys WRT54G2 V1,240 mhz processor, 8 mb ram, and 2 mb flash, Stateful Packet Inspection Firewall, Internet Policy Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 (WPA2), WEP, Wireless MAC Filtering

128 Bits

 

Online Armor Premium 4.0.0.45

[Flash Cookies]

I recently had an infection which I cleared up and one of the tools I used was SAS which detected a lot of cookies: Adobe Flash Tracking Cookies. How can I make ccleaner detect these? Adobe Flash does not show up in

applications.

Thank you.

 

If you use a Gecko browser, SeaMonkey or Firefox, then the BetterPrivacy extension will control and delete Flash cookies. In K-Meleon the ClearFlash extension does much the same. The old Gecko browser Flock has the BetterPrivacy extension too. Read here about Flash cookies and here and here also.

[Firefox Extensions]

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[Firefox Extensions]

Please allow me the liberty of posting extensions for the four Gecko browsers I have installed. You will see some important repeats or equivalents chosen from among, e.g. CS Lite, Cookie Safe, Permit Cookies, and Cookie Monster; all of which are good cookie managers. I use Cookie Monster and CS Lite. All save K-Meleon have BetterPrivacy to control and delete flash cookie; these are really potentially dangerous, more than cookies. For K-Meleon I use ClearFlash. Flock can use many, if not most, of Firefox extensions. If you use Flock check the Firefox addon site.

 

SeaMonkey:

 

Adblock Plus

BBCodeXtra

BetterPrivacy

ChatZilla

Cert Viewer Plus

Certificate Patrol

CS Lite

Display Mail User Agent

DOM Inspector

IsAdmin

JavaScript Debugger

Lightning

Minimize To Tray Plus

NoScript

Scribefire

Session Manager

WOT

 

 

Firefox:

 

Adblock Plus

Add Bookmark Here

BetterPrivacy

Cookie Monster

Download Statusbar

Java Console 6.0.20

Java Console 6.0.16

Java Quick Starter

Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant

Move Media Player

NoScript

RefControl

Session Manager

WOT

 

 

Flock:

 

Adblock Plus

BetterPrivacy

Certificate Patrol

CS Lite

IsAdmin

NoScript

RefControl

WorldIP

WOT

 

K-Meleon:

 

Adblock Plus

ClearFlash

LiveIP

NoScript

RefControl

UnmaskParasites

WOTRatings

Mozilla-Dictionaries

SMS-Service

ActiveX4WMP

BandwidthTester

Enforce-SavePassword

LiveIP

SuperExit-RestartForLOADER,EXE

[ATDMT]

You can within the CCleaner program itself choose which cookies to clean and which to keep.

 

Most browsers can be configured to accept some and reject others. If you use one of the Gecko browsers, SeaMonkey, Firefox, Flock, or K-Meleon, you can install Cookie Monster, CS Lite, Permit Cookies, Cookie Safe, or some other cookie management extension. I use these aforementioned Gecko browsers and use CS Lite on some and Cookie Monster on others.

 

You find more danger from Flash cookies, why I have the BetterPrivacy extension in SeaMonkey, Firefox, and Flock. I have Clearflash extension in K-Meleon. Read about flash cookies here. With the BetterPrivacy extension you can observe, manage, and delete the flash cookies. For the other browsers you can get the NirSoft program FlashCookiesView.

[Why does update link in CCleaner ignore default?]

I would guess that some URL protocol isn't associated with SeaMonkey.

 

For Win XP (Vista and 7 seem to be more limited here), you want to check Tools > Folder Options > File Types and make sure something obvious isn't associated with IE (of course, some will not be associated with SM). Check the URL protocols entries near the top of the list.

 

 

The only one not associated with SeaMonkey is

 

URLLDAP Protocol

 

"C:\Program Files\Outlook Express\wab.exe" /ldap:%1

 

But that one is about Outlook Express address book.

[Why does update link in CCleaner ignore default?]

My default browser is SeaMonkey, but when I click the link in CCleaner to check the version online both SeaMonkey and Internet Explorer 8 open. Why? How can I fix this so that only SeaMonkey opens? I've tried Set Program Access and Defaults.

[Flash Cookies (cf. PC World, Dec 2009, pg 40)]

If your browser is Firefox, Flock, or SeaMonkey you can install the BetterPrivacy extension; it removes all Flash cookie folders including the settings. You can set it to automatically delete them on opening or closing of the browser. You can protect some of them. I protect the Flash cookie that Yahoo uses for the security image at login. Go to Mozilla and check it out if you use a Gecko browser.