Mikes6

I do not know the answer to this but include this from the Wikipedia Spyware information entry: "Browser cookies" "Anti-spyware programs often report Web advertisers' HTTP cookies, the small text files that track browsing activity, as spyware. While they are not always inherently malicious, many users object to third parties using space on their personal computers for their business purposes, and many anti-spyware programs offer to remove them.[30]" Many of the so called malware programs I use remove cookies. Mikes6

My initial post was in no way a complaint; I very much like that this is happening. I did the following to verify that this is indeed happening: I downloaded an update to the anti-malware I am using for this, scanned with the anti-malware (it found 95 adware tracking cookies which I did not delete), ran CCcleaner and scanned again with the anti-malware which this time only found 1 item. CCleaner got rid of 94 adware tracking cookies. I will continue to use CCleaner and I will definitely recommend it. Thank you for your responses. Mikes6

I've found that CCleaner gets rid of anti-malware about as well as some anti-malware programs I have. Would someone please explain this? I've had 82 malwares found by an anti-malware program and CCleaner plus a notebook restart got rid of 80 of them. Thank you! Mikes6